EXOSTIV – Technical Specifications

*** The information on this page is about Exostiv, using EP12000 or EP6000 Probes., with Exostiv Dashboard software environment v1.***
Please go to Exostiv main page for the technical specifications of Exostiv using EP16000 probe with software environment v2.

Devices & Platforms

Supported FPGA devices*


AMD devices families:  AMD Artix™ 7, AMD Kintex™ 7, AMD Virtex™ 7, AMD Zynq™, AMD Ultrascale™, AMD UItrascale™+

Intel devices families: Cyclone-10, Arria-10, Stratix-10



Microchip devices families: Smartfusion 2 and Igloo 2

Exostiv Probe connectivity

SFP/SFP+ and custom pinout (HDMI)

FMC, FMC+ and others with adapter

PC connectivity

USB 2.0 and 3.0

PC requirements

min. 8GB RAM available

OS Support

Windows, Linux and MacOS

Win 64 versions 7, 8.x, 10 and 11.

CentOS & RHEL 7.2 & 7.6


Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 & 20.04

Debian 8, 9 & 10
Rocky 8

MacOS

* Other FPGA devices: contact us for roadmap.

AMD devices supported transceiver types

AMD Virtex™ 7

GTX / GTH

AMD Kintex™ 7

GTX

AMD Artix™ 7

GTP

AMD Zynq™ 7000

GTX

AMD Virtex™ Ultrascale™

GTH / GTY

AMD Kintex™ Ultrascale™

GTH

AMD Virtex™ Ultrascale™+

GTH / GTY

AMD Kintex™ Ultrascale™+

GTH / GTY

AMD Zynq™ Ultrascale™+

GTH / GTY

Features

Probe memory


8 GB

Connectivity

SFP / SFP+, custom pinout (HDMI connector)

Number of transceivers

1 to 4


Max. data rate per channel

12.5 Gbps

Max. sampling rate in FPGA

390 MHz

Max. nr of observable nodes

32,768

Max. nr of capture units / clock domains

16

Max. nr of FPGA nodes per capture unit

2,048

Min. FPGA memory per capture unit

1 block RAM

Data Groups multiplexing

Up to 16 groups per capture unit

Triggering capabilities

Level or transition
AND, OR, range conditions

Data qualification

Concurrent triggering of 1 to 16 capture units.
Cross clock domain triggering
Trigger positioning
Trigger counter

Capture modes

Stream to probe or burst to probe

Synthesis / Implementation


Exostiv Dashboard-A:
(Applies to AMD devices)
Requires AMD Vivado™ 2015.4 to 2023.2


Exostiv Dashboard-I:
(Applies to Intel devices)
Requires Intel Quartus software version 17.1 to 21.1 Standard or 22.2 Pro


Exostiv Dashboard-M:
(Applies to Microchip devices)
Requires Microchip Libero software version 2022.2 to 2023.2


Exostiv Dashboard-A:
(Applies to AMD devices)
After synthesis (netlist level) or
Manual RTL insertion

Exostiv Dashboard-I:
(Applies to Intel devices)
Manual RTL insertion

Exostiv Dashboard-M:
(Applies to Microchip devices)
Manual RTL insertion


Data visualization

With MYRIAD waveform viewer

Data export

.vcd, .csv (text) and binary formats