Hi together,
recently, I acquired an old FPGA development board out of the remainder of stock of a company. The board has quite powerful FPGAs on it, however, I can't find any information about it. It might be a custom development board, but I'm not sure about this.
I uploaded some photos at
If anyone of you has any information about this board or even documentation, I would be very glad, if you could contact me.
Best regards,
Andreas Koltes
Do you want information about the board, or the chips? Xilinx Virtex-II can be programmed by Xilinx Webpack I assume. Maybe you could use the chips to decode the board connections.
I'm primarly looking for information about the board. I guess, the FPGAs are part of a JTAG chain, but I'm not even sure how to access the JTAG subsystem, since there are lots of connectors and jumper banks on the board. There is also a single small push button device on the board, maybe some sort of reset?
Despite this I have no idea what the two large chips are supposed to do which can be seen at the bottom of the page.
I was told, that this board might have been used in the development of some sort of tape drives, but this information is unconfirmed.
Andreas
That doesn't look like a development board to me. It's probably a prototype of a commercial product. Prototype because the rework looks a little sloppy to me. The unidentified chips are probably ASICs. It's unlikely that you will ever find enough data to do anything useful with this board.
Also the high-end Virtex II devices didn't used to be in the Webpack, but I haven't checked in a long time.
Fujitsu may be able to help ... these are possibly SPARC CPUs?
- Brian
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