Prototyping boards speed FPGA development

A new series of Virtex-II FPGA prototyping boards provides an ideal platform for FPGA developers to evaluate, implement, test and extend custom designs using high-density Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs.

Traquair Data Systems has released a series of Virtex-II FPGA prototyping boards, providing an ideal platform for FPGA developers to evaluate, implement, test, and extend custom designs using high-density Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs ranging from 1 to 8 million gates.

The prototyping boards are developed and produced by ErSt Electronic in Ebmatingen, Switzerland, and allow FPGA developers to evaluate Virtex-II FPGA families in the FF1152 package.

An excellent diagnostic and benchmarking tool for FPGA developers, the boards facilitate the testing of algorithms under real-time conditions and allow for experimentation with different low voltage I/O standards and differential signals.

For extremely complex FPGA designs, developers can quickly and easily expand their prototyping system by stacking several boards together and using partitioning software.

To facilitate development, the prototyping boards are packaged with everything needed to quickly start and evaluate a Virtex-II based project including an SPROM module configured with a demonstration example, documentation, power cables and connector adapters.

Each board features a Virtex-II device with 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 million gate density coupled with two separate crystal oscillators with sockets, six banks of general I/Os and many programmable user interfaces including a liquid crystal display, a text-to-speech processor with audio power amplifier and numerous push buttons, DIP switches and status LEDs.

The 4, 6 and 8-million-gate boards also add a total of 1Mbyte fast static RAM organised as either one or two boards.

Virtex-II prototyping boards are available now starting at $3225 in for a 1-million-gate version in single quantities.

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