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It is a "professional" and "versatile" development platform for data communication. We believe that such a product is an ideal for students, engineers and other groups who are engaged in the development of data communication and video image processing. www.alinx.com 3 / 40...
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Also XCAU15P comes with 12 GTH high-speed transceivers, each with a speed of up to 12.5Gb/s, making it very suitable for fiber optic communication and PCIe data communication. The following figure is a schematic diagram of the entire development system structure: www.alinx.com 4 / 40...
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1-Channel Uart to USB interfaces for communication with the computer, for user debugging. The serial port chip adopts the USB-UAR chip of Silicon Labs CP2102GM, and the USB interface adopts the MINI USB 的 USB-UART interface. www.alinx.com 5 / 40...
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This core board uses one Micron's DDR4 Chip MT40A512M16LY-062EIT, with a 16 bit data bus bandwidth and a total capacity of 8Gb; The maximum operating www.alinx.com 6 / 40...
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XCAU15P-2FFVB676I. The speed class is 2 and the temperature class is industrial. This model is a FFVB676 package with 676 pins. The chip naming rules for Xilinx ARTIX UltraScale+ FPGA are shown in Figure 2-2-1 below: www.alinx.com 7 / 40...
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Sitime Corporation, one is at 200MHz and model SiT9121AI-2B1-33E200.00000, used for the system master clock of FPGA and for generating DDR4 control clock; The other one is at 156.25MHz, model SiT9121AI-2B1-33E156.250000, used for the reference clock input of the GTH transceiver. www.alinx.com 8 / 40...
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In Figure 2-3-2, G2 is the 156.25M active differential crystal oscillator circuit, where the clock serves as a reference input clock for the GTH module inside of the FPGA. Crystal oscillator output connected to BANK225 clock pin MGTREFCLK1P of FPGA GTH_ 225 (T7) and MGTREFCLK1N_ 225 (T6). www.alinx.com 9 / 40...
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Table 2-4-1 DDR3 SDRAM Configuration Bit No. Chip Model Capacity Manufacturer MT40A512M16LY-062EIT 512M x 16bit micron The hardware design of DDR4 requires strict consideration of signal integrity. When designing the circuit and PCB, we have fully considered matching www.alinx.com 10 / 40...
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Figure 2-5-1 is a schematic diagram of the connection between QSPI Flash and FPGA chips. QSPI_CLK FPGA BANK QSPI_CS QSPI FLASH (MT25QU256) QSPI_DQ0~QSPI_DQ3 Figure 2-5-1 QSPI Flash Schematic QSPI Flash pin assignments: Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin No. www.alinx.com 13 / 40...
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IO level to 1.2V (note that these BANK power supplies cannot exceed 1.8V), and the IO levels for BANK84, 85, and 86 are 3.3V. The power supply of the GTH transceiver is generated by the LDO chip. www.alinx.com 14 / 40...
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The sequence of the power is like : VCCINT (1.0V) ->VCCBRAM (1.0V) ->(1.5V, 3.3V, VCCIO) and 1.0V ->MGTAVCC ->MGTAVTT, ensuring the normal operation of the chip. www.alinx.com 15 / 40...
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AXAU15 User Manual 2.9 Size Dimension TOP View www.alinx.com 22 / 40...
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When the JL2121 is powered on, it will detect the level status of some specific IOs to determine its own operating mode. Figure 3-5-1 describes the default settings after the GPHY chip is powered on. Configuration Pin Instructions Configuration value MDIO/MDC mode PHY Address RXD3_ADR0 PHY Address 001 RXC_ADR1 RXCTL_ADR2 www.alinx.com 23 / 40...
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PC, with a reference clock frequency of 100Mhz. The design diagram of the PCIe interface of the development board is shown in Figure 3-3-1, where the TX sending signal and the reference clock CLK signal are connected in AC coupling mode. www.alinx.com 25 / 40...
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PCIE channel 1 Data Transmit Negative PCIE_TX2_P PCIE channel 2 Data Transmit Positive PCIE_TX2_N PCIE channel 2 Data Transmit Negative PCIE_TX3_P PCIE channel 3 Data Transmit Positive PCIE_TX3_N PCIE channel 3 Data Transmit Negative PCIE_CLK_P PCIE Reference Clock Positive www.alinx.com 26 / 40...
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PCIE Reset Signal 3.4 FMC Expansion Port The AXAU15 FPGA development board comes with a standard FMC HPC expansion port, and can be externally connected to XILINX or ALINX various FMC modules (HDMI input/output modules, binocular camera modules, high-speed AD modules, etc.).
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LA Reference 21 Data P FMC_LA22_N B64_L22_N AC17 LA Reference 22 Data N FMC_LA22_P B64_L22_P AB17 LA Reference 22 Data P FMC_LA23_N B64_L21_N AB20 LA Reference 23 Data N FMC_LA23_P B64_L21_P AA20 LA Reference 23 Data P www.alinx.com 28 / 40...
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FMC Transceiver data reception 1 N FMC_DP1_M2C_P 225_RX1_P FMC Transceiver data reception 1 P FMC_DP2_C2M_N 225_TX2_N FMC Transceiver data transmission 2 N FMC_DP2_C2M_P 225_TX2_P FMC Transceiver data transmission 2 P FMC_DP2_M2C_N 225_RX2_N FMC Transceiver data reception 2 N www.alinx.com 29 / 40...
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MINI USB interface. It can be connected to the USB port of a PC using a USB cable for serial data communication. The schematic diagram of USB Uart circuit design is shown in Figure 3-5-1: www.alinx.com 30 / 40...
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Figure 3-6-1 TF Card Slot Schematic SD Card Slot pin assignment: Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin Name Description SD_CD B65_L8_P SD Clock Signal SD_CLK B65_L9_N AA25 SD Command Signal SD_CMD B65_L9_P AA24 SD Data 0 www.alinx.com 31 / 40...
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The development board reserves a JTAG interface for downloading FPGA programs or solidifying programs to FLASH. In order to prevent damage to the FPGA chip caused by live plugging, we have added protective diodes to the www.alinx.com 32 / 40...
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3.9 Expansion Port The expansion board reserves two 40 pin expansion ports J33 and J34 with a standard spacing of 2.54mm, are used to connect various modules of ALINX or external circuits designed by the user. The expansion port has 40 signals, including 1 5V power supply, 2 3.3V power supplies, 3 ground ports, and 34 IO...
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J33_36 B84_L8_N AB14 IO 3.3V J33_37 Ground J33_38 Ground J33_39 power source 3.3V J33_40 power source 3.3V The circuit of the expansion port (J34) is shown in Figure 3-9-2 below: Figure 3-9-2 Expansion Port J34 Schematic www.alinx.com 35 / 40...
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KEY1 FPGA BANK KEY2 KEY2 Figure 3-10-1 Schematic of Key hardware design KEY FPGA pin assignment: Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin No. Description KEY1 B65_T2U User Key 1 KEY2 B65_T1U AA23 User Key 2 www.alinx.com 37 / 40...
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FPGA_DONE BANK0 电平转换 Figure 3-11-1 LED lights hardware connection diagram LED FPGA pin assignment: Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Pin No. Description LED1 B65_T0U User defined indicator light LED2 B64_T3U AC16 User defined indicator light www.alinx.com 38 / 40...
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ETA1471 1.8V/6A ETA1471 U175 VADJ/3A ETA1471 Figure 3-12-1 Power Supply Design Diagram The VADJ power supply can use a jump cap to change the power voltage to 1.2V and provide separate power to the FMC module. www.alinx.com 39 / 40...
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