- FPGA based ready-to-use digital circuit development platform
- 15,850 logic slices and 240 DSP slices
- 4,860 Kbits of fast block RAM
- On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
The Nexys4 Artix-7 FPGA Board is a ready-to-use digital circuit development platform designed to bring additional industry applications into the classroom environment. With its large, high-capacity FPGA 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 Artix-7 FPGA is optimized for high performance logic, and offers more capacity, higher performance, and more resources than earlier designs. Artix-7 100T features include:
- 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 450MHz
- On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
The Nexys 4 DDR also offers an improved collection of ports and peripherals, including: |
- 16 user switches
- USB-UART Bridge
- 12-bit VGA output
- 3-axis accelerometer
- 128MiB DDR2
- Pmod for XADC signals
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- 16 user LEDs
- Two tri-color LEDs
- PWM audio output
- Temperature sensor
- Serial Flash
- Digilent USB-JTAG port for FPGA programming and communication
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- Two 4-digit 7-segment displays
- Micro SD card connector
- PDM microphone
- 10/100 Ethernet PHY
- Four Pmod ports
- USB HID Host for mice, keyboards and memory sticks
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