Virtex-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit

The Virtex^®-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit integrates the high performance of the Virtex-6 FPGA family, IP building blocks, design tools, reference designs, and a serial digital/audio development board.

Developed specifically to address the rapidly evolving requirements in the broadcast market for greater bandwidth, improved jitter performance and lower power consumption, the Virtex^®-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit includes a serial digital audio and video connectivity FPGA mezzanine card (FMC).

Quickly evaluate and integrate SD/HD/3G-SDI, AES Audio and other interfaces into your broadcast designs.

Virtex-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit Key Features

FPGA: XC6VLX240T-1FFG1156
Configuration
- Onboard configuration circuitry (USB to JTAG) 128 MB platform flash XL
- 32 MB parallel (BPI) flash
- System ACE 2 G compact flash (CF) card
Communications and networking
- 10/100/1000 tri-speed Ethernet (GMII, RGMII, SGMII, MII)
- SFP transceiver connector
- GTX port (TX, RX) with four SMA connectors
- USB To UART bridge
- USB host port and USB peripheral port
- PCI express x8 edge connector (card supports up to x4 Gen2 with Virtex-6 LX240T-1 silicon)
Memory
- DDR3 SO-DIMM (512 MB)
- BPI linear flash (32 MB) (also available for configuration)
- IIC EEPROM (8 Kb)
Clocking
- 200 MHz oscillator (differential)
- Oscillator socket (single-ended)
- SMA connectors for external clock (differential)
- GTX reference clock port with 2 SMA connectors
Input/Output and expansion ports on ML605 base platform
- 16x2 LCD character display
- DVI output
- System monitor
- User push buttons (5), DIP switches (13), LEDs (13)
- User GPIO with two SMA connectors
- Two FMC expansion ports
• High Pin Count (HPC) (eight GTX transceivers; 160 SelectIOs)
• Low Pin Count (LPC) (one GTX transceiver; 68 SelectIOs)
Input/Output and expansion ports on CT-FMC-BRCST-1 FMC card
- Four triple rate SDI (SD/HD/3G-SDI) Rx supporting SMPTE-259M, SMPTE-292M, and SMPTE-424M
- Four triple rate SDI (SD/HD/3G-SDI) Tx supporting SMPTE-259M, SMPTE-292M, and SMPTE-424M
- Two AES3 audio Rx
- Two AES3 audio Tx
- One AES10 audio Rx
- One AES10 audio Tx
- One video sync input
- One further FMC expansion port
• High Pin Count (HPC) (eight GTX transceivers; 160 SelectIOs)
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

Virtex-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit Content

Boards
- ROHS compliant ML605 base board featuring a Virtex-6 LX240T FPGA
- Broadcast connectivity FMC daughter card from Cook Technologies
• 4 channel SD/HD/3G-SDI Tx and Rx
• 2 stereo channel AES3 Tx and Rx
• Single stereo channel AES10 Tx and Rx
• Genlock input and clock cleaner modules (2)
Tools
- ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition. (Device-locked to the Virtex-6 LX240T FPGA)
Documentation
- Hardware setup guide – easy to follow instructions for getting your development board up and running in minutes so you can begin evaluation
- 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
Cables/Power supply
- USB cables(2)
- BNC-BNC coaxial cables (4)
- DVI-VGA adapter
- Ethernet cable
- Universal 12 V power supply – wall adaptor or ATX
- Voltage and current measurement capability of 2.5 V, 1.5 V, and 1.2 V, 1.0 V supplies
Reference designs and demonstrations
- Triple rate SDI (SD/HD/3G-SDI) - pre-validated reference designs for transmit, receive and pass through
- Base reference design interface and demonstration
- Board diagnostic demonstration
- PCI Express Gen2 (x4) test design
- PCI Express Gen 1 (x8) test design
- DDR3 memory interface design
- ChipScope pro serial IO toolkit IBERT transceiver test design
- Multi boot reference design, featuring fail safe
Other
- USB dlash drive - all reference designs, demos, and documents are delivered on a USB stick