proFPGA quad V7 Prototyping System
Technical highlights
- Scaleable up to 48 M ASIC gates capacity on one board
- Modular with up to 4 x Xilinx Virtex XC7V2000T FPGAs
- Up to 4336 signals for I/O and inter FPGA connection
- Up to 32 individually adjustable voltage regions
- Up to 1.8 Gbps/12.5 Gbps point to point speed
ASIC Prototyping Solution
Product Summary
The proFPGA quad V7 system is a complete, scalable, and modular multi FPGA Prototyping solution, which fulfills highest needs in the area of FPGA based Prototyping. It addresses customers who need a scalable and most flexible high performance ASIC Prototyping solution for early software development and real time system verification. The innovative system concept and technologies offer highest flexibility and reusability for several projects, which guarantees the best return on invest.
Highest Flexibility
The system architecture is based on a modular and scalable system concept. The FPGAs are assembled on dedicated FPGA modules, which will be plugged on the proFPGA motherboard. This offers the highest flexibility to use for example different FPGA types in one system or to scale a system in increments of one FPGA. Besides the user has nearly 100% access to all available I/Os of the FPGA, which gives him maximum freedom regarding the FPGA interconnection structure. Hence the prototyping system can be adapted the best way to meet the demands of any user design. Furthermore the system offers a total of 32 extension sites on the top and bottom site for standard proFPGA or user specific extension boards like DDR-3 memory, high performance interface, interconnection or adaptor boards.
Maximum Performance
The well designed boards of the proFPGA system are optimized and trimmed to guarantee best signal integrity and to achieve highest performance. The high speed boards together with the specific high speed connectors allow a maximum point to point speed of up to 1.8 Gbps over the standard FPGA I/O and up to 12.5 Gbps over the MGT of the FPGA. This fast performance combined with the high interconnection flexibility offer the designer an maximum speed of his design running in the proFPGA system.
Biggest Capacity
Equipped with up to 4 Xilinx Virtex 7 XCV2000T FPGA modules, the proFPGA quad system can handle up to 48 M ASIC gates alone on one board. Due to the fact, that multiple proFPGA quad or duo systems can be stacked or connected together, there is unlimited scalability and no theoretical maximum in capacity.
Extensive User Comfort
The proFPGA prototyping system provides an extensive set of features and tools, like remote system configuration, integrated self and performance test, automatic board detection, automatic I/O voltage programming, system scan and safety mechanism, which extraordinarily simplifies the usage of the FPGA based system. The proFPGA system uses an innovative dual-stage clock generator architecture. Each proFPGA motherboard is capable of distributing up to 8 true asynchronous master beats. Each master beat may be used to derive a virtually unlimited number of clock domains inside the FPGAs. With the unique proFPGA synchronization scheme, clock domains and associated reset signals can be generated fully phase-synchronous over all FPGAs on the motherboard and over multiple motherboards.
Specification
FPGSs
- Up to 4 Xilinx Virtex XC7V2000T FPGA Modules
Capacity
- Up to 48 M ASIC gates on one board (12 M ASIC gates per FPGA Module)
FPGA-internal memory
- Up to 186,048 kbits on one board (46,512 kbits per FPGA Module)
Signaling rate
- Up to 1.8 Gbps (standard I/O)/ 12.5 Gbps (MGT)
Extension sites
- Up to 32 Extension sites with High Performance (up to 21 Gbps) connectors
I/O resources
- Overall 4336 signals for I/O and inter FPGA connection
- 1084 free I/Os per FPGA Module
- 4x148 I/Os to top side connectors
- 3x148 and 1x48 I/Os to bottom side connectors
- Single-ended or differential
High Speed I/O transceivers
- 64 dedicated MGTs running up to 12.5 Gbps
- 16 MGTs (12.5 Gbps) per FPGA Module
FPGAs interconnections
- Flexible via high-speed interconnection boards or cables
Voltage regions
- 32individually adjustable I/O voltage regions
- 8 individually adjustable voltage regions per FPGA Module
- Stepless from 1.2 up 1.8V
- Automated detection of daughter card and adjustment of right voltage
Configuration
- With host software via Ethernet, USB 2.0, PCIe or standalone over USB stick
Clocking
- 256 differential external clock inputs
- 64 differential clock inputs per FPGA Module
- 8 differential clock inputs per connector
- 4 external clock/sync inputs/outputs over HF SMA connectors
- X- local clocks
- 8 global clock and sync signal inputs per motherboard
- X fully synchronous derived clocks with sync signals
Data exchange
- On board DMBI (Device Message Box Interface)
- Data exchange rate:
- Ethernet (up to 100 Mbps)
- USB
- PCIe (up to 4 Gbps)
Power
- External (optional) ATX Power Supply (12 V, 24 - 35 A output)
Dimensions
- 11.81" x 0.95" x 12.20" / 300 mm x 24 mm x 310 mm (width x height x depth)
- 2.5 kg weight
System Architecture
Configurations
| proFPGA quad V7 FPGA Prototyping System Configurations | ||||
| proFPGA quad V7 FM1 | proFPGA quad V7 FM2 | proFPGA quad V7 FM3 | proFPGA quad V7 FM4 | |
| Extension Sites | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 |
| FPGA Modules | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| FPGAType | Xilinx Virtex XC7V2000T | Xilinx Virtex XC7V2000T | Xilinx Virtex XC7V2000T | Xilinx Virtex XC7V2000T |
| Logic Capacity (ASIC Gates) | 12M | 24M | 36M | 48M |
| FPGA Memory | 46,512kbits | 93,024kbits | 139,536kbits | 186,048kbits |
| I/O Resources | 1100 | 2200 | 3300 | 4400 |
| High Speed I/O Transceivers | 16 | 32 | 48 | 64 |
| Adjustable Voltage Regions | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 |
| Interconnections | flexible | flexible | flexible | flexible |
| Clock Inputs | 64 + 4 | 124 + 4 | 192 + 4 | 256 + 4 |
| Global Clocks | 8/x-derived | 8/x-derived | 8/x-derived | 8/x-derived |
| Order Code | PROF-DUO-VUS-FM1 | PROF-DUO-VUS-FM2 | PROF-DUO-VUS-FM3 | PROF-DUO-VUS-FM4 |
Technologies
FPGA Mixing Technology (FMT)
- Easy plugging and unplugging of FPGA modules on motherboard
- Various FPGAs from different vendors can be used
- Automatic scanning and detection of FPGA modules, when plugged
- Different FPGA configurations are handled and controlled by profpga Messenger
Smart Stacking Technology (SST)
- Automatic Board detection when boards are plugged
- Automatic and right I/O voltage setting and programming with conflict detection
- Integrated interconnection self and performance test
- Smart I/O resource management. No I/O resources get lost or get blocked by connectors
Device Message Box Interface (DMBI)
- High speed, low latency data exchange system
- Enables various use modes like remote system configuration and monitoring and debugging
- Up to 3.5 Gbps data transfer rate
- Runs over USB, Ethernet or PCIe
Advanced Clock Management (ACM)
- The proFPGA system uses an innovative dual-stage clock generator architecture. Each proFPGA motherboard is capable of distributing up to 8 true asynchronous master beats. Each master beat may be used to derive a virtually unlimited number of clock domains inside the FPGAs. With the unique proFPGA synchronization scheme, clock domains and associated reset signals can be generated fully phase-synchronous over all FPGAs on the motherboard and over multiple motherboards.