WARP FPGA Board
Hardware version 2.2The 2nd generation FPGA board is the latest addition to the WARP hardware platform. At its heart is a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA, which provides all the node's processing resources. This board provides daughtercard slots that are compatible with all current WARP daughtercards.
Key Features:
- Xilinx Virtex-4 FX100 FPGA
(XC4VFX100-11FFG1517C) - 10/100/1000 Ethernet (Marvell 88e1111 PHY)
- 4 WARP daughtercard slots
- 8 Multi-gigabit transceivers:
- 2 SATA interfaces (1 target, 1 host)
- 2 SFP interfaces
- 4 HSSDC2 interfaces
- DDR2 SO-DIMM slot (2GB SO-DIMM included with board)
- 2 UART interfaces (1 on-board USB-UART, 1 DB9 RS-232)
- User I/O (16 LEDs, 5 push buttons, 3 seven segment displays, 16-bit 3.3v I/O)
- USB, JTAG & CompactFlash FPGA configuration
Documentation
FPGA Boards Comparison
The WARP FPGA Board v2 improves on the design of the original WARP FPGA Board v1. The table below offers a side-by-side comparison of some key features.| FPGA Resources | ||
| FPGA Board v2 | FPGA Board v1 | |
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| Device | Virtex-4 FX100 (XC4VFX100-11FFG1517C) |
Virtex-II Pro P70 (XC2VP70-6FF1517C) |
| Logic Slices | 42k | 33k |
| 18x18 Multipliers | 160 | 328 |
| 18kb Block RAMs | 376 | 328 |
| PowerPC Cores | 2 | 2 |
| Hard Ethernet MAC Cores |
4 | 0 |
| More Information | Virtex-4 Docs | Virtex-II Pro Docs |
| Board Resources | ||
| FPGA Board v2 | FPGA Board v1 | |
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| Daughtercard Slots | 4 | 4 |
| Memory | Up to 2GB (DDR2 SO-DIMM Slot) | Two 2MB ZBT SRAM |
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| UART |
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