HSS-8324 Optical FPGA Board

The Conduant HSS-8324 Optical FPGA board provides the user with a hardware platform that is able to sustain full-duplex high-bandwidth transfers through its 8-lane Gen3 PXI Express (PXIe) interface and its 24-lane optical interface. The PXIe interface provides a theoretical maximum throughput of 8 GB/s (simultaneous in and out).

The HSS-8324 provides both 8 GB of high-speed DDR3 SDRAM and 8 MB of QDR II+ SRAM. At the center of the design is a AMD Kintex Ultrascale (XCKU095-FFVB1760-2-E) FPGA which interconnects all ports and other devices while supplying the additional resources that are available within the FPGA. Other models of Kintex or Virtex Ultrascale FPGAs may be available.

With up to 48 optical fibers available, the board can be used for numerous applications that require high-speed data connectivity. Each lane of optical fiber (transmit or receive) can operate independently. The dual Interlaken cores available in the FPGA can be used to create dual 150 Gbps Interlaken connections (12 x 12.5 Gbps). Other optical protocols (i.e. Serial FPDP, Aurora, etc.) can also be used and a copper cabling option is available.

The board includes a microcontroller for power management and an on-board I2C interface connecting the uC, FPGA, and optical transceivers.

For users who need more FPGA resources than are available in the XCKU095-FFVB1760-2-E, the pinout has been chosen to support migration to other, pin-compatible Virtex/Kintex Ultrascale components.