Virtex-5 FXT PCI Express Development Kit

Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FXT PCI Express Development Kit

The Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT Development Kit provides a complete development platform for designing and verifying applications based on the Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA family. The kit enables designers to prototype high-performance, multi-gigabit serial transceiver based designs with ease, while providing expandability and customization through the EXP expansion slot.

The Virtex-5 FXT system board is available with the FX70T or FX100T device (XC5Vxxx-2FF1136). Serial gigabit transceiver interfaces (GTXs) provide connection to the on-chip PCI Express x8 hard macro, two SFP connectors, and a CX4 connector with up to 10 Gbps data throughput. The system board includes DDR2 SDRAM, 32M x 64 DDR2 SODIMM socket, Flash memory, two 10/100/1000 Ethernet PHYs, and a serial port.

Other board features include a USB port, two programmable LVDS clocks, user switches, and LEDs. The board also provides a full EXP expansion slot, providing a total of 168 high-speed, single-ended and differential user I/O. EXP modules can be easily added to the board for additional application specific functions.

Key Features

Xilinx XC5VFX70T-2FF1136 or XC5VFX100T-2FF1136 Virtex-5 FPGA
Eight LEDs
One 8-position DIP switch
Four push-button switches
Two programmable LVDS clock generators
On-board 100 MHz LVTTL oscillator
On-board LVTTL oscillator socket
EXP expansion slot
Multiple GTP Interfaces
- PCI Express x8 interface
- Two SFP connectors
- CX4
- Two general-purpose GTX ports via EXP expansion slot
PCIe Gen2 support via soft PCIe Gen2 IP core
64 MB DDR2 SDRAM
256 MB DDR2 SODIMM socket
32 MB Parallel Flash
16 MB Xilinx Platform Flash XL
RS-232 serial port
Cypress USB 2.0
Two GbE PHYs
System ACE™
JTAG interface
CPU Trace and Debug ports
BPI configuration support