Nexys A7-100T: FPGA Trainer Board Recommended for ECE Curriculum
by: Digilent, Inc.
The Nexys A7 is the new name for our popular Nexys 4 DDR board, now available in two FPGA densities! Featuring the same AMD Artix 7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) from AMD, 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 AMD new high-performance AMD Vivado Design Suite as well as the AMD ISE toolset, which includes ChipScope and EDK. AMD offers free WebPACK versions of these tool sets, so designs can be implemented at no additional cost.
Key Features and Benefits
- Four Pmod ports
- 12-bit VGA output
- Pmod for XADC signals
- USB HID Host for mice, keyboards and memory sticks
- Two 4-digit 7-segment displays
- Temperature sensor
- PDM microphone
- Two tri-color LEDs
- 16 user LEDs
- 16 user switches
- 3-axis accelerometer
- PWM audio output
- 10/100 Ethernet PHY
- USB-UART Bridge
- Ships with rugged plastic case and USB cable
- microSD card connector
- Digilent USB-JTAG port for FPGA programming and communication
- Serial Flash
- 128 MiB DDR2
- On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
- Internal clock speeds exceeding 450 MHz
- 240 DSP slices
- Six clock management tiles, each with phase-locked loop (PLL)
- 4,860 Kbits of fast block RAM
- 15,850 logic slices, each with four 6-input LUTs and 8 flip-flops
- Artix-7 Part: XC7A100T-1CSG324C
What's Included
- Micro USB cable
- Nexys 4 DDR board