BRK7360 Breakout Board

Unlike our integration modules, breakout boards are not intended for production integration. We reserve the right to change dimensions and functionality of this board at any time and may not necessarily have the previous version available for purchase.

IPMI EEPROM

The XEM7360 may optionally read peripheral information and configuration data from a small EEPROM on the peripheral. If available, the EEPROM can be used to automatically set the voltages for the three programmable voltage regulators on the XEM7360. An EEPROM is installed on the BRK7360 but is not loaded with any configuration. Use Opal Kelly’s IPMI EEPROM Generator Tool to generate an EEPROM image, then use FrontPanel’s Flash Programming Tool to download the image to the EEPROM.

Peripherals and Connectors

The table below summarizes the various connectors on the BRK7360. The XEM7360 Pin List has connection information in the “BRK7360” column. Additionally, please refer to the schematics and layout available online for detailed connection diagrams.

CONNECTOR TYPEREFDESFPGA MGT QUAD 
U.FLJ12 – J15GTX115TxRx 0
U.FLJ8 – J11GTX115TxRx 1
SFPJ3GTX115TxRx 2
SFPJ2GTX115TxRx 3
SMAJ4 – J7GTX116TxRx 0
SATAJ18GTX116TxRx 1
SATAJ17GTX116TxRx 2
SATAJ16GTX116TxRx 3

Clock Oscillator

The onboard oscillator is provided as an alternate external reference for transceivers.

BRK PCB REVISIONFreqFPGA MGT QUAD REFCLK
20151022100MhzGTX1150
BXX156.25MhzGTX1150

SFP Transceiver Sockets

The BRK7360 has two SFP cages installed. Their MGT connections are listed above.

Note: The polarity of the RX p/n pairs connected to the SFP transceiver connectors are swapped. To use the SFP transceiver ports the RXPOLARIY register must be set to 1 in the GTX configuration.

The following instructions describe the process of flipping the RX pair polarity in IBERT:

  1. Open the Vivado Hardware Manager and program the FPGA with the IBERT bitstream.
  2. In the “Hardware” view, under the IBERT dropdown, select the MGT channel you wish to use (for the J2 SFP cage this is MGT_X0Y3, for J3 this is MGT_X0Y2).
  3. Open the GT Properties pane in the view below the “Hardware” view used in the previous step.
  4. In the GT Properties pane, expand the “PORT” selection.
  5. Change the value of the “RXPOLARITY” register to 1.
  6. At this point everything should work as it normally would with IBERT. You should be able to create links, perform scans, etc.

The control signals for the SFP ports are connected as shown in the table below.

On PCB revision BXX and newer these signals are level shifted from VADJ1 to 3.3V. Any VADJ1 voltage can be used.

On PCB revision 20151022 these signals are connected directly to the Bank 15 and Bank 16 I/O. VADJ1 must be set to 3.3V to use the SFP control signals.

See the Product Lifecycle for more details.

RefDesPinSignal FPGA Pin
J22TfaultM16
J23TdisL17
J24MOD_DEF2K18
J25MOD_DEF1L18
J26MOD_DEF0K20
J27Rate SelectM17
J28LOSD15
J32TfaultC14
J33TdisH12
J34MOD_DEF2J14
J35MOD_DEF1A12
J36MOD_DEF0A15
J37Rate SelectA13
J38LOSB15

Optical transceivers modules are not included with the BRK7360. The following Finisar part is one example SFP module:

MANUFACTURERPART NUMBERDIGI-KEY P/NAPPROXIMATE COST
FinisarFTLF8524P2BNV775-1045-ND$53.55 / each

Schematic and Design Files

The BRK7360 schematics and design files are available in the Downloads section of the Pins website.

Mechanical Drawing