Introduction
This data sheet describes a board designed by RF Engines Ltd (RFEL) to facilitate the development and testing of cores implemented in Xilinx Virtex II FPGAs. Cores may be purchased from RFEL or produced in-house.
Virtex II Development Board
While there are many Virtex II board designs in the market place, the RFEL Virtex II development board has primarily been designed for flexibility and very high memory bandwidth. This allows the development of very complex, high speed, 'memory intensive' cores such as those developed in the RFEL core architecture range.
Allowing a choice of Virtex II devices (from XC2V3000 to XC2V10000), and a choice of QDR II RAM sizes and types means that the board can be tailor-built to meet a specific application and budget.
The ability of the board to be used in rack and 'stand-alone' bench-top environments means that it is equally well suited to both multi-board, highly intensive signal processing applications, or as a sophisticated piece of Lab equipment, able to execute real-time processing of very high frequency signals.
The board can be supplied with a supporting power supply card and companion transceiver card to allow easy transition of data on and off of the board
• Two Virtex II 3,000 to 10,000 FPGAs.
• Six QDR II RAM for each FPGA (various sizes available).
• Aggregate memory bandwidth up to 287.7Gbit/s.
• Aggregate I/O for board 19.2Gbits/s input and output via four tranceivers.
• Optional power supply board (enabling full utilisation of the boards' processing power).
• Optional Xilinx ACE controller.
• Battery back up for retention of security codes.
• Automatic over temp shut down.
Application examples
• Wide bandwidth and long FFT processing.
• Wide band multi channel receivers.
• High-performance IP core evaluation / development.
RFEL IP Core Application examples
The following are examples of RFEL IP cores that could run on a single board:
• 4 million point 200Msps Radix-2 Polyphase FFT.
• 2 million point 1.5Gsps Radix-8 FFT.
• 32k point (15 stage) PFT.
Disclaimer
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