VITA™ 57.1 FMC™ Connector Standard Products And Support
Family Overview
The FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) was developed and ratified by a consortium of FPGA vendors and end-user members of the VITA™ 57 working group. FMC™ and FMC+™ are ANSI Standards which define a compact electro-mechanical expansion interface for a daughter card to an FPGA baseboard or other device with re-configurable I/O capability.
The FMC™ Standard is essential for FPGA vendors making baseboards and comprehensive development kits to enable Designers to accelerate their application development. FMC™ products are continually introduced by Supplier companies for targeted market specific applications in industries such as Datacom, Broadcast, Aerospace/Defense, Industrial and Instrumentation. Click here for more information about I/O Design Flexibility with FMC.
Some FPGA mezzanine cards may present a challenge to unmate from their host. To aid in separation, Samtec has developed the JSOM (Micro Jack Screw Standoff). They act as a traditional standoff when collapsed. An Allen-key unscrews and expands the jack screw, dividing the PCBs in a steady, even motion until the mezzanine is safely separated from its host. The JSOM standoff family includes M2.5, M3, and #4-40 hardware available in 8.5 mm and 10 mm stack heights.
VITA™ 57.1 (FMC) Micro Jack Screw Stand Offs (JSOM)
The VITA™ 57.4 FMC™ Extender Card (REF-228680-01) has been designed for placement between FPGA Carrier Cards and FMC™ Modules. This increased space can be used for additional I/O expansion during development. The FMC™ Extender Card also provides a cost-effective option for extending the life of the FPGA Carrier Card HPC connectors used as test platforms.
Features
High Pin Count (HPC) VITA™ 57.1 FMC™ male connector (Samtec P/N: ASP-134488-01)
Xilinx® and its Alliance Program Members offer the industry's most comprehensive offering of FPGA Development Boards and Design Services to help speed developer’s time-to-revenue over a wide variety of application needs. Xilinx® has selected Samtec High Speed Connector and Cable interconnect Solutions for their latest generation Evaluation Boards featuring the Kintex UltraScale, Virtex UltraScale FPGA’s, and Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs.
Intel® development kits provide a complete, high-quality design environment for engineers. They simplify the design process and reduce time to market. Intel® has selected Samtec High Speed interconnect solutions for many of their Boards and Kits.
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Intel® HSMC
The Intel® HSMC defines electrical and mechanical properties of a high speed mezzanine card interface. This specification standardizes the way in which mezzanine cards communicate and connect to host boards. By taking advantage of the high-performance I/O features found in today’s FPGA devices, manufacturers can build a single mezzanine card that will then interface to multiple host boards.
Similarly, they can build a host board that can leverage many different, pre-built, mezzanine cards. The HSMC connectors defined by the specification are based on the 0.50 mm pitch Q Strip® QSH/QTH products high speed board-to-board connectors from Samtec. The Samtec interconnect for the mezzanine card is ASP-122952-01. See the complete HSMC Specification from Intel® for further information and recommendations for running both high-frequency and low speed interface signals within the various “banks."
High-Speed Cable Assemblies to Interface with HSMC Connectors:
High Density RF Test Point Receptacle and Cable Bulls Eye® BAR-J-22 & BE25S-01SP1-01.0-02-0152
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Microsemi provides a selection of development kits & boards for FPGA and SoC FPGA designs that include Libero SoC design software, power, and Programming & Debug Tools to begin your next design.
Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA Development Board
This kit is ideally suited for high-speed transceiver evaluation, 10Gb Ethernet, IEEE1588, JESD204B, SyncE, SATA and more. The kit connections include a high pin count (HPC) FPGA mezzanine card (FMC), numerous SMAs, PCIe, Dual Gigabit Ethernet RJ45, SFP+ and USB.
As FMC™ leverages open platforms and standards, developers are working to further the adaptation of programmable device technologies in the marketplace. Many of these developers are working closely with Samtec to support a variety of applications, including:
FMC™ daughter cards / modules
FPGA-based development boards with provisions for FMC™ expansion
FPGA-based networking cards with provisions for FMC™ expansion, along with optical interfaces
FPGA-based characterization platforms with provisions for FMC™ expansion
Embedded systems such as networking development bridge cards
Available from Samtec, some of the key interconnect solutions being used to support these technologies include:
The AD-FMCDAQ2-EBZ is an FMC™ board for the high speed DAC AD9144 & ADC AD9680. It can be connected to the Xilinx® KCU105 FPGA Baseboard to provide a comprehensive platform for rapid prototyping of high performance digital signal procession applications with wideband analog data acquisition.
Avnet's Microzed™ provides easy access to the full 108 user I/O available from the MicroZed™ SOM while connecting 75 of the MicroZed Programmable Logic (PL) I/O to a LPC VITA™ 57 FMC™ expansion slot.
ReflexCES Achilles Instant-Development Kit Arria 10 SoC SoM
ReflexCESAchilles Development Kit provides developers with the best out-of-the box experience combining the best-in class compact hardware platform and the most efficient intuitive software environment. Featuring an ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore and up to 660KLEs of advanced low-power FPGA logic elements, the Arria 10 SoC combines the flexibility and ease of programming of a CPU with the configurability and parallel processing power of an FPGA.
The Samtec 14 Gbps FireFly™ FMC™ Module provides up to 140 Gbps full-duplex bandwidth over 10 channels from an FPGA to an industry-Standard multi-mode fiber optic cable. The FireFly™ optical engines provide adjustable power levels to support cable lengths up to 100 m. The Samtec 14 Gbps FireFly™ FMC™ Module supports Data Center, High Performance Computing and FPGA-to-FPGA protocols including Ethernet, InfiniBand™, Fibre Channel and Aurora.
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