Easy-to-use PCI Express Development board – Enables designers to investigate and experiment with the features of the ECP5 FPGA, with specific focus on enabling PCIe technology evaluation.
Rapid prototyping of user functions – The features of the ECP5 PCI Express Development Board can assist engineers with rapid prototyping and testing of their ECP5 designs.
Proof-of-concept demos – Several PCIe demos ranging from control plane through data plane applications, drivers, GUI, and RTL source for top-level project directories.
Features
- PCI Express form-factor – Allows demonstration of PCI Express x4 interconnection
- USB-B connection for UART and device programming
- One RJ45 interfaces to 10/100/1000 Ethernet to RGMII
- On-board Boot Flash – 128M Serial SPI Flash
- 8GB LPDDR3 memory components (256Mbx32)
- Expansion connections and headers – Allows flexibility for user prototype expansion
- Switches, LEDs and displays for demo purposes
- Lattice Diamond® Programmer configuration support
- On-board reference clock sources
- Easy power measurements – All ECP5 rails have probable power resistors
