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Table of Contents

Limited Lifetime Warranty ......................................................................................................... 2

Copyright Notice ........................................................................................................................ 2

Trademark Acknowledgment ..................................................................................................... 2

Customer Support Overview ...................................................................................................... 3

Contact Information ........................................................................................................... 3

Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................... 4

List of Tables .............................................................................................................................. 5

List of Figures ............................................................................................................................ 5

Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 6

Product Features ................................................................................................................ 6

About this manual .............................................................................................................. 6

System Overview ....................................................................................................................... 7

Reference Design ....................................................................................................................... 9

Hardware Description ................................................................................................................10

Jumpers and Switches .......................................................................................................10

Slot Selection (RSW1) .............................................................................................10

FPGA Configuration Settings (J1) ...........................................................................10

Connector Pinouts .............................................................................................................11

PCI-104 Header (P1) ................................................................................................11

JTAG Programming Header (P2) .............................................................................11

SPI Flash Programming Header (P3) .......................................................................11

High-speed Serial (P4) .............................................................................................12

RS-485 Headers (P5, P6)..........................................................................................13

GPIO Header (P7) ....................................................................................................14

External Power Connector (P8) ................................................................................15

Connector’s Mating Components and Cables ...................................................................16

Hardware Installation ................................................................................................................17

Heat Sink Installation ........................................................................................................17

Stand-alone Operation ......................................................................................................17

Software Installation ..................................................................................................................18

FPGA Development Environment ....................................................................................18

PLX Software Development Kit (SDK) ...........................................................................18

Reference Design & Application Examples .....................................................................18

FPGA Configuration .................................................................................................................19

FPGA Ethernet MAC Addresses ...............................................................................................19

Power and Thermal Considerations ...........................................................................................20

Reference Design FPGA power analysis ..........................................................................20

Specifications ............................................................................................................................21

Appendix A: ISE iMPACT Procedures .....................................................................................22

Preparing the iMPACT Project .........................................................................................22

Programming the FPGA ...................................................................................................25

Programming the Flash .....................................................................................................27

Generating a PROM (MCS) File ......................................................................................30

Appendix B: Power calculations ...............................................................................................32

Scenario 1: Heatsink attached, 250 LFM .................................................................32

Scenario 2: No Heatsink, 250 LFM ..........................................................................33

Scenario 3: No heatsink, 0 LFM...............................................................................34

Appendix C: Hardware Changes from Revision B ....................................................................35

Reference Design ..............................................................................................................36

Hardware Description .......................................................................................................37

Connector Pinouts ....................................................................................................37

Specifications ....................................................................................................................38

Appendix D: Identifying Configuration Flash Size ...................................................................39