NAT-AMC-ARRIA10-FMC

The NAT-AMC-ARRIA10-FMC is an AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) featuring an Intel® Arria® 10 (ARRIA10) GX or SX FPGA and an FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) slot supporting HPC (High Pin Count) and LPC (Low Pin Count) connector as defined by VITA 57.1.

The heart of the NAT-AMC-ARRIA10-FMC is the Intel® Arria® 10 (ARRIA10) FPGA in NF40 BGA-1517 package with high count I/O to connect all pins of the HPC FMC connector to the FPGA core.

The Intel® Arria® 10 (ARRIA10) family of FPGAs provides a comprehensive set of advanced power saving features and power-optimized MultiTrack routing and core architecture results in up to 40% lower power compared to the previous generation of mid-range FPGAs and up to 60% lower power compared to the previous generation of high-end FPGAs. They combine up to 1.5M logic elements, high speed SERDES interconnects and dual-core ARM Cortex A9 cores. They deliver 60% higher performance than the previous generation of mid-range FPGAs and 15% higher performance than the fastest previous-generation high-end FPGAs.

The NAT-AMC-ARRIA10-FMC is available in various FPGA configurations starting from SX570 over SX660 (with embedded dual ARM core CPU) up to GX1150. It provides three FPGA/CPU-dedicated high-density 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.

The single width AMC NAT-AMC-ARRIA10-FMC is available with mid-size of full-size front panels to allow FMCs to use the capabilities of the onboard FPGA to the full extent.

The capability of carrying both HPC and LPC FMC modules allows the NAT-AMC-ARRIA10-FMC 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.

• 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)