X5-COM FPGA BOARD

Features

• Four communications ports Gigabit Ethernet, Aurora, Infiniband,
• Serial Rapid IO (requires supporting IP in FPGA)
• Xilinx Virtex5 SX95T or FX100T FPGA
• SX95T: 640 DSP MACs
• FX100T: 2 PowerPC+ 256 DSP MACs
• Industry-standard SFP modules support up to 4.125 Gbps over
• Copper or Fiber Optic cables (rates depend on FPGA speed and cable)
• 512MB DDR2 DRAM supporting 4 GB/s transfer rates
• 4MB QDR-II SRAM for computations
• 4 Rocket IO links for data plane using P16
• >1 GB/s, 8-lane PCI Express Host Interface
• Conduction cooling and thermal monitoring
• XMC Module (75x150 mm)
• Adapters for Desktop, CompactPCI, and Cabled PCI Express

Applications

• Ethernet packet processing
• Communications test equipment
• FPGA computing node
• Wireless Remote Radio Head IF Processor for OBSAI
• Real-time data encryption for Ethernet
• Remote IO interfacing
• High Speed Data Recording and Playback
• IP development

Overview

The X5-COM is an XMC IO module featuring four 4.125 Gbps serial ports directly connected to a Virtex5 FPGA computing core with DRAM and SRAM memory, and PCI Express host interface. With supporting IP, the X5-COM is ideal for computational intensive applications for Ethernet packet processing, encryption and test.

A Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA with 512MB DDR2 DRAM and 4MB QDR-II SRAM memory provides a very high performance computing core. Either the SXT95 or FXT100 Virtex5 FPGA is available. The FPGA has four Ethernet MACs and 2 PowerPCs (FX100T) in the FPGA logic array.

The X5 XMC modules couple Innovative's powerful Velocia architecture with a high performance, 8-lane PCI Express interface that provides over 1 GB/s sustained transfer rates to the host. Private links to host cards with > 800 MB/s capacity using P16 are provided for system integration.

The X5 family can be fully customized using VHDL and MATLAB using the FrameWork Logic toolset. The MATLAB BSP supports real-time hardware-in-the-loop development using the graphical, block diagram Simulink environment with Xilinx System Generator.

Software tools for host development include C++ libraries and drivers for Windows and Linux. Application examples demonstrating the module features and use are provided.