Nexys 4 DDR Artix-7 FPGA: Trainer Board Recommended for ECE Curriculum

The Nexys 4 DDR has been replaced to the Nexys A7

The Nexys 4 DDR is a drop-in replacement for our cellular RAM-based Nexys boards. Featuring the same Artix™-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) from Xilinx^®, the Nexys 4 DDR 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 (Xilinx part number XC7A100T-1CSG324C) and collection of USB, Ethernet, and other ports, the Nexys 4 DDR 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 4 DDR to be used for a wide range of designs without needing any other components. The most notable improvement is the replacement of the 16 MiB CellularRAM with a 128 MiB DDR2 SDRAM memory. Digilent will provide a VHDL reference module that wraps the complexity of a DDR2 controller and is backwards compatible with the asynchronous SRAM interface of the CellularRAM, with certain limitations. 

The Nexys 4 DDR 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. 

Stats:

Processor/IC: Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA XC7A100T-1CSG324C

Connector(s):

• UART/JTAG USB port
• Pmod port for XADC signals 
• Audio connector
• Ethernet connector
• USB host connector
• microSD card connector
• 12-bit VGA output 
• Four Pmod ports
• Power jack

Programming: Vivado Design Suite as well as the ISE toolset

Features:

• Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA XC7A100T-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

What's Included:

• Nexys 4 DDR Artix-7 FPGA
• Digilent custom hardshell plastic case with protective foam
• Micro USB cable

Support Materials:

Datasheet (PDF)

Schematics (PDF)

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