Reconfigurable FPGA Boards

Custom Embedded Computing with Reconfigurable FPGAs on Off-the-Shelf Mezzanine Modules

Acromag’s line of user-configurable FPGA boards / I/O modules offer the ability to create your own custom FPGA board. Just download your own instruction sets into the I/O module’s FPGA. You can use your own application program to control the module’s analog or digital I/O channels for simulation, communication, diagnostics, image processing, and other applications.

Faster and Easier Development

To help you develop custom programs, Acromag offers an Engineering Design Kit. This FPGA kit provides utilities to help you load VHDL into the FPGA and to establish DMA transfers between the FPGA and the CPU. Kits include a compiled FPGA file and example VHDL code for the local bus interface, read/writes, and change-of-state interrupts to the bus. Get Your FPGAs Made Easy Guide

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Choose Your Performance Level

Zync^® UltraScale+ MPSoC I/O mPCIe-based FPGA Modules

APZU-300: AcroPack FPGA module, user-configurable Zynq® UltraScale+ MPSoC I/O.

These reconfigurable FPGA modules are based on the PCI Express Mini Card Electromechanical specification and are 70mm in length with an added 100 pin field I/O connector. The AcroPack is 19.05mm longer than the full length mini PCIe card at 50.95mm. It has the same mPCIe board width of 30mm and uses the same mPCIe standard board hold down standoff and screw keep out areas.

The APZU+ module is a Xilinx Zynq base module the has FPGA fabric available for parallel computing applications. The key information resulting from the parallel processing can then be passed to the ARM processing system for further manipulation and processing.

The APZU+ utilizes state of the art Surface-Mounted Technology (SMT) to achieve its wide functionality and is an ideal choice for a wide range of industrial I/O applications that require a high-density, highly reliable, high performance interface at a low cost.

• Read about the Xilinx Zync Chip.

ARTIX^®-7 mPCIe-based FPGA Modules

APA7-500: AcroPack FPGA module, high channel count digital interface: RS485, LVDS and TTL interface options.

These modules provide an FPGA based user configurable bridge between a host processor and a custom digital interface via PCI express. Four models provide a variety of digital I/O standards. Modules feature a user programmable Xilinx Artix-7 series FPGA. Reconfiguration of the FPGA is possible via a direct download into the Flash configuration memory over the PCIe bus. The on-board Flash memory loaded with configuration data allows automatic configuration of the FPGA on power-up.

These modules include a one lane PCIe (PCI Express) interface with one DMA channel for data transfer between the PCIe bus and FPGA block memory.

The board features a 32 Mb Quad Serial Flash memory. The Flash provides storage for the FPGA configuration.

Reconfigurable Xilinx FPGA – In system configuration of the FPGA is implemented via a standard JTAG interface or the PCIe bus. This provides a means for implementation of custom user defined designs.

• Read about the Xilinx Artix-7 Chip.

ARTIX®-7 XMC FPGA Modules

XMC-7A:  XMC FPGA module with PCIe interface, plug-in I/O extension mezzanine modules, front or rear I/O.

XMC-7ACC:  XMC FPGA module with PCIe interface, conduction-cooled.

XMC-7AWP: XMC FPGA module with PCIe interface, write-protected flash.

These reconfigurable FPGA modules include the following interfaces: Four or eight high speed serial lanes are allocated to the XMC P15 connector. These lanes can be used for PCIe (PCI Express), Serial RapidIO, or 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The example design will support a four or eight lane Gen 1 PCIe implementation with one DMA channel for data transfer between the PCIe bus and on board DDR3 memory.

Eight or four high speed serial lanes are also allocated to the XMC P16 connector. These serial lanes can be used for Serial RapidIO, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, or Xilinx Aurora. The example design will support dual Aurora interfaces for use of these lanes. Two global clocks and 34 select I/O signals will also be provided on the P16 connector. Select I/O signals are 2.5V I/O pins that can be selected from single-ended I/O standards (LVCMOS, HSTL, and SSTL) and differential I/O standards (LVDS, HT, LVPECL, BLVDS, Differential HSTL and SSTL).

The P4 rear I/O connector will provide two global clock differential pairs, and 30 LVDS signal pairs.

The board features 128 Meg x 64-bit DDR3 SDRAM and 32 Meg x 16-bit parallel Flash. The parallel Flash provides storage for both the FPGA configuration data and MicroBlaze CPU program storage.

