Overview

Enclustra’s Mercury PE1, Mars PM3 and Mercury Starter base boards are ideal platforms to evaluate the Cypress EZ-USB® FX3™ controller working in USB 3.0 device mode. Our USB 3.0 Quick-Start Kits includes a Mars or Mercury family FPGA module and base board, as well as all necessary peripherals. Communication between the FPGA and FX3 is implemented using a 32-bit slave FIFO interface, running at 100 MHz. Each USB 3.0 Quick-Start Kit comes with the necessary host PC software, FX3 and FPGA firmware to implement FPGA to host (upstream) data rates up to 360 MBytes/sec and host to FPGA (downstream) data rates up to 250 MBytes/sec.

Highlights

• Allows up to 360 MBytes/sec upstream and up to 250 MBytes/sec downstream data transfer
• Separate JTAG interfaces for debugging FX3 and FPGA using JTAG probes
• FX3 can boot from on-board SPI flash or from USB

Features

• 32-bit slave FIFO interface between Cypress FX3 USB 3.0 controller and FPGA module
• 16 Mbit SPI flash attached to FX3
• Supports Windows 7 32/64-bit and Windows XP 32-bit

Benefits

• Reference design allows you to build your own USB 3.0 application within short time
• FPGA VHDL, FX3 C and Host C++ source code included

Deliverables

• Mars/Mercury family FPGA module
• Mars PM3/Mercury PE1/Mercury Starter base board
• USB 3.0 cable
• DC power supply
• JTAG breakout board for easy FX3 and FPGA JTAG access
• Quick-Start guide
• Source code for FPGA firmware (VHDL), FX3 firmware (C) and host PC application (C++)

Reference Design Overview

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Product Selection Matrix

Product Code	FPGA Module	Base Board	Reference Design Source Code	Status
QSK-USB3-PM3-MX1-45-3C-D7	MA-MX1-45-3C-D7	MA-PM3-C	✔
QSK-USB3-PM3-MX2-45-3C-D7	MA-MX2-45-3C-D7	MA-PM3-C	✔
QSK-USB3-PM3-AX3-100-1C-D8	MA-AX3-100-1C-D8	MA-PM3-C	✔
QSK-USB3-PM3-AX3-100-2IW-D8	MA-AX3-100-2I-D8	MA-PM3-W	✔
QSK-USB3-PM3-ZX3-20-1C-D9	MA-ZX3-20-1C-D9	MA-PM3-C	✔
QSK-USB3-PM3-ZX3-20-2IW-D10	MA-ZX3-20-2I-D10	MA-PM3-C	✔
QSK-USB3-STA-KX1-160-1C-D10	ME-KX1-160-1C-D10	ME-STA-C	✔
QSK-USB3-STA-KX1-325-2IC-D11-P	ME-KX1-325-2I-D11-P	ME-STA-C	✔
QSK-USB3-PE1-KX1-160-1C-D10	ME-KX1-160-1C-D10	ME-PE1-C	✔
QSK-USB3-PE1-KX1-325-2IW-D11-P	ME-KX1-325-2I-D11-P	ME-PE1-W	✔

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