KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Version Record Version Date Release By Description Rev 1.0 2021-01-22 Rachel Zhou First Release Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 2 / 45...
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Table of Contents Version Record.......................2 Part 1: FPGA Development Board Introduction..........5 Part 2: AC7K325 Core Board................8 Part 2.1: AC7K325 Core Board Introduction..........8 Part 2.2: FPGA Chip..................9 Part 2.3:DDR3 DRAM.................10 Part 2.4: QSPI Flash...................14 Part 2.5: Clock configuration..............
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual The AV7K300 FPGA development board, it is the XILINX KINTEX-7 FPGA development platform. The AV7K300 FPGA development platform uses XILINX's KINTEX-7 chip XC7K325 solution. The FPGA development board mounts four pieces of 512MB high-speed DDR3 SDRAM chips, and a 128Mb QSPI FLASH chip.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Part 1: FPGA Development Board Introduction The entire structure of the development board is designed by inheriting our usual core board + expansion board model. Use high-speed inter-board connectors to connect between the core board and the expansion board.
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Through this diagram, you can see the interfaces and functions that the AV7K300 FPGA Development Board contains: FPGA Core Board The smallest system consisting of XC7K325 + 4 DDR3 + QSPI FLASH,...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual 1 Uart to USB interface, used for communication with computer, convenient for users to debug. The serial port chip adopts Silicon Labs CP2102GM USB-UART chip, and the USB interface adopts MINI USB interface.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Part 2: AC7K325 Core Board Part 2.1: AC7K325 Core Board Introduction AC7K325 (core board model, the same below) core board, FPGA chip is based on XC7K325TFFG900 of XILINX company XC7K325 series. The core board uses 4 Micron 512MB DDR3 chips MT41J256M16HA-125, with a total capacity of 2GB.
XC7K325T-2FFG900I. The speed class is 2 and the temperature class is industrial. This model is a FGG900 package with 900 pins and a 1.0mm pitch. The chip naming rules for Xilinx KINTEX-7 FPGA are shown in Figure 2-2-1 below:...
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual 16,020 Block RAM(kb) DSP48 Slices PCIe Gen2 XADC 12bit, 1Mbps AD GTP Transceiver 16,12.5Gb/s max Speed Grade Temperature Grade Industrial Part 2.3:DDR3 DRAM The AC7K325 FPGA core board is equipped with four 512MB DDR3 chips, model MT41K256M16HA-125 (Compatible with MT41J256M16HA-125).
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Figure 2-3-1: The DDR3 DRAM Schematic 4 DDR3 DRAM pin assignments: Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin DDR3_D0 IO_L13P_T2_MRCC_32 AD18 DDR3_D1 IO_L16N_T2_32 AB18 DDR3_D2 IO_L14P_T2_SRCC_32 AD17 DDR3_D3 IO_L17P_T2_32 AB19 DDR3_D4 IO_L14N_T2_SRCC_32 AD16...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual configuration Bin files and other user data files in use. The specific models and related parameters of QSPI FLASH are shown in Table 2-4-1. Position Model Capacity Factory N25Q128 128M Bit Numonyx Table 2-4-1: QSPI FLASH Specification QSPI FLASH is connected to the dedicated pins of BANK0 and BANK14 of the FPGA chip.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Part 2.5: Clock configuration The core board provides 200Mhz and 125Mhz differential active clocks for the FPGA system. Provide differential clock sources for FPGA logic part and high-speed transceiver GTX part respectively. The schematic diagram of the...
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Figure 2-5-2: 200Mhz System Clock Source Schematic System Clock pin assignments: Signal Name FPGA Pin SYS_CLK_P AE10 SYS_CLK_N AF10 Part 2.5.2: GTX Reference Clock The AC7K325 core board provides a 125Mhz reference clock for the GTX transceiver.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Figure 2-5-3: GTX Clock Source GTX Clock Source FPGA pin assignments: Signal Name FPGA Pin BANK117_CLK1_P BANK117_CLK1_N Part 2.6: LED Light There are 2 red LED lights on the AC7K325 core board, one of which is the power indicator (PWR) and the other is the configuration LED (DONE).
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Figure 2-6-1: LED in core board Schematic Part 2.7: Power Supply The AC7K325 core board power supply voltage is DC5V, which is powered by the carrier board. The core board power supply schematic is show as Figure 2-7-1.
