Nexys A7: FPGA Trainer Board Recommended for ECE Curriculum

Previously known as the Nexys 4 DDR

The Nexys A7 is the new name for our popular Nexys 4 DDR board, now available in two FPGA densities! Featuring the same Artix™-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) from Xilinx^®, 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 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.

Features:

Specifications:

Programming: Vivado Design Suite as well as the ISE toolset

• Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA XC7A100T-1CSG324C or XC7A50T-1CSG324C
  
• 15,850 logic slices, each with four 6-input LUTs and 8 flip-flops (8,150 logic slices for the A7-50T)
  
• 4,860 Kbits of fast block RAM  (2,700 Kbits for the A7-50T)
  
• Six clock management tiles, each with phase-locked loop (PLL) (5 clock management tiles for the A7-50T)
  
• 240 DSP slices (120 DSP slices for A7-50T)
  
• 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