Nexys A7: FPGA Trainer Board Recommended for ECE Curriculum(50T)

The Nexys 4 is no longer in production. Once the current stock is depleted, it will be discontinued. We recommend migration to the Nexys A7.

The Nexys 4 board is a complete, ready-to-use digital circuit development platform based on the Artix^®-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Xilinx^®. 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 (Xilinx part number XC7A100T-1CSG324C), generous external memories, and collection of USB, Ethernet, and other ports, the Nexys 4 can host designs ranging from introductory combinational circuits to powerful embedded processors. Several built-in peripherals, including an accelerometer, temperature sensor, MEMs digital microphone, speaker amplifier, and several I/O devices allow the Nexys 4 to be used for a wide range of designs without needing any other components.

If you would like an evaluation board for academic purposes, you can apply for a donation through the Xilinx University Program.

Features

• Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA XC7A100T-1CSG324C
• 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 450 MHz 
  
• On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC) 
  
• 16Mbyte CellularRAM^®  
  
• 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
• Four Pmod ports
• 12-bit VGA output