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Figure 2-7-1: Power Supply Design Diagram +5V generates +1.0V FPGA core power through the DCDC power chip EM2130L01QI. The output current of EM2130 is up to 20A, which meets the current demand of the core voltage. The +5V power supply then generates +1.5V, +3.3V, MGT_1.5V and +1.5V four-way power supply through the DCDC...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual chip TPS82085. The +1.0V used by the GTX transceiver is generated by the DCDC chip EN6362QI, and the MGT_1.5V power supply is generated by the LDO chip TPS74401 to generate the +1.2V power supply required by GTX.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Part 2.8: Size Dimension Figure 2-8-1: AC7K325 Core Board Size Dimension Part 2.9: Board-to-Board Pin Definition The core board expands a total of 4 high-speed expansion ports, using 4 120-Pin inter-board connectors (J29~J32) to connect to the carrier board. The...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual J29 connector pin assignment J29 Pin Signal Name FPGA Pin J29 Pin Signal Name FPGA Pin BANK115_TX0_N BANK115_RX0_N BANK115_TX0_P BANK115_RX0_P BANK115_TX1_N BANK115_RX1_N BANK115_TX1_P BANK115_RX1_P BANK115_TX2_N BANK115_RX2_N BANK115_TX2_P BANK115_RX2_P BANK115_TX3_N BANK115_RX3_N BANK115_TX3_P BANK115_RX3_P BANK115_CLK0_N...
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Part 3: Carrier Board Part 3.1: Carrier Board Introduction Through the previous function introduction, we can understand the function of the carrier board 4 optical fiber interface 1 PCIEx8 interface 2 channels of SDI video output interface supporting 3G ...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Figure 3-2-1: Optical Fiber Design Schematic 4-channel SFP Interface FPGA pin assignment is as follows: Signal Name FPGA Pin Description Number SFP1_TX_P BANK117_TX0_P SFP 1 Data Transmitter (Positive) SFP1_TX_N BANK117_TX0_N SFP 1 Data Transmitter (Negative)
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual PCIE_RX5_P BANK115_RX2_P PCIE Channel 5 Data Receive Positive PCIE_RX5_N BANK115_RX2_N PCIE Channel 5 Data Receive Negative PCIE_RX6_P BANK115_RX1_P PCIE Channel 6 Data Receive Positive PCIE_RX6_N BANK115_RX1_N PCIE Channel 6 Data Receive Negative PCIE_RX7_P...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual GTX transceiver TX of FPGA BANK118 to realize high-speed SDI video output. The hardware connection diagram of GV8500 chip and FPGA is shown in Figure 3-4-1: Figure 3-4-1: SDI Output Interface Schematic The pin assignment of the 1...
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Part 3.5: SDI Input Interface There are 2 SDI input interfaces on the carrier board, used GV8500 SDI equalizer chips, which supports different formats of data input HDcctv 1.0, HD-SDI (ST 292), 3G_SDI (ST-424) and SD_SDI (ST259). The input interface is adaptive to video reception at three rates.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual Signal Name FPGA Pin Description Number SDI2_3G_RXN BANK118_RX1_N SDI Input Differential Signal Negative SDI2_3G_RXP BANK118_RX1_P SDI Input Differential Signal Positive Part 3.6: USB to Serial Port The AV7K300 carrier board is equipped with a Uart to USB interface for system debugging.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual interface to provide users with access to SD card memory for storing pictures, music or other user data files. SDIO signal is connected with FPGA IO signal, supports SPI mode and SD mode, the SD card used is MicroSD card. The schematic diagram of FPGA and SD card connector is shown in Figure 3-7-1.
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual spacing standard 40-pin expansion port J18, J33, which are used to connect the ALINX modules or the external circuit designed by the user. The expansion port has 40 signals, of which 1-channel 5V power supply, 2-channel 3.3 V power supply, 3-channle ground and 34 IOs.
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual J33 Expansion Header Pin Assignment J33 Pin Signal Name J33 Pin Signal Name Number Number IO2_1N IO2_1P IO2_2N IO2_2P IO2_3N IO2_3P IO2_4N IO2_4P IO2_5N IO2_5P IO2_6N IO2_6P IO2_7N IO2_7P IO2_8N IO2_8P IO2_9N IO2_9P...
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual user LED will be extinguished. In addition, there are 4 user buttons on the board. The default button signal is high. When the button is pressed, the button level is low. The hardware connection diagram of user LED lights and buttons is...
KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual KEY1 B12_L19_N User KEY1 AF21 KEY2 B12_11_N User KEY2 AF23 B12_L3_P KEY3 User KEY3 AB22 KEY4 B12_L5_P User KEY4 AC20 Part 3.10: JTAG debug port A JTAG interface is reserved JTAG interface one the AV7K300 FPGA development board for downloading FPGA programs or firmware to FLASH.
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KINTEX-7 FPGA Development Board AV7K300 User Manual into +5V, +3.3V two-way power supply through 1 way DC/DC power chip TPS54620 and 1 way DC/DC power chip MP1482. Because the +5V power supply supplies power to the core board through the inter-board connector, the current output of the DCDC power supply is 6A, and the current output of the other 3.3V is 2A.
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