COMBO Cards - Development and Commercial FPGA Boards

COMBO cards - development and commercial FPGA boards

The new generation of COMBO cards is now available! It has been designed by our developers with ten-years experience in programmable hardware focused on wire-speed processing of network data. It reflects the newest trends and current needs in this area. The COMBO cards have been developed to accelerate time-critical and high-speed applications especially from the network area (1-10 gigabit network processing). The new generation of cards is described below:

We introduce new powerful FPGA mothercard COMBO-LXT designed as an PCI Express x8 card of second generation of the COMBO cards. COMBO-LXT card is equipped with the XILINX Virtex5 XC5VLX110T, QDRII RAM and socket for DDR2 SODIMM memory. The interface add-on cards can by connected either through Low Speed Connectors or high speed Interface Connectors.
We introduce new network interface add-on cards (COMBOI-10G2, COMBOI-1G4) with various network technologies support (1 Gbps copper/optical, 10 Gbps optical). The add-on cards provide physical network interfaces to the mothercards.

The information about old generation of COMBO cards is available here.

General features

PCI-Express x8 interface
Optimized for packet-processing applications - equipped with QDR II SRAM, SODIM DDR2 DRAM
Throughput up to 28 Gbps

Mother cards

COMBO-LXT card is equipped with

Virtex 5 - XC5VLX110T (alternatively LX55T, LX85T, LX155T can be used, as well as some FXT chips)
Spartan XC3S1200E
2x QDR II RAM CY7C1513AV18
SODIMM connector DDR2 memory up 2GB could be used
4x Low Speed Connector (LSC) throughput up 8Gb/s
2x InterFace Connector (IFC) throughput up 28Gb/s bidirectional (even higher with VIRTEX 5 FXT)
Flexible Clock system
Unique boot system for on the fly Virtex 5 reboot (without powerdown or PC reset)