Board Features

The VCU128 evaluation board features are listed here. Detailed information for each feature is provided in Board Component Descriptions .

• Virtex® UltraScale+™ XCVU37P-2FSVH2892E device
• Zynq®-7000 SoC XC7Z010 based system controller
• 4.5 GB DDR4 72-bit component memory interface (4.5 x [512 Mb x 16])
• 144 Mb 36-bit dual-port QDR-IV component memory interface (1 x [4M x 36])
• 288 MB 72-bit RLD3 component memory interface (2 x [1.125 Gb x 36])
• 2 Gb Quad SPI flash configuration memory
• QSFPF28 - Sixteen (16) GTY transceivers are allocated for a 1x4 QSFP cage
• USB JTAG interface (FTDI FT4232HL with a micro-AB USB connector)
• Clock sources:
  • SMA I/F clocks:
    • FPGA bank 67 SMA clock P/N
  • QSFP clocks:
    • Four Si570 I2C programmable clock oscillators (156.25 MHz default)
    • QSFP clock recovery Si5328 input to GTY132 and GTY134
    • QSFP external SMA diff. clock input to GTY131
  • Memory I/F clocks:
    • Three SiT9120A fixed 100 MHz LVDS clock oscillators
  • PCIe® I/F clock:
    • Fixed 100 MHz HCSL clock from PCI Express® edge input to 1-to-2 clock buffer wired to GTY225 and GTY227
  • System controller clock:
    • SiT8008A 33.33 MHz single-ended clock oscillator
• 96 GTY transceivers (24 Quads)
  • FMCP HSPC connector (twenty-four GTY transceivers)
  • 4x28 Gb/s QSFP+ connectors (eight GTY transceivers)
  • PCIe 16-lane edge connector (sixteen GTY transceivers)
  • Not used (forty-eight GTY transceivers)
• PCI Express® Endpoint connectivity
  • Gen1 (x1, x2, x4, x8, x16)
  • Gen2 (x1, x2, x4, x8, x16)
  • Gen3 (x1, x2, x4, x8, x16)
  • Dual Gen4 (x1, x2, x4, x8)
• Ethernet PHY SGMII interface with RJ-45 connector
• Dual USB-to-UART bridge with micro-B USB connector (shared FTDI FT4232HL)
• I2C bus
• Status LEDs
• User I/O (1 x push-button switch, 8 x LED)
• VITA 57.4 FMC+ HSPC connector (DP[0:23], LA[0:33])
• Power management with I2C voltage monitoring through Intersil power controllers and GUI
• Configuration options:
  • Quad SPI flash memory
  • USB JTAG I/F (FTDI FT4232HL)
  • Platform cable USB II interface 2x7 2 mm keyed connector