Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe has introduced a digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) development kit adaptor which will interface directly to the HiTech Global V5-PCIE2 FPGA prototype board to combine the power of the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA with Fujitsu’s high-speed DAC.

The DKXC5VADAPT-1 provides a physical link between the data headers on the Fujitsu DK86064/65-2 development kits and the HiTech Global V5-PCIE2 FPGA prototype board.

The underside of the adaptor features six Samtec sockets that plug directly into the headers on the two boards.
It connects 28 matched LVDS data pairs, the DAC loop clock pairs and two divided clock signals between the two boards.
All clock signals are routed to dedicated global clock inputs on the FPGA. The complete system forms a compact solution for testing and developing an FPGA-DAC interface.

The Hi-Tech Global V5-PCIE2 development platform features tri-mode Ethernet (10/100/1000), a 4-lane PCI Express end-point connector (upstream), a DDR2 SO-DIMM socket (up to 4GB), a 512MB DDR3 component, 128MB Platform Flash XL for configuration as well as user Flash memory and on-board clocking.

More info at http://emea.fujitsu.com/microelectronics