Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA VC7203 User Manual

12 www.xilinx.com VC7203 IBERT Getting Started Guide
UG847 (v3.0) July 10, 2013
Chapter 1: VC7203 IBERT Getting Started Guide
Configuring the FPGA
This section describes how to configure the FPGA using the SD card included with the
board. The FPGA can also be configured through the Vivado Design Suite software using
the .bit files and .ltx probe files which are available online (as collection
rdf0272_2013_2.zip) at:
www.xilinx.com/vc7203
To configure from the SD card:
1. Insert the SD card provided with the VC7203 board into the SD card reader slot located
on the bottom-side (upper-right corner) of the VC7203 board.
2. Plug the 12V output from the power adapter into connector J2 on the VC7203 board.
3. Connect the host computer to the VC7203 board using a standard-A plug to Micro-B
plug USB cable. The standard-A plug connects to a USB port on the host computer and
the Micro-B plug connects to U8, the Digilent USB JTAG configuration port on the
VC7203 board.
4. Select the GTX IBERT demonstration with the System ACE™ SD controller SYSACE-2
CFG switch, SW8. The setting on this 4-bit DIP switch (Figure 1-9) selects the file used
to configure the FPGA. A switch is in the ON position if set to the far right and in the
OFF position if set to the far left. For the Quad 115 GTX IBERT demonstration, set
X-Ref Target - Figure 1-8
Figure 1-8: Cable Connections for Quad 115 GTX IBERT Demonstration
UG847_c1_08_110612
QUAD_115
CLKOUT_1 N
CLKOUT_1 P
TX/RX Loopback
Connections

Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA VC7203 Specifications

General

FPGA Family	Virtex-7
Device	XC7VX485T
Transceivers	16
Maximum Transceiver Speed	12.5 Gbps
Transceiver Type	GTX
DSP Slices	2, 800
Block RAM	37, 080 KB
Clock Management Tiles	12
PCIe Gen2/Gen3 Support	Yes
Package	FFG1761