The Virtex® UltraScale™ FPGA VCU108 Evaluation Kit is the perfect development environment for evaluating the unprecedented levels of performance, system integration and bandwidth provided by Virtex UltraScale devices.

This kit provides an ideal platform for prototyping systems that require massive data flow and packet processing such as 400+ Gbps systems, large-scale emulation and high performance computing.

• 4 MB RLD3 Component Memory Interface

• Two 2.5 GB DDR4 Component Memory Interfaces

• 4 x 28 Gbps CFP2 & QSFP28 Optical Interfaces

• PCIe Gen3 x8

• 2x FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface for I/O expansion

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

• 1 Gb Linear x16 BPI flash memory

Memory

• Two 4 GB DDR4 component memory interfaces (five [256 Mb x 16] devices each)

• 4 MB RLD3 component memory interfaces (five [256 Mb x 16] devices each)IIC EEPROM: 8Kb

• Micro Secure Digital (SD) connector

Communication & Networking

• 4 x 28Gbps CFP2 cage

• 4 x 28Gbps QSPF28 cage

• GTY port(4 TX & RX) with pads for Samtec Bullseye Cable
  

• Dual USB-to-UART Bridge with mico-B USB connector

• PCI Express endpoint Gen3 x 8

• 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (SGMII)

Expansion Connectors

• FMC HPC0 connector (ten GTH transceivers)

• FMC HPC1 connector (ten GTH transceivers)

• PMOD (1x6 0.1" Header)

Power

• AC Power adapter (12V) or ATX

Clocking

• SI5335A Quad Clock Generator

• Si570 IIC Programmable LVDS Clock Generator

• SI5328C Clock Multiplier and Jitter Attenuator

• Subminiature version A (SMA) connectors (differential)

Analog

• XADC header Power management with PMBus voltage monitoring through Maxim power controllers and GUI, current monitoring via FPGA SYSMON GUI

Control & I/O

• User Push Buttons (x5)

• User DIP Switch (4-position)

• SMA User I/O (Diff Pair)

Display

• HDMI video output

• User & Status LEDs