Sargon FMC+ DevKit
Presentation of the Stratix® 10 GX development kit
Product overview
The Stratix® 10 GX development kit is based on an Intel® Stratix® 10 GX 2800 KLEs FPGA. It comes as a getting-started package, including a Stratix® 10 GX PCIe board, and all the schematics and reference designs needed to start working on the board.
Featuring a PCIe Gen3 x16, one FMC+ connector and GPIO and XCVR extension connectors, the Stratix® 10 GX development kit provides developers with the best out-of-the box experience and best-in class compact hardware platform.
The Stratix® 10 GX FPGA device is optimized for PFGA applications that require high transceiver bandwidth and core fabric performance.
The FPGA board is delivered with a 2-slot PCI-Express active heatsink, and is specifically optimized for acceleration and embedded applications.
Target markets include high-performance computing and IP and ASIC prototyping.
Benefits & features
- Intel® Stratix® 10 GX 2800 KLEs
- PCIe Gen3 x16
- Board Management Controller (BMC) for monitoring, NOR Flash and clock programming
- 1x FMC+ (VITA57.4) with 20 XCVR up to 28Gb/s
- GPIO extension connector : 9 LVDS usable as 18 LVCMOS
- XCVR extension connector : 10 XCVR, 8 LVDS, Clock In&Out
Our Stratix® 10 GX development board offers primary interfaces, connectors and components, such as numerous transceivers, NOR flash and DDR4 memory, external additional RDIMM memory, high-speed links, and more.
The FPGA is a Stratix® 10 GX.
The Stratix® 10 is one of the best-performing and latest FPGA families developed by Intel®. Delivering an unprecedented doubled performance, up to 70% lower power (leading to lower power consumption), up to 10.2 million LEs, and the highest level of system integration, the Intel® Stratix® 10 processor is uniquely positioned to address next-generation, high-performance systems in the most demanding applications. This semiconductor device is optimized for FPGA applications that require the highest transceiver bandwidth and core fabric performance.
FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) are used to offer high-capacity logic and memory storage.
The FPGA design of our Stratix® 10 GX development kit is programmed for data centers and acceleration applications.
The Stratix® 10 GX development kit offers many advantages. This starter kit can be used as an evaluation board to start testing your design, reducing your time to market. It can also be used as a dev board for prototypes.
The Stratix® 10 GX development kit has a full-height 2-slot form factor, specially designed to fit into industry-standard servers and chassis as well as in custom rack systems.
The Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, commonly known as PCI Express, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard. Our FPGA board offers a PCI-Express x16 slot. Added to an Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA, it makes our boards quick and efficient.
We draw on our development tools (firmware, hardware and software skills, available schematics, datasheet and electronic design tools) to significantly reduce the time to market for your embedded project.
The Stratix® 10 GX development kit is RoHS and REACH standard compliant.
Our Stratix® 10 GX development kit is specially designed for customer needs, specifications and constraints.
Our sales team is available to advise you on the best solution according to your needs, at sales@reflexces.com.
Diagrams
Block diagram of the Stratix® 10 GX development kit:
Tech specs
FPGA
- Intel® Stratix® 10 GX 2800 KLEs
- PCIe Gen3 x16
Board Programming
- Max10 USB Blaster on board, UART over USB interface
- 1x Nor Flash 1GB quad SPI FPGA AS configuration
- 1x Nor Flash 1GB for configuration mode ST8
- Board Management Controller (BMC) for monitoring, NOR Flash and clock programming
Memory
- 2x banks DDR4 vertical RDIMM, 16GBytes each, x72bit, up to 2400MT/s. The RDIMMs are not provided but can be purchased separately
- 1x bank DDR4 soldered on PCB, bus x72, 8GBytes up to 2400MT/s
Communication & Interfaces
- 2x FireFly™ Samtec quad connector (28Gb/s each XCVR) - 1 FireFly™ connected to 100G IP
- 1x FMC+ (VITA57.4) with 24 XCVR, 20 XCVR up to 28Gb/s, 4 XCVR up to 17.4Gb/s, 2x Hard IP 100G transceivers blocks capable
- MiniSAS quad connector (1 HD SAS, 4 SATA HDD, NVMe interface capable)
- GPIO extension connector : 9 LVDS usable as 18 LVCMOS
- XCVR extension connector : 10 XCVR, 8 LVDS, Clock In&Out
- 1x Ethernet SGMII interface (to FPGA), Marvel PHY 88E11
Clock Circuitry
- Programmable PLL oscillator (Si5341), output clocks frequency between 0.0001 MHz to 750 MHz
- High precision oscillator, clock accuracy 20MHz- 0.01ppm for Precision Time Protocol (PTP) IEEE 1588
- One coax connector for PPS (pulse per second)
Board Size
- Length : 254 mm (10 inches)
- Height : 111.15 mm (4.38 inches) / Standard Height PCIe
- Dual slot PCIe
Power : Max 240W including FMC board, delivered with active heat-sink
Operating Range : 0°C to 40°C
Storage Temp Range : 0°C to 70°C
Videos
REFLEX CES Stratix® 10 Development Kit demo featuring Samtec 14Gbps FireFly™ FMC board :
REFLEX CES Stratix® 10 Development Kit demo featuring Samtec 14Gbps FireFly™ FMC board, at Electronica 2018 tradeshow :
REFLEX CES Stratix® 10 standard PCIe boards comparison :
UNBOXING your REFLEX CES Sargon Stratix® 10 FPGA FMC+ Development Kit :
REFLEX CES Stratix® 10 Development Kit demo featuring Samtec 28Gbps FireFly™ FMC+ board :
Samtec presents the Embedded Optical Development Platform For FMC+, a video from SC19 :
Deliverables
Deliverables
- Sargon Stratix® 10 GX FMC+ DevKit
- Power adapter (US, UK, EU, JP) and Micro USB2.0 cable
- PDF Documentation (Starter Guide, Hardware Reference Manual, FMC interconnect pinout file)
- PDF Mechanical drawings, 3D step, PDF assembly files
- HDL test designs (Quartus projects)
- Online support at support.reflexces.com
Kit Ordering Information
RXCS10X280HPF50-IDK10A // Development Kit, Intel® Stratix® 10 GX, H-Tile version (1SG280HU1F50E2VG)
RXC16GB-RDIM10A // 1x 16GB DDR4 VLP RDIMM - to purchase separately
Use cases
Explore our 2 practical demos (14 Gbps and 25/28 Gbps) to understand how this solution meets your needs!
14 Gbps FireFly™ FMC démo:
A glimpse in pictures...
... and a video immersion
25/28 Gbps FireFly™ FMC+ démo:
A glimpse in pictures...
... and a video immersion
Export control ECCN
ECCN Number : EAR99
CECC (commodity Export Classification Certificate) : Download certificate
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