NAMC-ARRIA10-FMC

The NAMC-ARRIA10-FMC is a high-performance AMC carrier card for FMC modules and supports HPC and LPC connector FMC modules as defined by VITA 57.1.

The heart of the board is formed by the Intel/Altera Arria10 FPGA in NF40 BGA-1517 package with high count I/O to facilitate the connectivity of all required FMC HPC connector pins with the FPGA core. Intel Arria10 FPGAs deliver massive performance and power consumption improvements compared to prior-generation FPGAs, both midrange and high-end devices. The board is available in various FPGA configurations beginning from SX570 over SX660 (with embedded dual ARM core CPU) up to GX1150.

The capability of carrying both HPC and LPC FMC modules allows it to be used in a wide range of applications providing data acquisition, networking, RF, or other functionality. Typical applications might be wireless base stations, camera systems or generic research applications which require high speed sensor data conversions from analogue to digital.

The NAMC-ARRIA10-FMC has three FPGA/CPU-dedicated high dense DDR4 memory interfaces with a total amount of up to 16 Gigabytes. To simplify the user interaction with the FPGA/SoC, the front panel of the board gives access to the MicroSD card and the onboard Altera Blaster II circuitry for comfortable JTAG access without any probe or adapter needed.

• AMC form factor, single mid- or full-size

FPGA

• Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA (SoC): GX1150 / GX900 / GX660 (standard) / SX660 / GX 570 / SX 570
  • Up to 1150k LE, 47Mbit memory, 48 SerDes lanes, 588 I/O (GX1150 version)
  • Up to 16 GB of DDR4 memory with ECC
  • 128 MB Flash configuration memory
• CPU (SX variant only): Dual core ARM Cortex A9, up to 1.5GHz
• Programming interface
  • Onboard Intel (Altera) header connector
  • Embedded USB-Blaster circuitry
  • Front panel USB connector
  • IPMI/HPM via onboard MMC controller

Memory SX660 / SX570 variants

• 4 GB DDR4 ECC memory dedicated to CPU
• 8 GB DDR4 (x64) memory bank with ECC dedicated to FPGA
• 4 GB DDR4 (x32) memory bank with ECC dedicated to FPGA
• 128 MB FPGA configuration flash (QSPI)
• 128 MB Boot flash memory
• MicroSD card slot for operating system and storage

Memory GX1150 / GX800 / GX660 / GX570 variants

• 8 GB DDR4 (x64) memory bank with ECC dedicated to FPGA
• 8 GB DDR4 (x32) memory bank with ECC dedicated to FPGA
• 128 MB HPS configuration flash (QSPI)
• HPS MicroSD / eMMC

FMC slot

• Single High Pin Count FMC slot,
• VITA 57.1 compliant
• All HPC differential pairs (LA/HA/HB) are routed to the FPGA
• DP0 to DP09 are routed to the FPGA

Front Panel Connectivity

• Access to the FMC board front panel I/O interfaces
• Dual UART-USB to ARM core (SX660, SX570 only) and MMC
• USB to Embedded USB-Blaster circuitry
• Application LEDs
• Status / Fault / Hot-Swap LEDs

Backplane Connectivity

• 2x 1 GbE at AMC Ports 0/1
• 2x SATA/SAS at AMC Ports 2/3
• One x8 PCI Express Gen3 connect to AMC Ports 4-11 or
• Dual x4 PCI Express Gen3 to AMC Ports 4-7 and Ports 8-11 or
• Dual x4 SRIO Gen2 to AMC Ports 4-7 and Ports 8-11
• Any Combinations of PCIe, SRIO, XAUI (on request)
• Full AMC TCLKA-D and FCLKA connectivity (bidirectional)
• Point to point connectivity: AMC Ports 12-15 routed to FPGA (2x 4 LVDS)
• 8x MLVDS trigger lines to AMC Ports 17-20

Software / Firmware

• IPMI 1.5 compliant
• Reconfiguration of FPGA via IPMI
• Linux boot – Linux drivers (SX660, SX570 only)
• API for all external/internal interfaces (SX660, SX570 only)