• Read about the Xilinx Artix-7 Chip.

Kintex®-7 XMC FPGA Modules

XMC-7K:  XMC FPGA module with PCIe interface, plug-in I/O extension mezzanine modules.

XMC-7K CC:  XMC FPGA module with PCIe interface, conduction-cooled.

XMC-7K F: XMC FPGA module with PCIe & SFP+/Aurora interface, dual SFP+ ports.

XMC-7KWP: XMC FPGA module with PCIe interface, write-protected flash.

These modules are XMC modules with the heart of the design being a Xilinx 7 series reprogrammable FPGA. Reconfiguration of the FPGA is possible via a direct download into the Flash configuration memory over the PCIe bus. The on-board Flash memory loaded with configuration data allows automatic configuration of the FPGA on power-up.

These modules include the following interfaces: Four or eight high speed serial lanes are allocated to the XMC P15 connector. These lanes can be used for PCIe (PCI Express), Serial RapidIO, or 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The example design will support a four or eight lane Gen 1 PCIe implementation with one DMA channel for data transfer between the PCIe bus and on board DDR3 memory.

Eight or four high speed serial lanes are also allocated to the XMC P16 connector. These serial lanes can be used for Serial RapidIO, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, or Xilinx Aurora. The example design will support dual Aurora interfaces for use of these lanes. Two global clocks and 34 select I/O signals will also be provided on the P16 connector. Select I/O signals are 2.5V I/O pins that can be selected from single-ended I/O standards (LVCMOS, HSTL, and SSTL) and differential I/O standards (LVDS, HT, LVPECL, BLVDS, Differential HSTL and SSTL).

The P4 rear I/O connector will provide two global clock differential pairs, and 30 LVDS signal pairs.

The board features 128 Meg x 64-bit DDR3 SDRAM and 32 Meg x 16-bit parallel Flash. The parallel Flash provides storage for both the FPGA configuration data and MicroBlaze CPU program storage.

• Read about the Xilinx Kintex-7 Chip.

Spartan®-6 FPGA Modules

XMC-SLX: XMC FPGA board with PCIe interface, plug-in I/O extension mezzanine modules.

PMC-SLX: User-Configurable Spartan-6 FPGA Modules with Plug-In I/O.

The reconfigurable XMC-SLX and PMC-SLX modules use the Xilinx Spartan 6 XC6SLX150 FPGA. Reconfiguration of the FPGA is possible via a direct download into the Xilinx FPGA over the PCIe bus. In addition, on board flash memory can be loaded with FPGA configuration data for automatic Xilinx configuration on power-up. Flash programming is also implemented over the PCIe bus. Acromag provides an example design that includes an interface to the user rear I/O and front I/O connectors. The example design also, includes an interface to the SRAM with DMA hardware support.

• Read about the Spartan-6 Chip.

Virtex®-5 FPGA Modules

XMC-VLX: XMC FPGA board with PCIe interface, plug-in I/O extension mezzanine modules.

PMC-VFX: User-configurable Virtex-5 FPGA with Plug-in I/O.

PMC-VLX: User-configurable Virtex-5 FPGA with plug-in I/O.

PMC-VSX: User-configurable Virtex-5 FPGA with plug-in I/O.

Acromag’s XMC-VLX, PMC-VFX, PMC-VLX and PMC-VSX boards feature a reconfigurable Xilinx® Virtex™-5 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memory buffers and a high-throughput PCIe interface. Field I/O interfaces to the FPGA via the rear J4/P4 connector and/or with optional front mezzanine AXM plug-in I/O modules.

The result is a powerful and flexible I/O processor module that is capable of executing your custom instruction sets and algorithms.

These models provide a choice of logic-optimized FPGAs to match your performance requirements. Although there is no limit to the uses for these boards, several applications are ideal. Typical uses include hardware simulation, communications, military servers, in-circuit diagnostics, signal intelligence, and image processing.

Acromag FPGA Resources

As your I/O experts, Acromag is here to help! Below are three of our most popular technology papers/webcasts related to our FPGA products. Find more videos, application notes, white papers and support here: https://www.acromag.com/support/

Top 3 Acromag FPGA Resources:

1. What is FPGA Zynq UltraScale+ with MPSoC? | Technology Paper
2. What are FPGAs and FPGA Applications? | Webcast Replay
3. How to Use Vivado for FPGA Modifications | Webcast Replay