RFDIO

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The Myriad-RF Radio Frequency Digital Input Output (RFDIO) connector specification defines the electrical and mechanical properties of a high speed card interface for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based carrier boards. This specification ensures interoperability between carrier (mother) boards and add-on (daughter) RF cards. The connector is designed to meet the IEEE802.3ap backplane link to meet 10G Ethernet compliant signal channels.

Mechanical Specifications

The connector is based on the Hirose 0.5 mm pitch, 80 positions, surface-mount connector. The female part number is FX10A-80S/8-SV, to be assembled on the motherboard. The male part number is FX10A-80P/8-SV1, and is to be used by the daughterboard. A typical example of use for an RF application is an Altera FPGA motherboard using a Myriad-RF daughterboard. This example will be used throughout this document for clarity.

Figure 1: Connector 3D View

Figure 1 shows the connectors in 3-D view.

RFDIO connectors
RFDIO connectors

Figure 2: Recommended PCB Footprint

Figure 2 shows the recommended land pattern (Metal Mask) connector dimensions.

RFDIO land pattern
RFDIO land pattern

A footprint for the open source EDA software, KiCad, is available via the database provided by the Component Libraries project.

Figure 3: Myriad-RF 1 Card Mechanical Co-ordinates (Top View)

Figure 3 shows the dimensions of the Myriad-RF 1 daughterboard with the Hirose connector.

Myriad-RF 1 co-ordinates
Myriad-RF 1 co-ordinates

Electrical Specifications

Power

The carrier board must provide +5V (1.5A) DC to the RF card through the RFDIO connector. The maximum current via the Hirose connector is 0.3A per pin. To achieve the 1.5A specification, a number of defined supply and ground pins must be used. These are:

+5V Pin 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 & 10.
GND Pin 5, 6, 11, 12, 17, 18, 27, 28, 37, 38, 47, 48, 57, 58, 62, 63, 73, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 & 90

CMOS Signals

The CMOS class pins are intended to connect directly to pins that support LVTTL compatible single-ended I/O standards such as 3.3-V LVTTL/LVCMOS or 2.5-V LVTTL/LVCMOS. All CMOS class pins must support bidirectional operation. Signals between the host FPGA device and HSMC connector are intended to be D/C coupled.

Bus Widths

Daughterboards must be designed to support the full specified bus widths. This will guarantee interoperability with the greatest number of RF cards.

Termination

Tracks must have 50 Ω single-ended impedances. An optimum design will be obtained if the host FPGA supports driver strength control where 50 Ω output impedances can be selected. This output impedance will match the characteristic impedance of the tracks themselves. For long track lengths or heavy loads, drive strength may be increased as necessary until optimal signal integrity is achieved for the specific carrier board or RF card combination. When impedance control is not possible, it is recommended to place series resistors on each line of the host board to allow for tuning through resistor value changes. Default resistors should be a nominal 0 Ω since signal direction cannot be assumed on a carrier board and higher value resistors found near a receiver can significantly degrade signal integrity.

Pinout

The RFDIO connector has a total of 90 pins, including 54 digital signals pins, 6 power pins, 2 analog pins and 28 ground pins.

Pin Nr Function Description Pin Nr Function Description
1 5V Power 2 5V Power
3 5V Power 4 5V Power
5 GND Power 6 GND Power
7 RSSI output Analogue 8 5V Power
9 RSSI output Analogue 10 5V Power
81 GND Power 82 GND Power
11 GND Power 12 GND Power
13 TXNRX2 CMOS In 14 GPIO5 CMOS IO
15 TXNRX1 CMOS In 16 G_PWR_DWN CMOS IN
17 GND Power 18 GND Power
19 ENABLE_IQSEL1 CMOS In 20 GPIO6 CMOS IO
21 SPI_EN_BRD CMOS In 22 GPIO 7 CMOS IO
23 DIQ1_D0 CMOS IO 24 DIQ1_D1 CMOS IO
25 DIQ1_D2 CMOS IO 26 DIQ1_D3 CMOS IO
27 GND Power 28 GND Power
29 DIQ1_D4 CMOS IO 30 DIQ1_D5 CMOS IO
83 GND Power 84 GND Power
31 DIQ1_D6 CMOS IO 32 DIQ1_D7 CMOS IO
33 DIQ1_D8 CMOS IO 34 DIQ1_D9 CMOS IO
35 DIQ1_D10 CMOS IO 36 DIQ1_D11 CMOS IO
37 GND Power 38 GND Power
39 ENABLE_IQSEL2 CMOS In 40 BRDPRSNT Board present, connects to GND on RF Card
41 GPIO4 CMOS IO 42 VIO Digital IOs supply
43 DIQ2_D0 CMOS IO 44 DIQ2_D1 CMOS IO
45 DIQ2-D2 CMOS IO 46 DIQ2_D3 CMOS IO
47 GND Power 48 GND Power
49 DIQ2_D4 CMOS IO 50 DIQ2_D5 CMOS IO
85 GND Power 86 GND Power
51 DIQ2_D6 CMOS IO 52 DIQ2_D7 CMOS IO
53 DIQ2_D8 CMOS IO 54 DIQ2_D9 CMOS IO
55 DIQ2_D10 CMOS IO 56 DIQ2_D11 CMOS IO
57 GND Power 58 GND Power
59 FCLK2 CMOS CLK In 60 FCLK1 CMOS CLK In
61 MCLK2 CMOS CLK Out 62 GND Power
63 GND Power 64 MCLK1 CMOS CLK Out
65 GPIO0 CMOS In 66 RESET CMOS In
67 GPIO1 CMOS In 68 SPI_MOSI CMOS In
69 GPIO2 CMOS In 70 SPI_MISO CMOS Out
87 GND Power 88 GND Power
71 GPIO3 CMOS In 72 SPI_CLK CMOS In
73 GND Power 74 SPI_EN_LMS CMOS In
75 CLK_IN CMOS reference CLK input for RF Card 76 MIPI_SDA CMOS IO
77 GND Power 78 MIPI_SCL CMOS in
79 TXEN CMOS In 80 RXEN CMOS In
89 GND Power 90 GND Power

For complete signals description and timing diagrams refer to LMS6002D or LMS7002M datasheet.

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