The XEM6310 is a USB 3.0 FPGA development board based on the remarkably-capable Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM6310 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 3.0 for configuration downloads, enabling speedy FPGA configuration and data transfer. With integrated SDRAM, power supplies, and platform flash, the XEM6310 is a worthy addition to Opal Kelly’s most popular form-factor.
The XEM6310 and other Spartan-6 products are now end-of-life. Please consider the XEM7310 (Artix-7 FPGA) as a possible migration replacements.
Integrated 128-MiByte DDR2 provides plenty of on-board memory for high-performance applications, including image capture and data acquisition.
HIGH-EFFICIENCY 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.
SUPERSPEED USB 3.0
Measured performance at over 340 MiB/s for real-world data transfers to/from the PC.
BOOTABLE SERIAL FLASH (2x 16 MiB)
The XEM6310 integrates 16 MiB of on-board serial Flash for standalone FPGA booting and miscellaneous nonvolatile memory and a separate 16 MiB serial Flash for exclusive FPGA use.
Customer Deployments
CMOS image sensor test equipment
Radar system - test interface, system integration, field testing
Evaluation platform for semiconductors
Bioinformatics co-processors
Camera interface for IR and LIDAR 3D cameras
Equipment for analyzing satellite imagery
Design of equipment for mineral exploration
University research
University classroom design projects
Applications
Image or video capture / processing
Data acquisition
ASIC / hardware-based simulation and verification
Bioinformatics (DNA search and pattern matching)
Digital communications
High-speed USB / FPGA co-processor
Evaluation platform for your product
Custom test equipment
Cryptography
Data Security
Product Comparison
Feature
XEM6310-LX45
XEM6010-LX45
XEM6310-LX150
XEM6010-LX150
Interface
Measured Performance
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed
340+ MiB/s
USB 2.0 HighSpeed
Up to 38 MB/s
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed
340+ MiB/s
USB 2.0 HighSpeed
Up to 38 MB/s
FPGA
Minimum Xilinx Tools Required
XC6SLX45-2
ISE WebPack
XC6SLX150-2
ISE Logic Edition
Slice Architecture
4 6-LUT, 8 DFF
Slices
6,822 (54,576 DFFs)
23,038 (184,304 DFFs)
FPGA RAM
2,088 Kib BlockRAM
401 Kib Distributed
4,824 Kib BlockRAM
1,355 Kib Distributed
MULT / DSP1
58
180
MCB2
✓
✓
PLLs
✓ (4 CMT)
✓ (6 CMT)
On-Board DDR2
Banks, Width, Peak Bandwidth
128 MiB
One, x16, 10 Gb/s
System Flash
FPGA Bootable?
128 Mib
Yes
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128 Mib
Yes
–
FPGA Flash
FPGA Bootable?
128 Mib
No
32 Mib
Yes
128 Mib
No
32 Mib
Yes
1 Spartan-6 DSP blocks include MULT and integrated 48-bit accumulator.
2 Spartan-6 MCBs (memory controller blocks) reduce the fabric resources consumed for memory support.
Technical Specifications and Support
Features & Specifications
Xilinx Spartan-6 (XC6SLX45-2FGG or XC6SLX150-2FGG)
2x 16-MiB serial flash (Numonyx N25Q128A)
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")
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface (Cypress FX3) for configuration and data transfer
Measured performance over 340 MiB/s
Self-powered by external DC source
Low-jitter 100 MHz clock oscillator
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
Status: END OF LIFE
Status: Production
Status: Limited Production
