Spartan-6 SP605 Evaluation Kit

Xilinx Spartan-6 SP605 Evaluation Kit

The Spartan®-6 FPGA SP605 Evaluation Kit delivers all the basic components of the Xilinx Base Targeted Design Platform in one package. It provides a flexible environment for system design and provides customers reference design and examples on how to leverage features such as high-speed serial transceivers, PCI Express®, DVI, and/or DDR3. It includes an industry-standard FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) connector for future scaling and customization to specific applications and markets.

The kit integrates hardware, software, IP, and a pre-verified reference design so development can begin right out of the box.

Buy the SP605 Evaluation Kit online and get started immediately with a full-seat of Xilinx ISE® Design Suite: Logic Edition device locked to the Spartan-6 XC6SLX45T device. While your shipment is being processed, you will be sent an E-mail with instructions on how to immediately download this software.

Key Features

FPGA: XC6SLX45T FGG484-3CES Spartan-6

Configuration:

Onboard JTAG configuration circuitry
128MB Platform Flash XL
Quad SPI Flash 64MB
16MB Parallel (BPI) Flash
System ACE 2G Compact FLASH (CF) Card
JTAG

Memory:

DDR3 Component Memory 1Gb
16MB Parallel (BPI) Flash (Also available for configuration)
IIC 8Kb IIC EEPROM

Communications and Networking

10/100/1000 Tri-Speed Ethernet
SFP transceiver connector
GTX port (TX, RX) with four SMA connectors
USB To UART Bridge
PCI Express x1 Edge Connector

Expansion Connectors:

FMC-LPC connector (1 GTP Transceiver, 68 single-ended or 34 differential user defined signals)
User GPIO with two SMA connectors
4 User I/O (Digilent 2x6 Header)

Clocking:

200 MHz Oscillator (Differential)
Oscillator socket (Single-Ended)
SMA Connectors for external clock (Differential)
GTX Reference Clock port with 2 SMA connectors

Display:

Video - DVI / VGA
16x2 LCD character display
4X LEDs

Control:

2X Push Buttons
4X DIP Switches

Power 12 V wall adapter or ATX

Voltage and current measurement capability of 2.5 V, 1.5 V, and 1.2 V, 1.0 V supplies

Kit Content

ROHS compliant SP605 Base Board including the XC6SLX45T-FGG484 -3CES FPGA

ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition (device-locked for the Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA)

Includes Planahead™ Design Analysis Tool – Streamline your design process between synthesis and place-and-route as well as providing intuitive IO planning.
Includes Timing Driven Place and Route – Delivers optimal quality of results with advanced implementation algorithms.
Include SmartGuilde™ - Delivers industry’s fastest incremental implement runtimes.
Includes SmartXplorer Technology – Leverage computing resources for optimal quality of results.
ISE Simulator – Integrated RTL simulation environment.
Includes ChipScope™ Pro and ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit – Perform on-chip design verification for logic and serial connectivity analysis and measurement.

Documentation

Hardware Setup Guide – Easy to follow instructions for getting your development board up and running in minutes so you can begin evaluation
Getting Started Guide – Complete instructions enabling you to evaluate and modify designs included in your evaluation kit.
Hardware Users Guide – Detailed guide providing information about the hardware included in your kit.
Reference Design and Example User Guide – Instructions for using the included reference design and design examples included in your kit.
Schematics and PCB files – Information you need to accelerate layout and development of your board based upon best practices.

Cables

Universal 12 V power supply
Two USB cables – enabling BIST and device configuration
One Ethernet cable – host communication to the base reference design interface
One DVI-VGA adapter – standard interface for video display

Reference Designs and Demonstration

Base Reference Design – Design that includes gigabit host communication, DDR3 memory interface, example programmable processing and serial loopback optimized for the Spartan-6 FPGA family.
Base Reference Design Interface and Demonstration – Evaluate different implementations and see results in this convenient, easy to use interface

Examples Designs and Demonstrations