Connect Tech FreeForm/PCI-104 User Manual

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

Power and Thermal Considerations

20

Reference Design FPGA power analysis

20

Specifications

21

Appendix A: iMPACT Instructions for FPGA Configuration

22

Launch Impact

22

Programming the FPGA

25

Generating a PROM (MCS) File

26

Configuring the FPGA with the SPI Flash

29

Configuring the FPGA / SPI flash Association

29

Programming the Flash

31

Appendix B: Power calculations

33

Scenario 1: Heatsink attached, 250 LFM

33

Scenario 2: No Heatsink, 250 LFM

34

Scenario 3: No heatsink, 0 LFM

35

Appendix C: Hardware Changes from Revision B

36

Reference Design

37

Hardware Description

38

Connector Pinouts

38

Specifications

39

Revision 0.02

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