The Digilent basys 3™ FPGA development board is a comprehensive, ready-to-use digital circuit development platform based on the latest Artix-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Xilinx. With high-capacity FPGA, low overall cost and collection of USB, VGA and other ports, the board can host designs ranging from introductory combinational circuits to complex sequential circuits like embedded processors and controllers. It includes enough switches, LEDs and other I/O devices to allow a large number of designs to be completed without the need for any additional hardware and enough uncommitted FPGA I/O pins to allow designs to be expanded using diligent Pmods or other custom boards and circuits. An FPGA is a semiconductor device consisting of a matrix of Configurable Logic Blocks (CLBs) connected through programmable interconnects. The user determines these interconnections by programming SRAM. A CLB can be simple (AND, OR gates, etc) or complex (a block of RAM). The FPGA allows changes to be made to design even after the device is soldered into a PC
Features and Benefits
33280 logic cells in 5200 slices (each slice contains 4 x 6-input LUTs and 8 x flip-flops) 1800Kbit fast block RAM 5 x clock management tiles, each with a phase-locked loop (PLL) 90 x DSP slices Internal clock speeds exceeding 450MHz On-chip analogue to digital converter (XADC) Onboard 32Mbit Quad-SPI serial flash memory Programmable over JTAG, Quad-SPI or USB USB-UART Bridge via microUSB socket USB-A HID host socket for mice, keyboards and memory sticks 12-bit VGA display output on DE15 connector FPGA programming 16 x user LEDs 4-digit 7-segment LED display 5 x user pushbuttons 16 x user slide switches 3 x standard Pmod 2 x 6-pin connectors Dual purpose Powered from either USB socket or external 5V header
