Nexys A7-50T: FPGA Trainer Board Recommended for ECE Curriculum
The Nexys A7 is the new name for our popular Nexys 4 DDR board, now available in two FPGA densities! Featuring the same Artix™-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) from Xilinx®, the Nexys A7 is a ready-to-use digital circuit development platform designed to bring additional industry applications into the classroom environment. The Artix-7 FPGA is optimized for high-performance logic, and offers more capacity, higher performance, and more resources than earlier designs. With its large, high-capacity FPGA and collection of USB, Ethernet, and other ports, the Nexys A7 can host designs ranging from introductory combinational circuits to powerful embedded processors. Several built-in peripherals, including an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, MEMs digital microphone, speaker amplifier, and plenty of I/O devices allow the Nexys A7 to be used for a wide range of designs without needing any other components.
The Nexys A7 is compatible with Xilinx's new high-performance Vivado® Design Suite as well as the ISE® toolset, which includes ChipScope™ and EDK. Xilinx offers free WebPACK™ versions of these tool sets, so designs can be implemented at no additional cost.
Features:
| Product Variant | A7-100T | A7-50T |
|---|---|---|
| Artix-7 Part | XC7A100T-1CSG324C | XC7A50T-1CSG324C |
| Logic Slices | 15,850 (4 6-input LUTs & 8 flip flops each) | 8,150 (4 6-input LUTs & 8 Flip flops each) |
| Block RAM | 4,860 Kbits | 2,700 Kbits |
| Clock Tiles | 6 (each with PLL) | 5 (each with PLL) |
| DSP Slices | 240 | 120 |
| Internal Clock | 450 MHz+ | 450 MHz+ |
| DDR2 Memory | 128MiB | 128MiB |
| Cellular RAM | 16MB | 16MB |
Specifications:
Programming: Vivado Design Suite as well as the ISE toolset
- Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA XC7A100T-1CSG324C or XC7A50T-1CSG324C
- 15,850 logic slices, each with four 6-input LUTs and 8 flip-flops
- 4,860 Kbits of fast block RAM
- Six clock management tiles, each with phase-locked loop (PLL)
- 240 DSP slices
- Internal clock speeds exceeding 450 MHz
- On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
- 128 MiB DDR2
- Serial Flash
- Digilent USB-JTAG port for FPGA programming and communication
- microSD card connector
- Ships with rugged plastic case and USB cable
- USB-UART Bridge
- 10/100 Ethernet PHY
- PWM audio output
- 3-axis accelerometer
- 16 user switches
- 16 user LEDs
- Two tri-color LEDs
- PDM microphone
- Temperature sensor
- Two 4-digit 7-segment displays
- USB HID Host for mice, keyboards and memory sticks
- Pmod for XADC signals
- 12-bit VGA output
- Four Pmod ports
Included:
- Nexys A7 FPGA: choose from 100T or 50T variant
- Digilent custom hardshell plastic case with protective foam
- Micro USB cable
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