AMD Kintex7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit

by: AMD

The Kintex™ 7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit includes all the basic components of hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs including a targeted design enabling high-performance serial connectivity and advanced memory interfacing.

Overview

This board is currently not available.

Please consider the Virtex 7 FPGA VC709 Connectivity Kit as an alternative.

Product Description

The Kintex™ 7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit includes all the basic components of hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs including a targeted design enabling high-performance serial connectivity and advanced memory interfacing. The included pre-verified reference designs and industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Connectors (FMC) allow scaling and customization with daughter cards.


Key Features & Benefits

  • Optimized for quickly prototyping high performance serial transceiver applications using Kintex 7 FPGAs
  • Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs
  • Demonstrates an end to end PCIe configured with 4 lanes at a 5 Gb/s link rate (Gen2) or 8 lanes at a 2.5 Gb/s link rate (Gen1)
  • Advanced memory interface with 1GB DDR3 SODIM Memory
  • Enabling serial connectivity with PCIe Gen2x4, SFP+ and SMA Pairs, UART, IIC
  • Supports embedded processing with MicroBlaze, soft 32bit RISC
  • Develop networking applications with 10-100-1000 Mbps Ethernet (GMII, RGMII and SGMII​)
  • Implement Video display applications with HDMI out
  • Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface

Featured AMD Devices

Featuring the ROHS compliant KC705 kit including the XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA

Logic Cells 326,080
DSP Slices 840
Memory 16,020
GTX Transceivers
16
I/O Pins 500
kintex-7-bk-chip

Featured Partners

ADV7511 HDMI transmitter
Programmable MEMS Oscillators

Product Information

Specifications

Board Features

Featuring the KC705 Base Board

KC705 Base Board

Clocking

  • Fixed Oscillator with differential 200MHz output
  • Used as the “system” clock for the FPGA
  • Programmable Oscillator with 156.250 MHz as the default output
  • Default frequency targeted for Ethernet applications but oscillator is programmable for many end uses
  • Differential SMA clock input
  • Differential SMA GTX reference clock input
  • Jitter attenuated clock
  • Used to support CPRI/OBSAI applications that perform clock recovery from a user-supplied SFP/SFP+ module

Expansion Connectors

  • FMC-HPC (Partial Population) connector (4 GTX Transceiver, 116 single-ended or 58 differential (34 LA & 24 HA) user defined signals)
  • FMC-LPC connector (1 GTX Transceiver, 68 single-ended or 34 differential user defined signals)
  • Vadj can support 1.8V, 2.5V, or 3.3V
  • IIC

Configuration

  • Onboard JTAG configuration circuitry to enable configuration over USB
  • JTAG header provided for use with AMD download cables such as the Platform Cable USB II
  • 128MB (1024Mb) Linear BPI Flash for PCIe® Configuration
  • 16MB (128Mb) Quad SPI Flash

Communication & Networking

  • Gigabit Ethernet GMII, RGMII and SGMII
  • SFP / SFP+ cage
  • GTX port (TX, RX) with four SMA connectors
  • UART To USB Bridge
  • PCI Express x8 edge connector

Analog

  • XADC header

Control & I/O

  • 5X Push Buttons
  • 4X DIP Switches
  • Diff Pair I/O (1 SMA pair)
  • AMS FAN Header (2 I/O)
  • 7 I/O pins available through LCD header

Memory

  • 1GB DDR3 SODIMM 800MHz / 1600Mbps
  • 128MB (1024Mb) Linear BPI Flash for PCIe® Configuration
  • 16MB (128Mb) Quad SPI Flash
  • 8Kb IIC EEPROM
  • SD Card Slot

Display

  • HDMI Video output
  • External Phy/codec device driving an HDMI Connector
  • 2x16 LCD display
  • 8x LEDs

Power

  • 12V wall adapter or ATX
  • Voltage and Current measurement capability of 2.5V, 1.5V, and 1.2V, 1.0V supplies (IIC path to FPGA)
What's Inside

What's Inside

KC705 Evaluation Board

Featuring the XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA

Full seat Vivado™ Design Suite: Design Edition

Node locked & Device-locked to the Kintex 7 XC7K325T FPGA, with 1 year of updates and support

Ethernet Cable

HDMI Cable

USB Micro Cable

USB Mini Cable

Power Cords and Adapter

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Tools & IP

Design Tools

Name Description License Type
Vivado Design Suite Design Edition The AMD Vivado™ Design Suite is a revolutionary IP and System Centric design environment built from the ground up to accelerate the design for FPGAs and SoCs. Node locked & Device-locked to the Kintex 7 XC7K325T FPGA, with 1 year of updates

Intellectual Property

Name Description License Type
PCI Express DMA Engine (Northwest Logic) Northwest Logic’s PCI Express DMA Back-End Core Hardware Time Out Evaluation license for the Northwest Logic DMA implemented with and limited to an AXI DMA Back-End interface
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Memory Interface Generator (MIG) MIG is a free software tool used to generate memory controllers and interfaces for AMD FPGAs No-Charge IP

Additional Tools, IP and Resources

Provider Name Product Category Item Description
Red Hat Operating System Fedora v16.2 being used for 7-series TRDs
Open Source Software Tool TeraTerm One of many possible terminal emulators used for serial connection from your PC to the evaluation kit.
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