IC-FEP-VPX6e Interface Concept UltraScale FPGA 6U VPX Board

The Interface Concept IC-FEP-VPX6e UltraScale FPGA 6U VPX Board is controlled by a QorIQ LS1046A processor integrating quad 64-bit Arm Cortex A72 cores with high-performance Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) and network peripheral interfaces required by demanding processing applications.

The QorIQ LS1046A provides the usual external interfaces: Ethernet, PCI Express, Serial and USB ports. In addition, an eUSB connector offers the capability to integrate a SSD module. PX6e - The PCIe advanced switch allows versatile coupling between the processor, the FPGAs and the fabric links of P1 VPX connector (Non-transparent configuration possible).
Thanks to the IC MultiWare software package and its simplified API, it is easy to integrate the IC-FEP-VPX6e in heterogeneous multi-domains PCIe architectures.
Other Fabric Links of the VPX backplane are directly connected to the two FPGAs GTH transceivers, the latter being directly interconnected via 12 GTY lanes and 24 differentials pairs.

Interface Concept has based the IC-FEP-VPX6e design on the Xilinx FPGA package B1204, providing the board with a high scalability level. While the standard configuration comes with the Kintex UltraScale KU115, facotry upgraded configurations with Virtex UltraScaleor or Virtex UltraScale+ are manufactured.

Each FPGA is coupled with two DDR4 SDRAM memory banks (supporting up to 2400 MT/s transfers), one factory optional QDRII+ SRAM memory bank and one SPI Mirror flash memory for local bitstreams storage and for user parameters.

Both FMC+ sites are compliant with the FPGA Mezzanine Card standard (VITA 57.4), allowing to add FMC and FMC+ modules provided by IC, third-parties or developed by customers.