ChipScope™ Pro inserts logic analyzer, bus analyzer, and Virtual I/O low-profile software cores directly into your design, allowing you to view any internal signal or node, including embedded hard or soft processors. Signals are captured at or near operating system speed and brought out through the programming interface, freeing up pins for your design. Captured signals can then be analyzed through the included ChipScope Pro Logic Analyzer.

ChipScope Pro also interfaces with your Agilent bench test equipment through the ATC2 software core. This core synchronizes ChipScope Pro to Agilent's FPGA Dynamic Probe scope option. This unique partnership between Xilinx and Agilent gives you deeper trace memory, faster clock speeds, more trigger options, all using fewer pins on the FPGA.

ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit

The Xilinx ChipScope™ Pro Serial I/O Toolkit is an optional add-on to the popular ChipScope Pro verification toolset for use with Virtex™-4 FX, Virtex-5 LXT, and Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs.

Key Benefits

• Shorter debug and setup for serial IO designs
• Free for a limited time ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit is available free to all in-maintenance and new ChipScope Pro users
• Costing less than 1% of comparable BERT hardware test equipment
• Supports all the major serial IO standards including PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, Fibre Channel, and more
• Part of the complete high-speed serial design solution from Xilinx

Key Features

• Fast and easy interactive setup and debug of Virtex-4 FX, Virtex-5 LXT, and Virtex-5 SXT serial IO channels
• Measure bit-error ratios on multiple channels, adjust high-speed serial transceiver parameters in real-time while your serial I/O channels are interacting with the rest of the system
• Built-in pattern generator and pattern receiver with all the standard Serial IO data packets
• Requires only JTAG programming port access to your board, no extra pins need for dedicated high-speed serial debug or setup
• Runs on any Virtex-4 FX, Virtex-5 LXT, and Virtex-5 SXT based design or development board

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP Professional
• Sun Solaris 2.8, 2.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 WS (32 or 64 bit)

Software Requirements

• ISE™ Foundation™ or ISE WebPACK™ or ISE Foundation Evaluation
• ChipScope Pro