The XpressGen2V5-70 design kit provides a complete hardware and software environment for FPGA designs targeting the Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA. This development kit is built around a PCI-SIG-compliant PCI Express® form-factor card and targets the development of designs utilizing PCI Express® as their main communication interface.

What's unique about our Development Kit?

• The kit comes with an unlimited and unrestricted Protocore license of our industry proven XpressLite2 PCIe 2.0 endpoint with DMA IP for Xilinx Virtex-5 PCI Express® Integrated SerDes; implement the IP in any design targeted to the XpressGen2V5-70 board.
• The design environment allows for native Verilog and native VHDL design flows.
  
• PCI Express® Testbench in both Verilog and VHDL is provided to ease design verification.
• Software Design Kit (SDK) with a full-featured and license-free Windows and Linux PCI Express® device driver; The SDK also includes an API in C source code and multiple example GUI applications in C++ and Java source code.
• A portfolio of specialized daughtercards is available. Custom daughtercards can be designed and produced in very short turn times.
• Lifetime IP maintenance updates and technical support directly from PLDA's IP team.

Design Kit contents and features

• XpressGen2V5-70 development board
  • PCI Express® short form add-in board
    • PCI Express® Base Specification 2.0 compliant, tested at 5.0Ghz
    • PCI-SIG compliant
    • RoHS compliant
  • Xilinx Virtex 5 (XC5VFX70T-2FFG1136)
    • ~83% of device resources (~37K LUT) available when using XpressLite2 IP (x4)
    • Also supported: FX100T
  • Standard-based protocols supported
    • PCI Express® 2.0 in Gen2 mode (5.0 GT/sec) in x1 and x4 configurations
    • PCI Express® 2.0 in Gen1 mode (2.5 GT/sec) in x1, x4, x8 configurations
    • PCI Express® 1.1 x1 and x4 Cabling on daughtercard
    • 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
    • 10 Gigabit Ethernet on daughtercard
  • Memory
    • 128MB DDR2 SDRAM as one bank of 64M x 16-bit
    • Up to 2GB DDR2 SDRAM on SODIMM connector
    • 16MB general purpose Flash memory
    • 16MB Flash for FPGA configuration
    • 16MB Flash dedicated for FPGA configuration
  • I/O
    • 8 Tx/Rx Gigabits links
    • 13 LVDS signal pairs (13 Rx and 13 Tx)
    • 13 LVDS signal pairs (13 Rx and 13 Tx) or 52 LVCMOS 2.5V signals
    • 100 SSTL2 or LVCMOS 2.5V signals
  • Power supply
    • Through PCI Express® edge connector
    • Through ATX HDD AMP connector
  • Other
    • 4 x oscillator input
    • 8x LED
    • 8x switch
    • 1x extended RS232
• XpressGen2V5-70 board design files
  • Schematics
• XpressLite2 PCI Express® 2.0 endpoint with DMA IP core package
  • Protocore license, for board use only
  • Downloadable from your customer account here
  • Learn more about the XpressLite2 IP
• (optional) Dedicated XpressLite PCI Express® Root Port x8 IP core package
  • For designs requiring Root Port only functionality (x8)
  • Requires RP_HSI daughtercard. Contact us for details

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Avalaible daughtercards

Product Name	Version	Short Description
SFP_HSI	1.1	Adds two SFP connectors for high-speed optical and copper connectivity
RP HSI	1.1	Adds Root Port x8 capability
PCIEC4_HSI	1.0	Adds PCI Express® Cable support (x1 and x4)
KLINK Base	1.0	Adds Base Camera Link support for vision applications
SW HSI	1.1	Adds PCI Express® Switch, Root Port,and Cabling (x1) capability
Stack HSI	1.0	Allows stacking of multiple PLDA boards

Avalaible Documentation

Document Name	Version
Getting Started	May 30, 2008
Reference Manual	May 30, 2008
Product Brief	June 02, 2010