PXIe700

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PXIe700 is a powerful, flexible and expandable PXIe module fully compatible with PXI™-5 and ANSI-Vita-57.1 FMC carrier standards. PXIe is the platform of choice for the test, measurement and instrumentation market. The presence of an FMC site gives the ability to add different functionalities through the many available FMCs from various vendors.

The host interface is via x4 Gen2 PCIe. The PCIe interface is hard coded in the FPGA and with the latest Xilinx tools the support avoids any licensing costs. If more powerful Gen3 or DMA support is required, then suitable cores can be purchased from Sundance DSP or third parties. The on-board FLASH can be used to store up to 3 bit streams for configuring the FPGA through the driver from the host. A JTAG interface is also available for reconfiguring the FPGA from host during development and debugging via ChipScope.

PXIe700 supports White Rabbit developed by CERN and a European consortium of companies and universities. It is a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and sub-nanosecond accuracy synchronization. The IP core for this feature is freely available from the consortium web site.

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The module is populated with 2GB of DDR3 memory split over 2 banks with 32-bit interface.

The hardware is supported by Sundance SCom IP Core which communicates to the host through the PCIe interface and provides the user logic with a multi-channel streaming interface.

Windows driver, DLL and user interface software is available. Sample test applications are provided to help jump start any developments. The support from VideoGuru toolset can turn this hardware into a powerful video test centre for NTSC, VGA, DVI, SMPTE, GigE-Vision, and other video standards (ask for supported video standards).

 

 

 

Here is brief resource table for the FPGA models supported by this card:

Part Number XC7K325T XC7K410T
Slices 50,950 63,550
Logic Cells 326,080 356,160
CLB Flip‐Flops 407,600 445,200
Maximum Distributed RAM (Kb) 4,000 5,088
Block RAM/FIFO w/ ECC 445 715
Total Block RAM (Kb) 16,020 25,740

Features

  • 3U PXIe card conforming to PXI-Express standard
  • Kintex7 FPGA
    • XC7K325T-1FFG900C or
    • XC7K410T-1FFG900C (optional industrial grade)
  • Interfaces
    • PXI control, trigger and clock
    • 4 Lane PCIe Gen2 (Gen3 with softcore)
    • High Pin Count FMC connector with 10 GTX transceivers at 12.5 Gb/s each
    • 144 single ended IOs or 72 diff pairs to FMC
    • SFP+ for 10Gb Ethernet or Fiber Optics
    • JTAG
    • External clock input
    • 8 GPIO, could be used for Reset in/out
  • Memory
  • 2 banks of DDR3 memory, 1GB each, 32-bit wide
  • 128 MB FLASH
  • Supports White Rabbit for nanosecond synchronization
  • Supported by Sundance and third party IP cores
  • MS Windows and Linux OS driver support
  • Supported by VideoGuru software/firmware

Applications

  • Defense
  • Medical
  • Imaging
  • Machine Vision
  • Control
  • Instrumentation and testing
  • Software Defined Radio

Click here to download the user guide.

PXIe700

 

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