Xilinx VC709 User Manual

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UG887 (v1.0) February 4, 2013
Chapter 1
VC709 Evaluation Board Features
Overview
The VC709 evaluation board for the Virtex®-7 FPGA provides a hardware environment for
developing and evaluating designs targeting the Virtex-7 XC7VX690T-2FFG1761CES
FPGA. The VC709 board provides features common to many embedded processing
systems, including dual DDR3 small outline dual-inline memory module (SODIMM)
memories, an 8-lane PCI Express® interface, general purpose I/O, and a UART interface.
Other features can be added by using mezzanine cards attached to the VITA-57 FPGA
mezzanine connector (FMC) provided on the board. A high pin count (HPC) FMC is
provided. See VC709 Board Features for a complete list of features. The details for each
feature are described in Feature Descriptions, page 7.
Additional Information
See Appendix F, Additional Resources for references to documents, files, and resources
relevant to the VC709 board.
VC709 Board Features
• Virtex-7 XC7VX690T-2FFG1761CES FPGA
• 2X 4 GB 1866MTs DDR3 memory SODIMMs
• 128 MB linear byte-wide peripheral interface (BPI) flash memory
• USB JTAG through Digilent module
• Clock generation
• Fixed 200 MHz LVDS oscillator
• Fixed 233.33 MHz LVDS oscillator
•I
2
C programmable LVDS oscillator
• SMA connectors
• SMA connectors for GTH transceiver clocking
•GTH transceivers
• FMC HPC connector (eight transceivers)
• SMA connectors (one pair for MGT_REFCLK)
• PCI Express (eight lanes)
• 4 X Small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+) connectors
• PCI Express endpoint connectivity
• Gen1 8-lane (x8)

Xilinx VC709 Specifications

General

Brand	Xilinx
Model	VC709
Category	Motherboard
Language	English