Recommended FPGA and SOC Development Boards for Universities

Spartan and Artix University Boards

Boolean

Boolean Board

Spartan™ 7 XC7S50

$87.00 (BLE)

Ideal for introductory teaching and student projects.

Basys 3

Basys 3

Arti™ 7 XC7A35T

$111.75

Entry-level development board built around a AMD Artix 7 FPGA.

Nexys A7 (50T|100T)

Nexys A7 (50T|100T)

Artix 7 XC7A50T | XC7A100T

$199.20 (50T) | $224.25 (100T)

Ready-to-use digital circuit development platform for the classroom.

Zynq and RFSoC University Boards

PYNQ Z2

PYNQ-Z2

ZYNQ™ XC7Z020

$129

Low-cost embedded platform for teaching and student projects. 

Blackboard

Blackboard

ZYNQ XC7007S

$139

Designed specifically for electrical and computer engineering education.

PYNQ ZU

PYNQ-ZU

Zynq Ultrascale+ XCZU5EG

$549

Suitable for classroom teaching and advanced high-performance embedded projects.

RFSoC 4x2

RFSoC 2x2

ZYNQ UltraScale+ RFSoC XCZU48DR 

$2,149

Advanced RF teaching and research platform.

Other Development Boards

Kria SOM

Kria SOM

Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

 

Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device in a small form factor card ideal for vision processing and other projects.

Alveo U250

Alveo U250

UltraScale+ Architecture

 

Alveo™ accelerator cards designed for Data Center workloads.

Alveo U55C

Alveo U55C

UltraScale+™ Architecture

 

Built for HPC and Big Data applications, the Alveo U55C accelerator is the most powerful AMD Alveo card ever.

Versal VCK 5000

VCK 5000

Versal™ Adaptive SoC Architecture

 

Designed for adaptable intelligent (AI) engine development with Vitis™ end-to-end flow and AI Inference.