Prototyping PCI Module

Overview

The PCI evaluation board can be used to evaluate all emsys IP cores on PCI-based x86-Systems. The board accepts several USB/Firewire/Ethernet physical modules.

Key Features

The board contains the following components, as shown in the picture on top of this page:

• VIRTEX2 FPGA XC2V1000/XC2V1500/XC2V2000

• FPGA design can be downloaded through software or ditect JTAG connection
  
• Header connectors to extend the board with daughter boards for various tasks (USB High-speed PHY, USB FS/LS PHY, IEEE 1394 PHY)
  
• User interfaces like LED, DIP-switches, buttons, General Purpose I/O's
  
• Probe Mictor Connectors on each daughter board expansion
• Voltage monitor LEDs
• Xilinx configuration EEPROM XC18V04
• AMD Flash EEPROM Am29LV040B
• Xilinx CPLD XC9572 for configuration tasks
• PCI interface
• On-board voltage supplies (1.5V/3.3V)
• On-board clock generation (48MHz and mounting option)
  

The FPGA design can be stored in a Xilinx serial EPROM using the JTAG interface. Additionally, it is possible to do design updates through PCI.

Requirements

• x86 PC 32bit architecture
• At least 1 free PCI slot, 33MHz 32bit
• Linux OS, kernel 2.4 or higher