Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit
by: Xilinx, Inc
The Kintex®-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit includes all the basic components of hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs including a targeted design enabling high-performance serial connectivity and advanced memory interfacing.
Overview
Product Description
The Kintex®-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit includes all the basic components of hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs including a targeted design enabling high-performance serial connectivity and advanced memory interfacing. The included pre-verified reference designs and industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Connectors (FMC) allow scaling and customization with daughter cards.
Key Features & Benefits
- Optimized for quickly prototyping high performance serial transceiver applications using Kintex-7 FPGAs
- Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs
- Demonstrates an end to end PCIe configured with 4 lanes at a 5 Gb/s link rate (Gen2) or 8 lanes at a 2.5 Gb/s link rate (Gen1)
- Advanced memory interface with 1GB DDR3 SODIM Memory
- Enabling serial connectivity with PCIe Gen2x4, SFP+ and SMA Pairs, UART, IIC
- Supports embedded processing with MicroBlaze, soft 32bit RISC
- Develop networking applications with 10-100-1000 Mbps Ethernet (GMII, RGMII and SGMII)
- Implement Video display applications with HDMI out
- Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface
Featured Xilinx Devices
Featuring the ROHS compliant KC705 kit including the XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA
| Logic Cells | 326,080 |
|---|---|
| DSP Slices | 840 |
| Memory | 16,020 |
| GTX Transceivers |
16 |
| I/O Pins | 500 |
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Product Information
Board Features
Featuring the KC705 Base Board
Clocking
- Fixed Oscillator with differential 200MHz output
- Used as the “system” clock for the FPGA
- Programmable Oscillator with 156.250 MHz as the default output
- Default frequency targeted for Ethernet applications but oscillator is programmable for many end uses
- Differential SMA clock input
- Differential SMA GTX reference clock input
- Jitter attenuated clock
- Used to support CPRI/OBSAI applications that perform clock recovery from a user-supplied SFP/SFP+ module
Expansion Connectors
- FMC-HPC (Partial Population) connector (4 GTX Transceiver, 116 single-ended or 58 differential (34 LA & 24 HA) user defined signals)
- FMC-LPC connector (1 GTX Transceiver, 68 single-ended or 34 differential user defined signals)
- Vadj can support 1.8V, 2.5V, or 3.3V
- IIC
Configuration
- Onboard JTAG configuration circuitry to enable configuration over USB
- JTAG header provided for use with Xilinx download cables such as the Platform Cable USB II
- 128MB (1024Mb) Linear BPI Flash for PCIe® Configuration
- 16MB (128Mb) Quad SPI Flash
Communication & Networking
- Gigabit Ethernet GMII, RGMII and SGMII
- SFP / SFP+ cage
- GTX port (TX, RX) with four SMA connectors
- UART To USB Bridge
- PCI Express x8 edge connector
Analog
- XADC header
Control & I/O
- 5X Push Buttons
- 4X DIP Switches
- Diff Pair I/O (1 SMA pair)
- AMS FAN Header (2 I/O)
- 7 I/O pins available through LCD header
Memory
- 1GB DDR3 SODIMM 800MHz / 1600Mbps
- 128MB (1024Mb) Linear BPI Flash for PCIe® Configuration
- 16MB (128Mb) Quad SPI Flash
- 8Kb IIC EEPROM
- SD Card Slot
Display
- HDMI Video output
- External Phy/codec device driving an HDMI Connector
- 2x16 LCD display
- 8x LEDs
Power
- 12V wall adapter or ATX
- Voltage and Current measurement capability of 2.5V, 1.5V, and 1.2V, 1.0V supplies (IIC path to FPGA)
What's Inside
KC705 Evaluation Board
Featuring the XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA
Full seat Vivado® Design Suite: Design Edition
Node locked & Device-locked to the Kintex-7 XC7K325T FPGA, with 1 year of updates and support
HDMI Cable
USB Micro Cable
USB Mini Cable
Power Cords and Adapter
Resources
Design Tools
| Name | Description | License Type |
|---|---|---|
| Vivado Design Suite Design Edition | The Xilinx Vivado® Design Suite is a revolutionary IP and System Centric design environment built from the ground up to accelerate the design for FPGAs and SoCs. | Node locked & Device-locked to the Kintex-7 XC7K325T FPGA, with 1 year of updates |
Intellectual Property
| Name | Description | License Type |
|---|---|---|
| PCI Express DMA Engine (Northwest Logic) | Northwest Logic’s PCI Express DMA Back-End Core | Hardware Time Out Evaluation license for the Northwest Logic DMA implemented with and limited to an AXI DMA Back-End interface >> See More |
| Memory Interface Generator (MIG) | MIG is a free software tool used to generate memory controllers and interfaces for Xilinx FPGAs | No-Charge IP |
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