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Debug Board for Series 2 FPGA Boards

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The Debug Board is an add-on card for Series 2 FPGA Boards. It contains a lot of LED's, switches and a JTAG header and is intended to simplify debugging and prototyping. Two variants are available.

  1. The variant with stackable pin headers can be plugged between the FPGA Board and the application circuit. It's purpose is debugging. LED's can be disabled if the GPIO's are required for the user application.
  2. The variant with prototyping area can be used alone or can be connected to other prototyping cards.

Features

  • 30 LED's: connected to the I/O connector of the FPGA Board and can be disabled in groups of five
  • 4 switches: connected to the I/O connector of the FPGA Board
  • JTAG header

Additional resources

Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards

Examples

The SDK contains the example "lightshow" for each Series 2 FPGA Board which demonstrates the usage of the Debug Board.

Functional description

The following sections describe the function of the three 10-LED arrays LED1-LED3, the 10 position DIP switch S1 and the layout of the prototyping area.

LED's

The LED's are connected to GPIO pins of the external I/O connector of the FPGA Board. Their connection to ground can be opened in groups of five by using a switches S1-1 to S1-6, see the schematics for details. This allows to deactivate the LED's and to use the GPIO's for in the application circuit.

The GPIO usage is listed in the following table.

LED   GPIO pin     Activation switch  
LED1-1 A6 S1-1
LED1-2 B6
LED1-3 A7
LED1-4 B7
LED1-5 A8
LED1-6 B8 S1-2
LED1-7 A9
LED1-8 B9
LED1-9 A10
  LED1-10   B10
LED2-1 C3 S1-3
LED2-2 D3
LED2-3 C4
LED2-4 D4
LED2-5 C5
LED2-6 D5 S1-4
LED2-7 C6
LED2-8 D6
LED2-9 C7
  LED2-10   D7
LED3-1 C8 S1-5
LED3-2 D8
LED3-3 C9
LED3-4 D9
LED3-5 C10
LED3-6 D10 S1-6
LED3-7 C11
LED3-8 D11
LED3-9 C12
  LED3-10   D12

Switches

The four remaining switches of S1 are connected to GPIO pins of the FPGA Board. In ON-position they switch the FPGA pin through a 180 Ω resistor to GND, see the schematics for details. In order to read out the switch position the FPGA pin must be internally pulled high using the PULLUP constraint.

If the switches are open the GPIO pins can be used is the application circuit.

The GPIO assignment is listed in the following table.

  Switch     GPIO pin  
S1-7 A11
S1-8 B11
S1-9 A12
S1-10 B12

Prototyping area

The layout of the prototyping area is depicted in the following drawing. Pin assignment is the same as of Series 2 FPGA Boards (i.e. pin A1 of prototyping area is connected to A1 of FPGA board, ...).

Debug Boards with prototyping area can be connected to triple-pad or other prototyping cards using two 2x32 pin headers. These parts are available in the shop.

Layout of the prototyping area of Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards

Images

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Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards, variant with prototyping area

Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards: variant with prototyping area.

Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards, variant with stackable pin headers

Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards: variant with stackable pin headers.

Debug Board for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards in prototyping PCB

Debug Boards for ZTEX Series 2 FPGA Boards with prototyping area perfectly fit on a triple-pad Prototyping PCB's.


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