Digilent FX12 User Manual
Digilent Hardware
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Revision: August 2, 2006
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Overview
The Digilent FX12 board (the FX12) is an
integrated circuit development platform for
Xilinx’s Virtex-4 FX12 FPGA. The FX12 is
based on Xilinx’s newest programmable
architecture and contains a PowerPC core,
dual Ethernet MACs, 32 XtremeDSP slices,
80Kbytes of block RAM, advanced clock
management, and flexible I/O’s. The FX12
also features external memories, a flexible
time base, power supplies, an Ethernet PHY,
ports, and other I/O devices.
The FX12 provides an ideal platform for
investigating a new generation of highly
integrated designs made possible by Xilinx’s
Virtex-4 family.
Features include:
• a Virtex-4 FX12 FPGA
• JTAG programming port that can
accommodate all Digilent and Xilinx
programming cables
• XCF08S Xilinx Platform Flash ROM to
store FPGA configurations
• Marvell 88E1111 “Alaska” Gigabit PHY
• 24-bit Analog Devices high-speed Video
DAC
• 64 Mbytes of ISSI DDR SDRAM
• 16 Mbytes of Micron Flash ROM
• high-current Linear Technology
switching power supplies
• Linear Technology FastDAACS
connector for driving high-speed analog
peripherals
• user-settable Integrated Circuit System
frequency synthesizer (up to 350MHz)
• on board serial port, LCD display,
buttons, switches, and LEDs
• high-speed-capable
expansion
connector
FX12 Block Diagram