Virtex-5 Board and Kit Documentation

This user guide introduces several designs that demonstrate Virtex®-5 device features using the ML505 (LXT), ML506 (SXT), and ML507 (FXT) Evaluation Platforms. The provided designs include processing systems based on the embedded PowerPC® 440 processor block, the MicroBlaze™ soft processor, the integrated Tri-mode Ethernet MAC, and the RocketIO™ GTP or GTX transceiver.

The ML505/ML506/ML507 Getting Started Tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and using the Virtex®-5 ML505, ML506, and ML507 Evaluation Platforms. These boards come with a number of pre-installed demonstrations. This tutorial guides you through these demonstrations and provides instructions to run them on the ML50x boards.

The ML50x boards enable designers to investigate and experiment with features of Virtex®-5 FPGAs. This user guide describes the features and operation of the ML505 (LXT), ML506 (SXT), and ML507 (FXT) Evaluation Platforms.

This user guide describes the features and operation of the Virtex®-5 LXT, SXT, and FXT prototype platforms and describes how to configure chains of FPGAs and serial PROMs.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and using the Virtex™-5 ML501 evaluation platform. The ML501 platform comes with a number of pre-installed demonstration and set-up programs. These programs are available on the System ACE interface, Platform Flash, and SPI Flash. This document guides designers through set-up and demonstration procedures.

This user guide introduces several designs that demonstrate Virtex™-5 LX device features using the ML501 Evaluation Platform.

This user guide provides a detailed description of each component and peripheral available on the ML501 Evaluation Platform. The ML501 board is a low-cost, entry-level platform for evaluation of Virtex®-5 LX FPGAs.

This user guide describes the features and operation of the Virtex®-5 LXT and FXT FPGAs series of RocketIO™ characterization platforms, which includes the ML521, ML523, and ML525 boards.

This user guide describes the features and operation of the Virtex®-5 LX FPGA prototype platform and provides instructions to configure chains of FPGAs and serial PROMs.

This user guide describes the Virtex®-5 FPGA ML550 Networking Interfaces board, which is the heart of the Virtex-5 FPGA ML550 Source-Synchronous Interfaces Tool Kit.

This user guide describes the Virtex™-5 FPGA ML555 Development Kit for PCI and PCI Express designs.

This user guide describes the Virtex®-5 FPGA ML561 Memory Interfaces Development Board, which is the heart of the Virtex-5 FPGA ML561 Memory Interfaces Tool Kit. The tool kit provides a complete development platform to interface with external memory devices for designing and verifying applications based on the Virtex-5 LXT Platform.

The XGI SuperClock Module User Guide provides an overview of functionality, operation, and configuration of the SuperClock module add-on board.