GDA Technologies' NGIO-3000 board is an Intellectual Property evaluation platform intended for validating a variety of RTL cores. The NGIO-3000 architecture is optimized for high-density and high-performance logic designs. The rich feature set, based on today's high speed networking technology, allows functional testing of various types of Intellectual Property cores by using Xilinx Virtex II Pro XC2VP70/100 FPGA. By using the high-density FPGA, the NGIO-3000 can prototype an ASIC equivalent of approximately one million gates.

Different high speed interconnects like PCI Express, PCI Express pipe interface, HyperTransport, RapidIO, and PCIX are supported in this platform. In addition, there is a one 1-Gigabit copper Interface that directly interfaces with the FPGA for testing cores like GMAC with an external PHY.

The board provides for easy configuration of the FPGA either through a JTAG connector with a multiLINX cable or with a standard Flash device through an on- board CPLD.

The management portion includes a CPU subsystem, which can be plugged in as a module. The CPU module is with MPC8245 processor from Motorola supported by 8MB Flash Memory and 128MB SDRAM. There is a serial port and an Ethernet management port available on-board to facilitate debug activity.

The board is targeted for verifying the Hyper Transport core with Xilinx Vertex II series of FPGAs and it supports Xilinx Virtex II XC2V4000, XC2V6000 and XC2V8000 FPGAs. The board can be used in many different configurations to test and validate the HyperTransport cores. On the basis of topology of HyperTransport bus standard this can be used in Tunnel configuration and Cave configuration. The Hypertransport connector interface section has two back-to-back Samtec QSE and QTE connectors to support tunnel and cave interfaces.