Nexys A7-50T FPGA Trainer Board
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 A7-100T is compatible with Xilinx's Vivado® Design Suite as well as the ISE® toolset, which includes ChipScope™ and EDK. Xilinx ISE has been discontinued in favor of Vivado® Design Suite.
The Nexys A7-50T variant is compatible only with Vivado® Design Suite.
Xilinx offers free WebPACK™ versions of these toolsets, so designs can be implemented at no additional cost.
The Nexys A7 is not supported by the Digilent Adept Utility.
Memory
- 128MiB DDR2
- Serial Flash
- microSD card slot
Power
- Powered from USB or any 4.5V-5.5V external power source
USB and Ethernet
- 10/100 Ethernet PHY
- USB-JTAG programming circuitry
- USB-UART bridge
- USB HID Host for mice, keyboards and memory sticks
Simple User Input/Output
- 16 Switches
- 16 LEDs
- Two RGB LEDs
- Two 4-digit 7-segment displays
Audio and Video
- 12-bit VGA output
- PWM audio output
- PDM microphone
Additional Sensors
- 3-axis accelerometer
- Temperature sensor
Expansion Connectors
- Pmod connector for XADC signals
- Four Pmod connectors providing 32 total FPGA I/O