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Seeking 2 People to RoadTest an FPGA Board

rscasny

Hi All. I have been talking to a sponsor who's interested in having element14 roadtest one of its FPGA boards. We are looking for someone who is familiar with AMD products and design tools. It's about a $700 board and have significant capabilities. Let me describe the high points below. If you are interested, please vote in the poll.

imageHere's some basic information on the AUBoard 15P FPGA Development Kit:

The board is based on the AMD AMD Artix UltraScale+ 15P FPGA, featuring 170K logic cells, 12 GTH transceivers, 7.6 Mb on-chip memory, and 576 DSP slices. It's a great board to experiment with and learn the AMD Artix UltraScale+ Tm architecture. Whether you want to explore bare metal, RTOS, or Linux software, the AUBoard 15P will give you a solid base foundation to experiment.

The board also features 2GB of ISSI DDR4 and non-volatile configuration and boot from the 512Mb of ISSI QSPI Flash. A Microchip PHY enables the 10/100 Ethernet interface. A microUSB port provides on-board JTAG/UART access. A Renesas clock generator and ECS crystal oscillators provide clocking to the AU15P device, GTH transceivers, JTAG, and communication interfaces. All 12 GTH transceivers are brought out to SFP+ 10 GbE Ethernet (1), HDMI 2.0 Rx & Tx (3), and PCIe end point (4) interfaces and FMC (4) I/O expansion.

A temperature sensor from STMicroelectronics adds environmental data to the system. Additionally, 80 FPGA I/Os are exposed through the Samtec connectors for FMC LPC high-speed expansion and one Click BoardTm site.

Target applications include: Embedded vision, Embedded processing, Wired communications, Prototyping & experimentation, and Industrial networking

Are are some of the features:

  • AMD Xilinx Artix UltraScale+ 15P FPGA
    170K logic cells
    12 GTH transceivers
    7.6 Mb on-chip memory
    576 DSP slices
    ISSI 2GB DDR4 memory
  • ISSI 512Mb QSPI Flash memory (configuration and boot)
  • PetaLinux BSP available for download
  • Microchip 10/100 MII wired Ethernet PHY and MAC ID EEPROM
  • Renesas and TDK power devices
  • On-board JTAG and UART debug interface
  • STMicroelectronics temperature sensor
  • Expansion with 1 Click site and FMC LPC enabled by Samtec connectors
  • 4x GTH transceivers on the FMC
  • User RGB and monochrome LEDs
  • User slide and push button switches
  • HDMI 2.0 Rx & Tx
  • SFP+ 10Gb Ethernet
  • PCIe Gen. 4 x4 end point interface

Here are some links to documentation:

RoadTester Poll

  • FPGA programming is high on my list to add to my skillset, however learning doesn't fit the needs of this road test. 

  • 576 DSP slices - wow. Unfortunately I don't have the tools or experience to tackle this.

  • I'd love to be considered for the AUBoard 15P FPGA Development Kit roadtest!

    Having spent significant time working with the ZCU111 RFSoC, I'm quite comfortable with the AMD ecosystem - Vivado, Vitis, and Petalinux are tools I use regularly in my work projects in the telecommunications area. This experience would help me hit the ground running with the AUBoard 15P without a steep learning curve.

    What really excites me about this opportunity is getting hands-on with the newer Artix Ultrascale+ architecture. I've been looking forward to testing some of my PL designs on this platform and thoroughly exploring what it can do. The Gen 4x4 PCIe interface, SFP+ connectivity, and FMC expansion options are particularly interesting features I'm eager to put through their paces.

  • in reply to venkat01

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    The Artix UltraScale+ AU15P sits at the sweet spot in the Artix US+ segment of the FPGA's with the PCIe Gen4x4

  • Very Interested, but unfortunately not enough free time available to dive into this.

  • Far too big for my purposes - I do embedded FPGA for data acquisition and local processing - all those Gbit ports would be wasted.

    MK

  • In my current company FPGA boards are the main processing units and microcontrollers are secondary units, lack of knowledge on how to use FPGA boards keeps me from leveling up. I am interested in this, but I'm not familiar with AMD products and tools, so I might not be the ideal person to roadtest this board.

  • I am super interested and have been using AMD/Xilinx FPGAs and Versal ACAP devices for over 5 years now.  My development environment includes multiple Ubuntu as well as MS Windows server class machines that I can compare and contrast differences in the board compared with other boards I have used.  I could test the PCIe capabilities as well as the fiber connectivity to another board using the Aurora protocol as well as the DSP dedicated logic on the FPGA fabric.  I have multiple micro-click boards and it will be interesting to test the temperature sensors. Since it is an Ultrascale+ implementation, I am super experienced with this technology and can implement a soft-core processor as well using either an M1 or a Risk-V design.  I already have complete Vivado and Vitis 2024.2 versions installed.

    This sounds like a really cool testing and Road Testing project.  I had already road tested the AVNET ZUBoard 1CG previously.

    Super easy to test the I/O such as the tri-colored LED and switches. This shouldn’t take long at all to accomplish.  I also have fiber and SFP+ transceivers to test out the GTH tranceivers.

    This would be really fun! 

  • As an existing owner of a Genesys 2 FPGA development board (Kintex 7), I'm very interested in roadtesting an UltraScale+ as I've used them in the past for work and had fun optimising structures to that architecture. I hope I have access to all relevant IPs though as I see some HDMI ports which are usually gated by some pretty costly IP and paywalled specs.