The Virtex®-7 FPGA VC709 Connectivity Kit is a 40Gb/s platform for high-bandwidth and high-performance applications containing all the necessary hardware, tools and IP to power quickly through your evaluation and development of connectivity systems. This includes a 40Gb/s targeted reference design featuring PCI Express Gen 3, a DMA IP core from Northwest Logic, 10GBase-R, AXI, and a Virtual FIFO memory controller interfacing to an external DDR3 memory. To control and monitor this design, the kit includes a connectivity GUI built on Fedora Live OS which includes all the software drivers. Additionally, this kit contains two fiber optic cables and four transceiver modules leveraged by this design.

• 40Gb/s Connectivity platform for high-bandwidth and high-performance applications using Virtex-7 VX690T FPGAs

• Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs

• Demonstrates an Featuring 10GBase-R interfacing to external DDR3 memory

• Advanced memory interface with 2 4GB DDR3 SODIM Memory up to 933MHz / 1866Mbps

• Enabling serial connectivity with PCIe Gen3x8, 4 SFP+, SMA Pairs, and UART

• Supports embedded processing with MicroBlaze, soft 32bit RISC

• Develop networking and other serial applications with 4 SFP/SFP+ ports

• Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface

Clocking

• Fixed Oscillator with differential 200MHz output

• Used as the “system” clock for the FPGA

• Fixed Oscillator with differential 233.33MHz output

• Used as the "memory" clock

• User Programmable (IIC) Differential Oscillator (Range: 10MHz - 810 MHz, 156.250 MHz default)

• Differential SMA clock input

• Differential SMA GTH reference clock input

• Jitter attenuated clock

• Used to support CPRI/OBSAI applications that perform clock recovery from a user-supplied SFP/SFP+ module

Communication & Networking

• 4x SFP/SFP+ cages

• 10x GTH ports to FMC

• UART To USB Bridge

• PCI Express 8-lane edge connector

Memory

• DDR3 SODIMM (qty 2) - each with 4GB up to 933MHz / 1866Mbps

• BPI Parallel NOR Flash: 32MB (256Mb)

• IIC EEPROM: 1KB (8Kb)

Configuration

• Onboard JTAG configuration circuitry to enable configuration over USB

• BPI Parallel NOR Flash: 32MB (256Mb)

Expansion Connectors

• FMC-HPC (Partially Populated) connector

• GTH Transceivers (x10) , 160 single-ended or 80 differential (34 LA & 46 HA) user defined signals

• VADJ fixed at 1.8 volts

Control & I/O

• User Push Buttons (x5)

• User DIP Switch (8-position)

• User LEDs (x8)

Power

• AC Power adapter (12V) or ATX