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Part 3.9: Temperature Sensor and EEPROM ........50 Part 3.10: LED Light ................51 Part 3.11: Keys ................... 53 Part 3.12: JTAG Interface ..............53 Part 3.13: Power Supply ..............54 Part 3.14: Fan ..................55 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 3 / 56...
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KINTEX UltraScale+ FPGA Board AXKU042 User Manual Part 3.15: Form Factors ..............56 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 4 / 56...
The carrier board expands a wealth of peripheral interfaces for the core board, including 2*10G SFP+ Interfaces, 3 FMC Interfaces (1 HPC, 2 LPC), 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 UART serial interface, and 1 SD card Interface, LEDs and KYEs. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 5 / 56...
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5) 2 LEDs, including 1 power indicator and 1 DONE configuration indicator Carrier Board 1) 2 SFP+ fiber optic interfaces, each with fiber optic data communication receive and transmit speeds up to 16.3Gb/s. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 6 / 56...
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KSZ9031 industrial grade GPHY chip. 5) 3 standard FMC expansion ports, including 2 LPC expansion ports and 1 HPC expansion port. It can be connected to XILINX or ALINX FMC modules (HDMI input/output module, binocular camera module, high-speed AD module, etc.).
IO connection part, the wiring between the FPGA chip and the interface has been processed with equal length and differential processing, and the size of the core board is only 80*60 (mm), which is very suitable for secondary development. Figure 2-1-1: ACKU040 Core Board Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 8 / 56...
The main parameters of the FPGA chip XCKU040 are as follows Name Specific parameters Logic Cells 530,250 CLB Look-Up-Tables 242,400 CLB flip-flops 484,800 21.1 Block RAM(kb) DSP Slices 1,920 PCIe Gen3 x 8 GTP Transceiver 20, 16.3Gb/s max Speed Grade Temperature Grade Industrial Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 9 / 56...
We have fully considered the matching resistor/terminal resistance, trace impedance control, and trace length control in circuit design and PCB design to ensure high-speed and stable operation of DDR3. Figure 3-1: The DDR4 DRAM Schematic Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 10 / 56...
The clock pin is connected to CCLK0 of BANK0, and other data signals are connected to D00~D03 of BANK0 and FCS pins. Figure 4-2 shows the hardware connection of QSPI Flash and FPGA Chip. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 14 / 56...
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FPGA Pin Number QSPI_CCLK CCLK_0 QSPI0_CS_B RDWR_FCS_B_0 QSPI0_IO0 D00_MOSI_0 QSPI0_IO1 D01_DIN_0 QSPI0_IO2 D02_0 QSPI0_IO3 D03_0 Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin Number QSPI_CCLK CCLK_0 QSPI1_CS_B IO_L2N_T0L_N3_FWE_FCS2_B_65 QSPI1_IO0 IO_L22P_T3U_N6_DBC_AD0P_D04_6 QSPI1_IO1 IO_L22N_T3U_N7_DBC_AD0N_D05_65 QSPI1_IO2 IO_L21P_T3L_N4_AD8P_D06_65 QSPI1_IO3 IO_L21N_T3L_N5_AD8N_D07_65 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 15 / 56...
(PWR) and the other is the configuration LED (DONE). The Power LED and DONE LED will be on after power-up; the DONE LED will be off when the FPGA is configured for the program.The schematic diagram of Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 16 / 56...
Part 2.7: Power Supply The ACKU040 core board power supply voltage is DC12V, which is powered by the carrier board. The core board power supply schematic is show as Figure 2-7-1. Figure 2-7-1: Power Supply Design Diagram Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 17 / 56...
DCDC chip ETA8156, and the GTX auxiliary power supply +1.8V is generated by an LDO chip SPX3819-1-8. The DDR4 VTT and VREF voltages are generated by the TPS51200. Part 2.8: ACKU040 Core Board Form Factors Figure 2-8-1: ACKU040 Core Board Form Factors Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 18 / 56...
8Gbps bandwidth. The design of the PCIe interface of the FPGA development board is shown in Figure 3-2-1 below, where the TX transmit signals are connected in AC coupling mode. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 30 / 56...
FPGA and the optical module through in a differential signal mode, and the data rate of each TX transmission and RX reception is as high as 16.3 Gb/s. The reference clock of the GXH transceiver Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 32 / 56...
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SFP2_TX_N SFP2 Data Transmission (Negative) SFP2_RX_P SFP2 Data Receiver (Positive) SFP2_RX_N SFP2 Data Receiver (Negative) SFP2_TX_DIS AM11 SFP2 Optical Transfer Disable, active high SFP2_LOSS SFP2 Optical LOSS,High level means no light signal is received Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 33 / 56...
When the network is connected to 100M Ethernet, the data transmission of FPGA chip and PHY chip KSZ9031RNX is communicated through RMII bus, and the transmission clock is 25Mhz. Data is sampled on the rising edge and falling samples of the clock. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 34 / 56...
The AXKU042 FPGA development board comes with two standard FMC LPC expansion ports and one standard FMC HPC expansion ports that can be connected to various FMC modules of XILINX or ALINX (HDMI input and output modules, binocular camera modules, high-speed AD modules, etc.). The FMC expansion port contains 33 pairs of differential IO signals and one I2C bus Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx...
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1.8V. 8 high-speed GTH transceiver signals are connected to the IO of the FPGA chip BANK227 and BANK228. The schematic diagrams of FPGA and FMC LPC connectors are shown in Figures 2-6-1, 2-6-2 and 2-6-3 Figure 2-6-1:LPC FMC1 Connector Diagram Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 37 / 56...
