I just used this board for my project a few weeks ago but this is off the
top of my head so some things may be wrong. My goal was only a 30-40 cycle
test at 15MHz. You should have the protoboard datasheet and the XCV1000
datasheet handy as you will reference them a lot when you constrain your
I/O. You will also need a 3.3v and 2.5v power supply in addition to a
download cable. I used a MultiLinx in slave-serial mode. There are jumpers
on the board to specify which download mode you are using.
The Virtex has 'banks' of I/O that can each run on its own supply voltage.
This is set by a row of jumpers on the left side of the AFX board. The
board I used already had all I/O banks jumpered to the 3.3 supply. The
VccINT post powers the chip core. For an XCV1000 this is 2.5v(****check the
datasheet to be sure****). You should be aware that your design must
specify the I/O type to use(LVTTL, LVDS, etc)
In the Virtex datasheet you will find the pinouts for the 560BGA package
labeled with two alphanumeric characters(such as AR or B4). These
correspond to the prototype area holes around the chip on the AFX board.
*Note* that some rows and columns are entirely ground. Since my I/O usage
was small(16-20 pins), I simply inserted the headers that come with the
board into a row that had a lot of consecutive general I/O pins. I then just
attached my logic analyzer cable to these headers. I discovered that they
don't make good contact unless slightly pressed against but other than that
worked fine.
There may or may nor be a clock chip already on your board. The four
sockets at each corner of the chip holder are for clock chips. If one is
populated make sure you don't attempt to use another external clock on the
same pin. Pin AL or AK I think is the lower left clock chip.
You won't be able to use Webpack because the XCV1000 is larger than the
V300E device, the largest Webpack supports. You will need the real ISE to
program.

Adam

"Bhadri" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hello
> I am trying to use AFX BG560-100 board from
>
xilinx.(http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/boa...HW-AFX-BG560-1
00&category=)
> I have XCV 1000 fgpa chips to use with the board.
> I have never used this board before.I was using Dililentinc board till
> this.
> 1.Can anyone tell me how to start using this board for simple
> applications.
> 2.How to use the prototype area in the board.
> 3.can i use the same ISE webpack software 5.1i to program this chips
> with the board or is there any other software.
>
> Thanks in advance.It would be of great help.
> bhadri.