The Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGA VCU118 Evaluation Kit is the ideal development environment for evaluating the cutting edge Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs. Virtex UltraScale+ devices provide the highest performance and integration capabilities in a FinFET node, including both the highest serial I/O and signal processing bandwidth, as well as the highest on-chip memory density.

This kit is ideal for prototyping applications ranging from 1+ Tb/s networking and data center to fully integrated radar/early-warning systems.

• Dual 80-bit DDR4 Component Memory

• RLDRAM3 (2x36-bit) Memory

• Dual QSFP28 Interfaces

• PCIe Gen3 x16 (VCCINT = 0.85V)
  

• VITA 57.4 FMC+ Interface

• VITA 57.1 FMC Interface

• Samtec FireFly Interface

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

• QSPI flash memory

Communication & Networking

• 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (SGMII)

• Dual 4x28Gbps QSFP28 cages

• Samtec FireFly 4x28Gbps Interface

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

• RJ45 Ethernet connector

• PCI Express endpoint Gen3 x 16

Expansion Connectors

• FMC+ HSPC connector (24 – 28Gbps GTY Transceivers,  80 differential user defined pairs)

•  FMC HPC1 connector (58 differential user defined pairs)

•  PMOD header

•  IIC

Control & I/O

• User Push Buttons (x5)

• User DIP Switch (4-position)

• PMBUS & System Controller MSP430 for power, clocks, SD-Card and I2C bus switching

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 1Gb Quad SPI Flash

Clocking

• SI5335A Quad Clock Generator

• Si570 IIC Programmable LVDS Clock Generator

• SI5328C Clock Multiplier and Jitter Attenuator

• 2x SMA MGT Reference Clock inputs

• 1 SMA User Clock input

Display

• Users & Status LEDs

Power

• 12V wall adapter or ATX