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FMC Reference 7 Data P FMC1_LPC_LA07_P B47_L15_P FMC Reference 8 Data N FMC1_LPC_LA08_N B47_L24_N FMC Reference 8 Data P FMC1_LPC_LA08_P B47_L24_P FMC Reference 9 Data N FMC1_LPC_LA09_N B47_L17_N FMC Reference 9 Data P FMC1_LPC_LA09_P B47_L17_P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 39 / 56...
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B48_L8_N AG34 FMC Reference 23 Data P FMC1_LPC_LA23_P B48_L8_P AF33 FMC Reference 24 Data N FMC1_LPC_LA24_N B48_L4_N AG29 FMC Reference 24 Data P FMC1_LPC_LA24_P B48_L4_P AF29 FMC Reference 25 Data N FMC1_LPC_LA25_N B48_L9_N AF32 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 40 / 56...
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Signal Name FPGA Pin Number FPGA Pin Description Name FMC Reference 1 Reference FMC2_LPC_CLK0_N B65_L13_N Clock N FMC Reference 1 Reference FMC2_LPC_CLK0_P B65_L13_P Clock P FMC Reference 2 Reference FMC2_LPC_CLK1_N B64_L11_N AH12 Clock N Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 41 / 56...
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FMC Reference 12 Data N FMC2_LPC_LA12_N B65_L12_N FMC Reference 12 Data P FMC2_LPC_LA12_P B65_L12_P FMC Reference 13 Data N FMC2_LPC_LA13_N B65_L19_N FMC Reference 13 Data P FMC2_LPC_LA13_P B65_L19_P FMC Reference 14 Data N FMC2_LPC_LA14_N B65_L23_N Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 42 / 56...
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Data P FMC2_LPC_LA27_P B64_L24_P FMC Reference 28 Data N FMC2_LPC_LA28_N B64_L18_N FMC Reference 28 Data P FMC2_LPC_LA28_P B64_L18_P FMC Reference 29 Data N FMC2_LPC_LA29_N B64_L6_N AL13 FMC Reference 29 Data P FMC2_LPC_LA29_P B64_L6_P AK13 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 43 / 56...
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FMC LA 5 Data P FMC_HPC_LA05_P B67_L12_P FMC LA 6 Data N FMC_HPC_LA06_N B67_L4_N FMC LA 6 Data P FMC_HPC_LA06_P B67_L4_P FMC LA 7 Data N FMC_HPC_LA07_N B67_L5_N FMC LA 7 Data P FMC_HPC_LA07_P B67_L5_P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 44 / 56...
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FMC LA 23 Data N FMC_HPC_LA23_N B66_L18_N FMC LA 23 Data P FMC_HPC_LA23_P B66_L18_P FMC LA 24 Data N FMC_HPC_LA24_N B66_L8_N FMC LA 24 Data N FMC_HPC_LA24_P B66_L8_P FMC LA 25 Data N FMC_HPC_LA25_N B66_L10_N Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 45 / 56...
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FMC HA 6 Data P FMC_HPC_HA06_P B68_L22_P FMC HA 7 Data N FMC_HPC_HA07_N B68_L4_N FMC HA 7 Data P FMC_HPC_HA07_P B68_L4_P FMC HA 8 Data N FMC_HPC_HA08_N B68_L18_N FMC HA 8 Data P FMC_HPC_HA08_P B68_L18_P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 46 / 56...
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FMC HA 23 Data N FMC_HPC_HA23_N B68_L9_N FMC HA 23 Data P FMC_HPC_HA23_P B68_L9_P FMC I2C Bus Clock FMC_HPC_SCL B66_L17_N FMC I2C Bus Data FMC_HPC_SDA B66_L17_P Transceiver Reference Clock 0 FMC_GBTCLK0_M2C 227_CLK1_P Input P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 47 / 56...
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Transceiver Data 4 Output P FMC_DP4_C2M_P 228_TX1_P Transceiver Data 4 Output N FMC_DP4_C2M_N 228_TX1_N Transceiver Data 5 Output P FMC_DP5_C2M_P 228_TX3_P Transceiver Data 4 Output N FMC_DP5_C2M_N 228_TX3_N Transceiver Data 6 Output P FMC_DP6_C2M_P 228_TX2_P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 48 / 56...
AXKU042 FPGA development board, and the model is LM75 of ON Semiconductor. The temperature accuracy of the LM75 chip is 0.5 degrees. The sensor and FPGA are directly connected to the I2C digital interface. The Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 50 / 56...
LED will be off. When the voltage of the connected IO is high, the user LED will be lit. The diagram of the user LED hardware connection is shown in Figure 2-10-1. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 51 / 56...
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Pin assignment of user LED Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin Number Description User LED1 LED1 B66_T3U User LED2 LED2 B66_T2U User LED3 LED3 B66_T1U User LED4 LED3 B65_T0U Panel Indicator TEST_LED1 B66_L22_N Panel Indicator TEST_LED2 B66_L22_P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 52 / 56...
FPGA chip caused by hot plugging, a protection diode is added to the JTAG signal to ensure that the voltage of the signal is within the range accepted by the FPGA to avoid damage of the FPGA chip. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 53 / 56...
The power input voltage of the AXKU042 FPGA development board is DC12V, and the external +12V power supply supplies power to the FPGA development board. The Power supply design diagram shown in Figure 2-13-1. Figure 2-13-1: Power Supply Design Diagram Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 54 / 56...
Figure 2-14-1. Figure 2-14-1:Fan design in the schematic Fan Control Pin Assignment Signal Name FPGA Pin FPGA Pin Description Number Pins for controlling the fan FAN_PWM B64_T0U AK11 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 55 / 56...
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KINTEX UltraScale+ FPGA Board AXKU042 User Manual Part 3.15: Form Factors Figure 19-1: Form Factors (Top View) Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 56 / 56...
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