VCU118 Board User Guide 5
UG1224 (v1.0) December 15, 2016
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Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
The VCU118 evaluation board for the Xilinx
®
Virtex
®
UltraScale+
™
FPGA provides a
hardware environment for developing and evaluating designs targeting the UltraScale+
XCVU9P-L2FLGA2104 device. The VCU118 evaluation board provides features common to
many evaluation systems, including:
• DDR4 and RLD3 component memory
• Dual small form-factor pluggable (QSFP+) connector
• Sixteen-lane PCI Express
®
interface
• Ethernet PHY
• General purpose I/O
•Two UART interfaces
• FireFly
™
Optical x4 28 G connector
Other features can be supported using modules compatible with the VITA-57.1 FPGA
mezzanine card (FMC) and VITA-57.4 FPGA mezzanine card plus high serial pin
(FMC+ HSPC) connectors on the VCU118 board.
Additional Resources
See Appendix D, Additional Resources and Legal Notices for references to documents, files,
and resources relevant to the VCU118 evaluation board.