Requirements; Setting Up The Vc7203 Board - Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA VC7203 Getting Started Manual

Requirements

The hardware and software required to run the GTX IBERT demonstrations are:
• VC7203 Virtex-7 FPGA GTX Transceiver Characterization Board including:
One SD card containing the IBERT demonstration designs
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One Samtec BullsEye cable
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Eight SMA female-to-female (F-F) adapters
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Six 50Ω SMA terminators
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GTX transceiver power supply module (installed on board)
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SuperClock-2 module, Rev 1.0 (installed on board)
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12V DC power adapter
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USB cable, standard-A plug to Micro-B plug
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• Host PC with:
SD card reader
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USB ports
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• Vivado Design Suite software 2015.1
The hardware and software required to rebuild the IBERT demonstration designs are:
• PC with a version of the Windows operating system supported by Xilinx Vivado Design
Suite
• Vivado Design Suite software 2015.1

Setting Up the VC7203 Board

This section describes how to set up the VC7203 board.
The VC7203 board can be damaged by electrostatic discharge (ESD). Follow standard ESD
CAUTION!
prevention measures when handling the board.
When the VC7203 board ships from the factory, it is configured for the GTX IBERT
demonstrations described in this document. If the board has been re-configured it must be
returned to the default setup before running the IBERT demonstrations.
VC7203 IBERT Getting Started Guide
UG847 (Vivado Design Suite v2015.1) April 27, 2015
Chapter 1: VC7203 IBERT Getting Started Guide
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