Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit
Xilinx announced the Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit. The Targeted Design Platform is optimized for industrial automation system design with low-cost, low-power Xilinx Spartan-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Xilinx Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform accelerates development of real-time Ethernet networks. The Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit is available now from Avnet in limited quantities with general availability in April 2010. The kit is priced at $1,895 (US).
The kit includes the Avnet Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA development board and industrial networking daughter card based on the industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) specification, third-party evaluation EtherCAT core from Beckhoff, ISE Design Suite Embedded Edition software environment, and an EtherCAT Targeted Reference Design. Future add-ons for the Industrial Ethernet Kit will offer additional daughter cards and reference designs to enable faster time to market for designing factory automation applications.
Xilinx Spartan-6 LX150T Development Board
- Xilinx XC6SLX150T-3FGG676 FPGA
- PCI Express x4 end-point
- One SFP module connector
- SATA host connector
- Two general-purpose GTP ports via FMC expansion slots
- GTP clock input via differential SMA connectors
- GTP programmable LVDS clock generator
- On-board 100 MHz LVTTL oscillator
- On-board LVTTL oscillator socket
- 128 MB DDR3 SDRAM
- 32 MB of Flash
- Platform Flash configuration memory
- SD card connector
- Two FMC LPC expansion slots
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet PHY
- JTAG programming/configuration port
- RS232 port
- USB-RS232 port
- USB 2.0 interface
- Eight LEDs
- 8-position user DIP switch
- Four push-button switches
- Avnet LCD Interface (ALI) connector
- Temperature sensor
- Real-time clock
Industrial Networking Daughter Card
- FMC LPC single-width module
- Dual Port 10/100 Ethernet (IEEE1588 Capable PHY)
- Dual CAN PHY Interface
- RS-232
- RS-485
- Two LEDs
- Two push-button switches
- 4-position user DIP switch
- Supports PMod expansion cards
More info: Xilinx Industrial Solutions | Avnet
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