Vivado Board Definitions News Training Contact Sales Description Specification HES-US-2640 Prototyping and Emulation Main Board Capacity Aldec’s extra large capacity board that features Xilinx UltraScale FPGA technology contains six XCVU440 logic modules and is the most advanced one piece PCB prototyping board in the market. It is targeted to high speed physical prototyping and emulation of complex ASIC and SoC designs. The board provides estimated capacity of 158 Million gates and is easily extendable via backplane and daughter card non-proprietary connectors (BPX & FMC). Three of six UltraScale FPGA modules are connected with six DDR4 SO-DIMM slots to support up to 48 GB of aggregated memory. Larger capacity of 633 Million gates can be achieved with four HES-US-2640 boards connected in the backplane board HES7BPX4. Highest I/O count packages of UltraScale devices and proper on-board traces routing assure reliable LVDS and GTH transfers up to the device inherent limits. Clocking Very precisely designed clocking block provides 5 length aligned global clock lines routed to each FPGA device. It provides multiple configuration options due to integrating different oscillators, programmable clock synthesizers and crosspoint switch multiplexers. The global clock network can be also driven from external sources via dedicated SMA connectors as well as from backplane and daughter card sockets. The global clock network is based on LVDS signalling to assure high level of signals integrity and immunity to distractions. Complementary to global clocks there are separate clock oscillators dedicated to GTH links and DDR memories. Hosting & Interfaces The board configuration and monitoring controller is preloaded in a dedicated FPGA (Spartan-6) and provides USB based management interface that is used by Hes.Asic.Proto board configuration and management software available on Linux and Windows host PC. Additional Virtex-7 FPGA can be used as a host bridge with standard interfaces like PCIe x8 Gen3, USB 3.0, QSFP+ and SATA. Ready to use, PCIe host controller is preloaded in Virtex-7 FPGA and the corresponding HES PCIe driver is included. Usage of this host controller is facilitated due to Proto-AXI interface module IP that is based on AMBA AXI standard and accompanying high abstraction level C++ API. Besides physical prototyping this board can be reused for HES emulation applications like simulation acceleration or co-emulation with virtual models. BLOCK DIAGRAM HES-US-2640 Prototyping and Emulation Main Board FPGA & Capacity Main FPGA: 6 Virtex UltraScale XCVU440 (FLGA2892 - 1456 I/O, 48 GTH) ASIC Gates estimated for 60% of FPGA utilization 158 Million Gates single board 633 Million Gates with four boards in a backplane Larger configurations are customized upon request Host FPGA: Virtex-7 XC7VX690T (FFG1926) Debug FPGA: Kintex-7 XC7K325T (FFG900) Flexible Clocking Flexible global clock network connected to each UltraScale and Virtex-7 FPGA 5 global, low-skew, length aligned clock lines with fanout buffers Configurable with PLLs & Crosspoint switch muxes. Precision any-frequency clock synthesizer (Si5326) LVDS crosspoint switch (DS10CP154A) On-board LVDS clock sources Oscillators: 192, 250, 300, 400, 500 MHz External clock sources 5 clocks from dedicated FMC connector 4 clocks from backplane connector 6 clocks from SMA connectors 1 feedback clock line from each UltraScale FPGA (only in rev2) Global reference clock connected to all FPGAs (fixed at 200MHz) GTH reference clocks (UltraScale and Virtex-7) Dedicated GTH oscillators (fixed at 200 or 156.25 MHz) External from SMA connectors Separate reference oscillators for each DDR (fixed at 200MHz) 192 clock I/O of all UltraScale FPGAs available on connectors 80 DIFF clock lines on backplane connector 112 DIFF clock lines on FMC daughter card connectors Connectivity & Expandability Full size BPX backplane connector High speed (25 Gbps) connectors: MOLEX 76150 series Backplane to UltraScale aggregated connections 720 I/O (360 DIFF) - standard GPIO optimized for LVDS & TDM 40 GTH - high speed serial I/O 240 HR I/O (120 DIFF) - high voltage range I/O up to 3.3V Daughter card connectors (FMC-HPC) Standard FPGA Mezzanine Card connectors Compliant with ANSI/VITA 57.1 FMC Standard 8 FMC-HPC sockets connected to UltraScale FPGAs FMC to UltraScale aggregated connections 1280 I/O (640 DIFF) - standard GPIO optimized for LVDS 48 GTH - high speed serial I/O Inter-FPGA connections UltraScale interconnections 2518 I/O (1187 DIFF) - standard GPIO optimized for LVDS & TDM 115 GTH - high speed serial I/O UltraScale to Virtex-7 host FPGA connections 286 I/O (137 DIFF) - standard GPIO optimized for LVDS 30 GTH high speed serial I/O 89 I/O common/debug bus 3 common lines GPIO & Misc Goldpin connectors 160 I/O standard GPIO 40 HR I/O (20 DIFF) - high voltage range I/O 72 LEDs 36 switches Memory Resources Up to 48 GB of DDR4 6 DDR4 SO-DIMM slots connected to 3 UltraScale FPGA 2 slots and up to 16 GB per FPGA Memories connected to Virtex-7 DDR3 SO-DIMM slot SPI Flash, NAND Flash Micro-SD slot for memory to store FPGA configuration bit-files Interfaces & Hosting Host interfaces at Virtex-7 Two independent PCIe ports Fixed PCIe x8 gen3 Configurable PCIe x16 / x8 gen3 USB 3.0 Device 2x SATA Gb Ethernet QSFP+ Board configuration and FPGA programming Aldec’s Board Configuration Controller loaded in Spartan-6 FPGA Programming from Host via USB 2.0 (Aldec Hes.Asic.Proto application) via JTAG (Xilinx utilities) Programming from Micro-SD card
