• 8-lane PCI Express daughter card with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA
    • LX50T, LX85T, LX110T, SX50T, FX70T
    • LX155T, SX95T, FX100T (with manual configuration via JTAG)
  • PCIe hosting of DINI ASIC emulation products (with DNMEG_CBL-D)
  • PCIe peripherals to DINI ASIC emulation products (with DNMEG_CBL-U)
  • Emulation of PCIe to PCIe bridges
    • Dual 1/4/8-lane PCIe to 1/4/8-lane PCIe bridge
    • Triple 1/4/8-lane PCIe bridge
  • 100% FPGA resources available for user application
  • Nearly 660k ASIC gates (LSI measure) with LX110T
  • DDR2 SODIMMs (250MHz)
    • 64-bit data width, 250MHz operation
    • PC2-3200/PC2-4200
    • Addressing/power to support 4GB in each socket
    • DDR2 Verilog/VHDL reference design provided (no charge)
    • DDR2 SODIMM data transfer rate: 25.6Gb/s
    • Alternate pin compatible memory cards available (consult factory for availability):
      • QDR SSRAM, FLASH, SSRAM, RLDRAM, Mictor, USB PHY, et al.
  • Flexible, abundant clock resources
    • 3 board-level clocks configurable clocks based on the Si5326
    • 2 stuffable low-jitter fixed oscillators
    • 2 external differential clock inputs
  • Mount to DINI products with 400-pin MEG-Array connectors
    • 93 LVDS pairs + clocks (or 186 single-ended)
    • 450MHz on all signals with LVDS (slower when used single-ended)
    • Reset, presence detect
    • Pin multiplexing to/from motherboard using ISERDES/OSERDES and LVDS (up to 10x)
    • Supplied power rails (fused):
      • +12V (24W max)
      • +5V (10W max)
      • +3.3V (10W max)
    • Reference designs for integrated I/O pad ISERDES/OSERDES
    • Source synchronous clocking
  • Fast and Painless FPGA configuration with integrated PROM
  • RS232 port for embedded uP debug
  • Mictor for logic analyzer debug
  • Battery socket for configuration bitfile encryption
  • Full support for embedded logic analyzers via JTAG interface
    • ChipScope, ChipScope Pro and other third party solutions
  • Enough status LED’s to pull over a speeding Porsche
  • Gigabit serial I/O interfaces using GTP transceivers:
    • 1 Small form factor (SFP) modules
      • 1x Fibre Channel
      • 1G Ethernet
      • SATA
    • SMA connectors for off-board cabling to 4 TX/RX channels
      • PCI Express
      • SATA
      • Serial RapidI/O
      • Aurora
    • IPASS for x1, x4, x8 PCI Express
    • Clocking options for standard serial communication protocols
    • Ability to use embedded Ethernet MAC with SFP and SMA connectors.
    • Display port x4 source and sink

  • Block Diagram [PDF - 324KB]
  • MEG Array Daughter Card Interface Description [PDF - 660KB]
  • Daughter Card Compatibility Guide [PDF - 63KB]
  • Downloads Page

 

DNMEG_V5T_PCIE
Daughtercard form-factor
Virtex-5T Based
ASIC Prototyping Engine

The DNMEG_V5T_PCIE allows an additional PCI Express interface to be added to any Dini Group FPGA board, including the DN9000K10. It connects to a base-board using the very high-speed MEG 400 daughter card Interface. The DNMEG_V5T_PCIE can also be used stand-alone.

The FPGA aboard the DNMEG_V5T_PCIE is a Xilinx Virtex 5 LX110T. This FPGA can be substituted with an SX95T, or the upcoming ?XT series with unspecified and unmentioned capabilities. The LX110T contains 69K flip-flops, and can comfortably emulate a design with over 600K gates.

Currently, the board is fully compliant with PCI Express electrical specification 1.1, however in 2008, it will be updated to support revision 2.0 (5.0Gb speeds). The board can support 2, 4-lane connections, or 1 8-lane connection. The PCI Express is connected by the standard PCI Express cable. This cable can be plugged into any PCI Express-capable motherboard, or into any other PCI Express cable peripheral (including another DNMEG V5T PCIE board).

The board allows further use of the RocketIO MGT serial transceivers of the Virtex 5 series with it's one channel SFP (contact us about SFP+), 3 channel of SMA and one complete DisplayPort connector.

A DDR2 SODIMM is provided with 4 GB/sec bandwidth (250Mhz DDR). This connector is also compatible with modules that can provide a variety of memory types including Flash, SRAM, DDR1, DDR3, RLDRAM, connectors, and who knows what else.

The board includes a DDR2 controller in VHDL and Verilog, example RocketIO implementations in VHDL and Verilog. For the purpose of connecting PCI Express to a base-board, we can also provide a complete PCI Express endpoint and driver.


Specs of FPGAs Avaliable on the DNMEG_V5T_PCIe




Note: Product comes with iPASS 4-lane PCIe cable cages on connectors, not shown in pictures.


DNMEG_CBL Downstream, recommended accessory