Recommended FPGA and SOC Development Boards for Universities
Spartan and Artix University Boards
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Spartan™ 7 XC7S50
$69.00 (No BLE) | $79.00 (BLE)
Ideal for introductory teaching and student projects.
Basys 3
Arti™ 7 XC7A35T
$111.75
Entry-level development board built around a AMD Artix 7 FPGA.
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
ZYNQ™ XC7Z020
$129
Low-cost embedded platform for teaching and student projects.
Blackboard
ZYNQ XC7007S
$139
Designed specifically for electrical and computer engineering education.
PYNQ ZU
Zynq Ultrascale+ XCZU5EG
$549
Suitable for classroom teaching and advanced high-performance embedded projects.
RFSoC 4x2
ZYNQ UltraScale+ RFSoC XCZU48DR
$2,149
Advanced RF teaching and research platform.
Other Development Boards
Kria SOM
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device in a small form factor card ideal for vision processing and other projects.
Alveo U250
UltraScale+ Architecture
Alveo™ accelerator cards designed for Data Center workloads.
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
Versal™ Adaptive SoC Architecture
Designed for adaptable intelligent (AI) engine development with Vitis™ end-to-end flow and AI Inference.