Products

Board Specifications

FPGA

• Up to 1.9 million logic elements
• Up to 132 Mb of embedded memory
• Up to 4 integrated PCIe cores
• Up to 1,800 DSP slices with 27×18 multipliers

• Xilinx UltraScale FPGA
  • Virtex UltraScale125/160/190

• Multi-gigabit transceivers
  • 16x GTY at 32.75 Gbps and 32x GTH at 16 Gbps

On-Board Memory

• Flash memory for booting FPGA

Optional DIMM Memory

• 4 DIMM sites, each supporting:
  • Up to 64 GBytes DDR4 x72 with ECC
  • Up to 144 Mbits QDR-IV x18 or x36
  • Up to 576 Mbits QDR-II x18

PCIe Interface

• Two x8 Gen1, Gen2, Gen3 interfaces direct to FPGA (One x8 interface in a standard slot; two x8 interfaces requires bifurcated slot)
• Serial Expansion Port can be used for two additional x8 interfaces

USB Header

• Micro USB port (USB 2.0) for debug and programming FPGA and Flash

QSFP Cages

• 4 QSFP28 (zQSFP) cages on front panel connected directly to FPGA via 16 GTY transceivers
• Each supports 100GbE, 40GbE, 4x 25GbE, or 4x 10GbE and can be combined for 400GbE
• Backward compatible with QSFP and can be optionally adapted for use as SFP+

Serial Expansion Port

• Expansion interface to FPGA via 16x GTH transceivers (optional; requires second slot)

Timestamping

• 1 PPS input
• Reference clock input

Board Management Controller

• Voltage, current, temperature monitoring
• Power sequencing and reset
• Field upgrades
• FPGA configuration and control
• Clock configuration
• I2C bus access
• USB 2.0 and JTAG access
• Voltage overrides

Size

• 3/4-length, standard-height PCIe dual slot card
• 241mm x 111.15mm
• Max. component height: 34.79mm dual slot

Development Tools

System Development

• BittWorks II Toolkit – host, command, and debug tools for BittWare hardware; Matlab API; source code porting kit also available

FPGA Development

• FPGA Development Kit
  • Physical interface components
  • Board, I/O, and timing constraints
  • Example projects
  • Software components and drivers

• Xilinx Tools
  • Vivado® Design Suite
  • USB to JTAG converter