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Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA KC724 Characterization Kit

by: Xilinx, Inc

  • Part Number: CK-K7-KC724-G
  • Lead Time: Discontinued

Overview

Important Notice:

This development kit has been discontinued per PDN advisory XCN19008 and is no longer offered for sale.  The solutions targeted for this product will not be updated moving forward with limited support available from Xilinx.

Product Description

The Kintex®-7 FPGA KC724 Characterization Kit provides the hardware environment for characterizing and evaluating 16 GTX (12.5Gbps) transceivers of the on-board Kintex-7 K325T FPGA. The KC724 allows evaluation of the Integrated Bit Error Ratio Test (IBERT) demonstration using either the Vivado® or ISE® design suites. Each GTX Quad and its associated reference clock are routed from the FPGA to a connector pad which is designed to interface with a Samtec BullsEye connector.  A cable enabled with a BullsEye connector and 10 standard SMAs allows users to connect to a broad range of evaluation platforms, from backplanes and optical evaluation boards to high speed test equipment.  Each BullsEye connector handles a full GTX Quad, four transmit/receive pairs as well as the two independent reference clocks, enabling the highest level of flexibility in testing custom applications.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Hardware environment for characterizing and evaluating 16 GTX (12.5Gbps) transceivers on Kintex-7 FPGAs
  • Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs
  • Integrated Bit Error Ratio Test (IBERT) reference design
  • Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface
  • BullsEye connector supporting a full GTX Quad, with four transmit/receive pairs
  • System ACE™ SD controller
  • Four Samtec BullsEye connector pads for the GTX transceivers and reference clocks
  • Two pairs of differential MRCC inputs with SMA connectors

Featured Xilinx Devices

Featuring the ROHS compliant KC724 kit including the XC7K325T-3FFG900E FPGA

Logic Cells 326,080
DSP Slices 840
Memory (Kb) 16,020
GTX Transceivers 16
I/0 Pins 500
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Product Information

Specifications

Board Features

Featuring the Kintex-7 KC724 Evaluation Board

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Communication & Networking

  • Four Samtec BullsEye connector pads for the GTX transceivers and reference clocks
  • Two pairs of differential MRCC inputs with SMA connectors
  • USB-to-UART bridge

Clocking

  • Fixed, 200 MHz 2.5V LVDS oscillator wired to multi-region clock capable (MRCC) inputs
  • SuperClock-2 module supporting multiple frequencies

Display

  • Power status LEDs
  • General purpose DIP switches, LEDs, push buttons, and test I/O

Expansion Connectors

  • Three VITA 57.1 FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) high pin count (HPC) connectors

Configuration

  • Digilent USB JTAG programming port

Memory

  • System ACE™ SD controller

Control & I/O

  • I2C Bus

Power

  • PMBus connectivity to on-board digital power supplies
What's Inside

What's Inside

KC724 Evaluation Board

Featuring the Kintex-7 XC7K325T-3FFG900E FPGA

Full seat Vivado® Design Suite: Design Edition

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

Samtec Bullseye Cable

10 standard SMAs

Superclock-2 Module Supporting Multiple Frequencies

Resources

Documentation
Default Default Title Document Type Date
Tools & IP

Design Tools

Name Description License Type
Vivado Design Suite Design Edition The Xilinx 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-3FFG900E FPGA, with 1 year of updates
Training & Support

Training

Support