Opal Kelly launched the XEM8310-AU25P which is an FPGA development board that features the Xilinx Artix Ultrascale+ FPGA. This board is supported by the popular FrontPanel SDK to improve rapid prototyping and product development.

The XEM8310-AU25P platform integrates the Xilinx Artix Ultrascale+ XCAU25P-2FFVB676E FPGA which features 2GiB DDR4 memory, 1200 DSP slices, 141,000 CLB LUTs, 282,000 CLB Flip Flops and around 308,437 System Logic Cells.

Opal Kelly XEM8310-AU25P
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Other peripherals include a USB Type C Super Speed connector, 32MiB QSPI, 16 MiB System Flash and two low-jitter fixed-frequency clock oscillators. There are also 12 GTY Transceivers (up to 16.375 Gb/s) which support serial interfaces as DisplayPort, 10GbE, SATA, HD-SDI, PCI Express, XAUI and JESD-204B.

The board also offers up to 149 FPGA fabric I/Os and up to four LEDs for general use. The USB host interface implements a Cypress FX3 microcontroller, although its firmware and HDL modules are proprietary.

 XEM8310-AU25P Block Diagram
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According to the company, the XEM8320 development platform was designed for applications that require blazing data transfer and high-performance computing such as machine vision, machine learning, digital communications/networking and even cryptography. 

Suggested Applications
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To accelerate software development, Opal Kelly offers the FrontPanel SDK which is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux environments. Refer to the FrontPanel SDK website for documentation, samples and more info regarding their libraries and APIs. 

FrontPanel SDK 
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Specifications for the XEM8310-AU25P development board include:

• FPGA:
  • Xilinx Artix UltraScale+ (XCAU25P-2FFVB676E)
    • 308,437 System Logic Cells
    • 282,000 CLB Flip-Flops
    • 141,000 CLB LUTs
    • 1,200 DSP Slices
• FPGA Memory:
  • 2 GiByte DDR4 (32-bit wide data interface)
  • 32 MiB QSPI FPGA Flash (supports FPGA gateware boot)
  • 16 MiB SPI Flash
• FPGA MGT:
  • 12 GTY transceivers (up to 16.375 Gb/s)
• USB:
  • SuperSpeed USB 3.0
• Clocks:
  • 1x 100 MHz fixed oscillator
  • 1x 125 MHz fixed oscillator
• Debugger:
  • JTAG (via expansion connectors)
• I/Os:
  • 4x LEDs
  • 77 HP I/O (Banks 64, 67)
  • 72 HD I/O (Banks 84, 86, 87)
• Power:
  • 7.5-15 VDC
• Operating temperature:
  •  0 to 70°C
• Dimensions:
  • 100mm x 70mm

Further information

The XEM8310-AU25P ships for $1149.94. The development boards can be ordered from the Opal Kelly website.