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Today the a new development board received. It has an Virtex5 FPGA soldered and a lot of I/O connections.

It is sold by Digilent Inc. as “Virtex-5 OpenSPARC Evaluation Kit”. Digilent has soldered a Virtex5 110T on the board instead of a Virtex5 50T as Xilinx on the ML505. All other components on the board are the same.

The first power on was quite amazing, I connected a serial cable to it and the first screen was the booting process of Linux on a OpenSPARC T1 Core. This was the impulse to download the T1 core and have a look to it.

Features:

• Xilinx Virtex-5 XC5VLX110T FPGA
• Two Xilinx XCF32P Platform Flash PROMs (32 Mbyte each) for storing large device configurations
• Xilinx SystemACE Compact Flash configuration controller
• 64-bit wide 256Mbyte DDR2 small outline DIMM (SODIMM) module compatible with EDK supported IP and software drivers
• On-board 32-bit ZBT synchronous SRAM and Intel P30 StrataFlash
• 10/100/1000 tri-speed Ethernet PHY supporting MII, GMII, RGMII, and SGMII interfaces
• USB host and peripheral controllers
• Programmable system clock generator
• Stereo AC97 codec with line in, line out, headphone, microphone, and SPDIF digital audio jacks
• RS-232 port, 16×2 character LCD, and many other I/O devices and ports

Connectors:

• USB (2) – Host and Peripheral
• PS/2 (2) – Keyboard, Mouse
• RJ-45 – 10/100/1000 Networking
• RS-232 (Male) – Serial port
• Audio In (2) – Line, Microphone
• Audio Out (2) – Line, Amp, SPDIF
• Video Input
• Video (DVI/VGA) Output
• Single-Ended and Differential I/O Expansion

Xilinx Page: http://www.xilinx.com/univ/xupv5-lx110t.htm

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