EXOSTIV Blade
Deep Multi-FPGA Capture. Remotely. At speed.
Applications
Pre-silicon SoC validation on FPGA prototype
Complex multi-FPGA Debug
Parallel FPGA system testing with multiple sites, targets and users
Capabilities
- Millions nodes capture from multiple FPGAs
- Up to 800 MHz sampling in FPGA
- Up to 4.5 Tbps bandwidth for 5.12 TB trace storage in a single unit
- Scalable bandwidth and storage resources
- Access FPGA prototypes from multiple locations
- Compatible with any FPGA prototyping system
Exostiv Blade: a no-compromise deep trace buffer for all your debug and test needs.
Features
- AMD FPGA support
- RTL, netlist and post P&R (ECO) insertion
- Connects to FPGA transceivers at 28.125 Gbps
- Compact, 2U and 4U modular chassis available
- Simultaneous capture from multiple FPGA at target speed of operation
- Multi-user capable host
- Client application for remote control (Win 64 & Linux)
- Python for automation, post-processing & use in CI environment
- Waveform viewer for local and remote waveform databases
- Merging utility for waveforms from multiple sources and clock domains
Exostiv Blade usage
Exostiv Blade is utilized for software deployment on FPGA prototypes, pre-silicon validation, and pre-production tests of SoC prototypes and FPGA systems, capturing extensive data directly from running FPGAs.
It aids electronic engineers in scenarios such as:
- Realistic testing environments
- Performance verification
- Regression testing for IP revisions
- Debugging issues not detected during simulation
A flexible architecture
Exostiv Blade is composed of a chassis equipped with one or multiple capture boards. This architecture enables many configurations that adapt to the capture scenario.
Multiple FPGAs from multiple boards can be instrumented with capture IP instance that sample data directly from the design. Each of these instances use from 1 to 4 FPGA transceivers connected to the Exostiv Blade capture boards. The capture boards feature multiple quad tranceiver inputs in QSFP28 form factor used to transport the sampled data from the FPGAs under test to the Exostiv Blade hardware. A storage memory is attached to each of these connectors to receive and store the data.
This principle allows an extremely flexible scaling:
- Any number of FPGA chips from any number of boards can be instrumented.
- Each FPGA can contain multiple capture IPs.
- The Exostiv Blade unit is based on compact, tower, 2U to 4U chassis
- Depending on the chassis, from 1 to 10 capture boards can be used in the Exostiv Blade unit.
- Each capture board features 4x QSFP28 connectors, providing up to 4x 112.5 Gbps bandwidth using up to 16 transceivers.
- Each QSFP28 connector is attached to 16 GB up to 64 GB memory for trace storage, enabling very deep capture capabilities.
Exostiv Blade Range
Connectivity
Exostiv Blade connects to FPGA chips transceivers. The standard connectivity is QSFP28, supporting up to 4 transceivers at 28.125 Gbps each (up to 112.5 Gbps per connector).
Compatible connectivity such as QSFP+ and connecting with adapters are supported – provided the bandwidth capabilities of the chosen interface.
Devices and Platforms
Supported FPGA devices* | AMD devices families: AMD Artix™ 7, AMD Kintex™ 7, AMD Virtex™ 7, AMD Zynq™, AMD Ultrascale™, AMD UItrascale™+, AMD Versal™ | |
Exostiv Probe connectivity | QSFP28, QSFP+, SFP28, SFP+, Samtech ARF-6 | Other connectors with adapter. |
PC connectivity | Over network | |
PC requirements | min. 8GB RAM available | |
OS Support | Windows and Linux | Win 64 versions 10 and 11. |
