Virtex-5 Board and Kit Documentation

This user guide introduces several designs that demonstrate Virtex®-5 device features, including RocketIO™ GTP transceiver capabilities, using the ML505 (LXT) and ML506 (SXT) Evaluation Platforms.

The ML505/ML506 Getting Started Tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and using the Virtex®-5 ML505 and ML506 Evaluation Platforms. These boards come with a number of pre-installed demonstrations. This tutorial guides you through these demonstrations and provides instructions to run them on the ML505/ML506 Evaluation Platforms.

The ML50x boards enable designers to investigate and experiment with features of Virtex™-5 FPGAs. This user guide describes the features and operation of the ML505 (LXT), ML506 (SXT), and ML507 (FXT) Evaluation Platforms.

This user guide describes the features and operation of the Virtex®-5 LXT, SXT, and FXT prototype platforms and describes how to configure chains of FPGAs and serial PROMs.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and using the Virtex™-5 ML501 evaluation platform. The ML501 platform comes with a number of pre-installed demonstration and set-up programs. These programs are available on the System ACE interface, Platform Flash, and SPI Flash. This document guides designers through set-up and demonstration procedures.

This user guide introduces several designs that demonstrate Virtex™-5 LX device features using the ML501 Evaluation Platform.

This user guide provides a detailed description of each component and peripheral available on the ML501 Evaluation Platform. The ML501 board is a low-cost, entry-level platform for evaluation of Virtex™-5 LX FPGAs.

This user guide describes the features and operation of the Virtex®-5 LXT and FXT FPGAs series of RocketIO™ characterization platforms, which includes the ML521, ML523, and ML525 boards.

This user guide describes the features and operation of the Virtex®-5 LX FPGA prototype platform and provides instructions to configure chains of FPGAs and serial PROMs.

This user guide describes the Virtex®-5 FPGA ML550 Networking Interfaces board, which is the heart of the Virtex-5 FPGA ML550 Source-Synchronous Interfaces Tool Kit.

This user guide describes the Virtex™-5 FPGA ML555 Development Kit for PCI and PCI Express designs.

This user guide describes the Virtex®-5 FPGA ML561 Memory Interfaces Development Board, which is the heart of the Virtex-5 FPGA ML561 Memory Interfaces Tool Kit. The tool kit provides a complete development platform to interface with external memory devices for designing and verifying applications based on the Virtex-5 LXT Platform.

The XGI SuperClock Module User Guide provides an overview of functionality, operation, and configuration of the SuperClock module add-on board.