GDA Technologies’ GPEX-3000 board is an Intellectual Property evaluation platform intended for validating a variety of RTL cores. The GPEX-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 XC2VP50 FPGA. By using the high-density FPGA, the GPEX-3000 can prototype an ASIC equivalent of approximately 600K gates.

Different high speed interconnects like PCI Express, PCIX are supported in this platform.

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. CPU module 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 can operate as a standalone hardware module or as a PCI/PCI-X or PCIe add on card, thereby enhancing the application of the board.