The Conduant PXIe-8300 FPGA board provides a hardware platform that is able to sustain full-duplex high-bandwidth transfers through its 8-lane Gen3 PXI Express (PXIe) interface and its 24 channel high speed serial interface. The PXIe interface provides a theoretical maximum throughput of 8GB/s (simultaneous in and out). At the center of the design is a Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale (XCKU095-FFVB1760-2-E) FPGA which interconnects all ports and other devices in addition to the resources available within the FPGA. The board provides both 8GB of high-speed DDR3 SDRAM and 8MB of QDR II+ SRAM for data storage or buffering.
With up to 24 high speed serial transceivers available, the board can be customized to include a front panel connector (optical or copper) to gain access to these channels for numerous applications that require high speed data connectivity. The high speed serial lanes are implemented on the board as connections for Samtec Firefly modules which allows numerous options for copper or optical cabling to match your requirements. Each channel (transmit/receive) can operate independently or be combined (bonded) using various protocols to achieve higher performance. The included Interlaken cores in the FPGA can be used to create dual 150 Gbps interfaces. Additional protocols such as AMD’s Aurora serial protocol can also be used to meet your connectivity requirements for high speed data transfer.
At power-on, the FPGA is quickly loaded with the user program using the SPI x4 flash memory device. This provides the fast wake-up required for PCI Express. The user content can be encrypted using a key that is either permanently programmed in a non-volatile manner into the FPGA (eFUSE) or can be preserved in a volatile manner so long as the on-board battery is not removed. This feature makes this product particularly attractive for applications in which protecting the FPGA intellectual property from cloning or reverse engineering is important.
The board includes a microcontroller (uC) for power management and an on-board I2C interface connecting the uC, FPGA, and Samtec Firefly modules (optional).
