KCU116 Board User Guide 5
UG1239 (v1.2) September 28, 2018 www.xilinx.com
Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
The KCU116 evaluation board for the Xilinx
®
Kintex
®
UltraScale+
™
FPGA provides a
hardware environment for developing and evaluating designs targeting the UltraScale+
XCKU5P-2FFVB676E device. The KCU116 evaluation board provides features common to
many evaluation systems, including:
• DDR4 component memory
• High-definition multimedia interface (HDMI
™
)
• Four zSmall form-factor pluggable plus (zSFP+) connectors
• Eight-lane PCI Express
®
interface
• Ethernet PHY
• General purpose I/O
•Two UART interfaces
Other features can be supported using VITA-57.1 FPGA mezzanine cards (FMC) attached to
the high pin count (HPC) FMC connector.
Additional Resources
See Appendix D, Additional Resources and Legal Notices for references to documents, files,
and resources relevant to the KCU116 evaluation board.