Alinx HEA13 FPGA Development Board Supports Jetson Thor

Alinx HEA13 FPGA Development Boards

Alinx has introduced the HEA13, a high-performance platform in the FPGA development boards market that combines the AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU13P FPGA with support for both NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin and Jetson Thor modules. The platform connects the FPGA and Jetson module through a PCIe Gen3 x8 interface, making it suitable for robotics, industrial vision, edge AI, and compute acceleration applications. The FPGA subsystem is based on the AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU13P-2FHGB2104I, featuring 3.78 million logic cells, 12,288 DSP slices, and 454.5Mb of on-chip memory. The ACVU13 core board also integrates 20GB of DDR4 memory in two 10GB banks with 80-bit interfaces, along with 256MB of QSPI flash storage.

For high-speed connectivity and expansion, the HEA13 FPGA development board offers four QSFP28 ports supporting up to 100Gbps, two FMC+ connectors, Gigabit Ethernet, UART, and a microSD card slot. The supported NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module delivers up to 275 TOPS of AI performance, while the Jetson Thor module provides up to 2070 TOPS along with up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory. Additional Jetson-side interfaces include DisplayPort output, USB 3.2 Type-C ports, M.2 slots for NVMe SSD and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules, Ethernet connectivity, microSD storage, and a 40-pin expansion header.

We have previously covered several FPGA development boards, including the Alchitry, Terasic DE25-Nano, and Shrike platforms. Feel free to check out these products if you are interested in FPGA-based development.

HEA13 FPGA development board

Alinx HEA13 Specifications:

• AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU13P FPGA System
  • FPGA: AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU13P
    • 16nm FinFET process technology
    • Integrated 100GbE Ethernet MAC and 150G Interlaken cores
    • 76 GTY high-speed transceivers supporting up to 28.21 Gbps
    • More than 2× higher system-level performance-per-watt than Kintex-7 FPGAs
• Memory: 2 × 10GB DDR4 SDRAM (80-bit)
• Storage: 256MB QSPI Flash
• Jetson Expansion: 1 × NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin / Jetson Thor module interface
• Networking:
  • 4 × 100GbE QSFP28 ports
  • 1 × Gigabit Ethernet (PL side)
• Expansion Interfaces:
  • 2 × FMC+ connectors
    • FMC+ 1: 122 FPGA I/Os and 16 GTY lanes
    • FMC+ 2: 168 FPGA I/Os and 16 GTY lanes
• Additional Interfaces:
  • 1 × UART
  • 1 × MicroSD card slot
  • 2 × SMA input connectors
• User I/O:
  • 3 × User LEDs
  • 3 × User buttons (KEYs)
• Power Supply: Single 12V DC input
• Board Dimensions: 271 × 200 mm

HEA13 system architecture

NVIDIA Jetson Orin / Thor System Specifications:

• Supported AI Modules:
  • NVIDIA Jetson Thor Series:
    • 128GB LPDDR5X memory with 256-bit interface
    • Up to 2,070 TFLOPS AI performance
  • NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Series:
    • 64GB version: Up to 275 TOPS
    • 32GB version: Up to 200 TOPS
• Storage Expansion: 1 × M.2 slot for NVMe SSD
• Jetson modules are optional and sold separately.
  • Display: 1 × DisplayPort interface (Jetson AGX Orin)
  • Networking:
    • 1 × 10GbE port for Jetson AGX Orin
    • 1 × 5GbE port for Jetson Thor
    • Wireless Expansion: 1 × M.2 slot for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules
• USB: 2 × USB 3.2 Type-C ports
• System Management: 1 × 24AA04 EEPROM (4 Kbit) for board identification and serial number storage
• Additional Interfaces:
  • 1 × MicroSD 2.0 card slot
  • 1 × 40-pin expansion header

HEA13 peripherals

The ALINX HEA13 development board can help reduce time-to-market for any AMD/Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale+ based application.  

The Alinx HEA13 supports NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin or Jetson Thor with the Jetson Thor 128GB version priced at $22,561. 

Images used courtesy of Alinx.