Digilent XUPV5 Board

The XUPV5™ Development Board (ML509) is a feature-rich unified platform, with on-board memory and industry standard connectivity interfaces, ideal for teaching and research. It features a powerful Virtex-5 XC5VLX110T FPGA. This board is well supported by ISE® Design suite and reference designs that demonstrate the use of the interfaces.

What is included?

The XUPV5 board featuring the XC5VLX110T-1FFG1136 FPGA
1GB Compact Flash card
256 MB SODIMM module
SATA cable
XUP USB-JTAG Programming Cable
DVI to VGA adapter
5V 4A switching power supply

Suggested use of this board

Student projects using any of the built-in features of the board
Designing combinatorial/sequential circuits
Creating embedded systems
Digital Signal Processing and Communications
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
Networking
Video and Image Processing
High Speed Serial I/O Transceivers

Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Features

17,280 logic slices, each with four 4-input LUTs and 4 flip-flops
5,328 Kbits of fast block RAM
Six clock management tiles (2 DCM and 1 PLL)
64 DSP slices
16 RocketIO (GTP) transceivers
One Endpoint block for PCIe
Four Ethernet MACs
Internal clock speeds exceeding 500 MHz

Key Features

Feature	Description
FPGA	XC5VLX110T-1FFG1136
I/O Interfaces	JTAG programming interface One 10/100/1000 Ethernet supporting MII, GMII, RGMII, and SGMII interfaces 2 USB supporting Host and Peripheral intefaces RS-232 (Male) port Video input Video (DVI/VGA) output Stereo AC97 codec with line in, line out, headphone, microphone, and SPDIF digital audio jackscks
Memory	64-bit wide 256Mbyte DDR2 small outline DIMM (SODIMM) module compatible with EDK supported IP and software drivers Two XCF32P Platform Flash PROMs (32Mbyte each) for storing large device configurations SystemACE™ Compact Flash configuration controller 1 MByte On-board 32-bit ZBT synchronous SRAM 32 MByte Intel P30 StrataFlash
Displays	16x2 character LCD
Switches and LEDs	8 DIP switches 8 LEDs 5 Push-buttons
Clocks	One 100 MHz oscillator Differential input-output clocks with SMA connectors
Expansion ports	Expansion header with 32 single-ended I/O, 16 LVDS-capable differential pairs, 14 spare I/Os shared with buttons and LEDs, power, JTAG chain expansion capability, and IIC bus expansionPmod for XADC signals Header for 2nd serial port Mictor Trace port

ISE Design Suite: WebPack Edition

ISE® WebPACK™ design software is the industry´s only FREE, fully featured front-to-back FPGA design solution for Linux, Windows XP, and Windows 7. ISE WebPACK is the ideal downloadable solution for FPGA and CPLD design offering HDL synthesis and simulation, implementation, device fitting, and JTAG programming. ISE WebPACK delivers a complete, front-to-back design flow providing instant access to the ISE features and functionality at no cost.

ISE Design Suite: System Edition

ISE® Design Suite is the Industry-proven solution for Xilinx programmable devices including 7 series (and pre-7 series devices) and Zynq™-7000 SoC. It facilitates designing and verification of digital circuits in the application areas of pure logic design, embedded system design, digital signal processing, communication by providing tools such as ChipScope Pro, Embedded Development Kit, Software Development Kit, System Generator for DSP, and High-Level Synthesis.

Digilent XUPV5 Board

What is included?

Suggested use of this board

Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Features

Key Features

Documentation

Design Examples

Workshops Material using ISE Design Suite

Videos