Arty A7

Digilent Artix-7 board with Vivado WebPACK support, Pmods, Arduino/chipKIT style expansion, DDR3 and Ethernet.

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Worth knowing

Variant-specific records should be split before publishing exact resources.

Facts

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FPGA
XC7A35TICSG324-1L
Family
AMD/Xilinx Artix-7
Memory
DDR3 variant-specific; verify in Digilent memory tab
Interfaces
Ethernet, USB UART, USB-JTAG
Toolchains
Vivado WebPACK / ML Standard
Open toolchain
Project X-Ray / openXC7 (experimental)
Level
Beginner
Status
in production
Price
price at the seller

Documents and examples

Known issues

  • 35T and 100T variants differ. Do not copy constraints or resource assumptions between variants without checking the exact FPGA part and reference files.

Where to ask: Digilent Forum

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