XEM6010Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Integration Module

XEM6010 Module


The Opal Kelly XEM 3010 is an expertly-designed module that is the heart of our instrument - the central core of our CMOS Image Sensor Lab ISL-1600. It provides a development platform and a communications layer that dramatically reduced development engineering expense and accelerated time-to-market.  

- Martin Vasey, CEO, Jova Solutions

The XEM6010 is a USB 2.0 integration module based on the remarkably-capable Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM6010 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0 for configuration downloads, enabling speedy FPGA configuration and data transfer. With integrated SDRAM, power supplies, and platform flash, the XEM6010 is a worthy successor to the most popular Opal Kelly module.

On-Board SDRAM

Built with an integrated 128-MiB SDRAM, the XEM6010 has abundant on-board memory for high-performance applications, including data and image acquisition as well as signal processing.

Need More Bandwidth?

The XEM6110 is a footprint-compatible version of the XEM6010 that uses external PCI Express offering a nearly 5x bandwidth improvement over USB 2.0.

FrontPanel Software Control Panel and API

Opal Kelly's FrontPanel software interface is an easy-to-use, robust API for communication, configuration, and interfacing to your PC. FrontPanel handles all the interaction between your software and the FPGA internals, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to interface to a design.

Prototyping and OEM Integration

The XEM6010 is ideally suited to prototyping systems and integration into OEM devices where a USB interface, flexible hardware solution, or PC software interface would be useful. The XEM6010 can easily be added to a new board design to provide turnkey USB integration with the convenience of the FrontPanel programmer's interface and existing USB drivers.

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Download the free Azido System Description for the XEM6010 and accelerate your development.

 

Product Comparison

Feature XEM3010-1500P XEM6010-LX45 XEM3050-4000P XEM6010-LX150
FPGA
Minimum Xilinx Tools Required		 XC3S1500-4
ISE WebPack		 XC6SLX45-2
ISE WebPack		 XC3S4000-5
ISE Logic Edition		 XC6SLX150-2
ISE Logic Edition
Slice Architecture1 2 4-LUT, 2 DFF 4 6-LUT, 8 DFF 2 4-LUT, 2 DFF 4 6-LUT, 8 DFF
Slices 13,312 6,822 27,648 23,038
DFFs 26,624 54,576 55,296 184,304
Dist. RAM 208 Kib 401 Kib 432 Kib 1,355 Kib
Block RAM 576 Kib 2,088 Kib 1,728 Kib 4,824 Kib
MULT / DSP2 32 58 96 180
MCB3 ✓ ✓
PLLs4 ✓ (4 CMT) ✓ (6 CMT)
On-Board Memory
Banks, Width		 32 MiB SDRAM
One, x16		 128 MiB DDR2
One, x16		 64 MiB SDRAM
Two, x16		 128 MiB DDR2
One, x16
Peak Memory Bandwidth 2.128 Gb/s 10 Gb/s 4.256 Gb/s 10 Gb/s
  • 1 Spartan-6 has improved slice density with 6-input LUTs and more LUTs and DFFs per slice.
  • 2 Spartan-6 DSP blocks include MULT and integrated 48-bit accumulator.
  • 3 Spartan-6 MCBs (memory controller blocks) reduce the fabric resources consumed for memory support.
  • 4 Spartan-6 includes PLLs for greater clock management flexibility.

Applications

  • Image or video capture / processing
  • Data acquisition
  • Digital communications
  • ASIC / hardware-based simulation and verification
  • Bioinformatics (DNA search and pattern matching)
  • High-speed USB / FPGA co-processor
  • Evaluation platform for your product
  • Custom test equipment
  • Cryptography
  • Data Security

Block Diagram

XEM6010 Block Diagram

128 MiB DDR2

Integrated 128-MiByte DDR2 provides plenty of on-board memory for high-performance applications, including image capture and data acquisition.

Bootable Serial Flash

The XEM6010 integrates 32 Mib of on-board serial flash for standalone FPGA booting and miscellaneous nonvolatile memory.

 

Multi-output PLL

The on-board PLL provides flexible clocking to the FPGA and expansion connectors.

Switching Power Supplies

High-efficiency switching power supplies provide stable, dependable power to the FPGA. In most applications, there is enough extra juice to also supply your board.

Features & Specifications

  • Xilinx Spartan-6 (XC6SLX45-2FGG or XC6SLX150-2FGG)
  • 32-Mib serial flash (Numonyx M32P25)
  • 128-MiByte DDR2 (Micron MT47H64M16HR)
  • Small form-factor -- smaller than a credit card at 75mm x 50mm x 15.9mm (2.95" x 1.97" x 0.63")
  • High-speed USB 2.0 interface (Cypress FX2LP - CY68013A) for downloading and control
  • Self-powered by external DC source
  • Multi-PLL, multi-output clock generator (Cypress CY22393)
  • Eight LEDs
  • Two 80-pin 0.8mm Samtec board-to-board connectors (BSE-040)
  • Over 110 user I/O and 4 GCLK pins on expansion connectors
  • Independent access to VCCO bank voltages
  • JTAG pins available on the expansion connectors
  • Full FrontPanel virtual control panel support
  • Complete Application Programmer's Interface (API) in C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, and Java

Important Note: Firmware source code is not included.  Of course, full documentation on designing the XEM6010 into your application is included.  Please see the Library items on this page.

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XEM6010-LX45

XC6SLX45-2C, 128-MiB DDR2
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XEM6010-LX45I

XC6SLX45-2I, 128-MiB DDR2 (industrial temp)
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XEM6010-LX150

XC6SLX150-2C, 128-MiB DDR2
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XEM6010-LX150I

XC6SLX150-2I, 128-MiB DDR2 (industrial temp)
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EVB1005

5 Mp CMOS image sensor board for XEM6310
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EVB100X-DEV

Developer's Release for EVB100x
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BRK6110

Breakout Board
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Library