FM680 User Manual r1.7
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Table of Contents
1Acronyms..................................................................................................................... 4
2Related Documents..................................................................................................... 4
3General description..................................................................................................... 5
4Installation ................................................................................................................... 6
4.1 Requirements and handling instructions.................................................................. 6
4.2 Firmware and software............................................................................................ 6
5Design .......................................................................................................................... 6
5.1 FPGA devices......................................................................................................... 6
5.1.1 Virtex-5 device family and package.................................................................. 6
5.1.2 Virtex-6 device family and package.................................................................. 6
5.2 Inter-FPGA interface ............................................................................................... 6
5.3 PCI-express architecture......................................................................................... 9
5.4 XMC P15 connector...............................................................................................10
5.5 XMC P16 connector...............................................................................................12
5.6 Pn4 user I/O connector ..........................................................................................13
5.7 Serial FLASH .........................................................................................................14
5.8 BLAST sites ...........................................................................................................14
5.9 External IO interfaces.............................................................................................15
5.9.1 Front Panel daughter card...............................................................................15
5.9.2 Power connection to the front panel I/O daughter card....................................19
5.9.3 Front Panel optical transceivers ......................................................................19
5.9.4 Optical transceiver MGT Reference Clock.......................................................21
5.10 FPGA LED..........................................................................................................21
5.11 FPGA configuration ............................................................................................23
5.11.1 Flash storage ..................................................................................................23
5.11.2 CPLD device...................................................................................................23
5.11.3 JTAG...............................................................................................................25
5.12 Clock tree ...........................................................................................................26
6Power requirements...................................................................................................27
6.1 External power connector for stand alone mode.....................................................30
7Environment................................................................................................................31
7.1 Temperature ..........................................................................................................31
7.2 Convection cooling.................................................................................................31
7.3 Conduction cooling.................................................................................................31
8Safety...........................................................................................................................31
9EMC .............................................................................................................................31
10 Technical support.......................................................................................................32
11 Warranty......................................................................................................................32
