XEM3050

FPGA Development Board with AMD-Xilinx Spartan 3

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XEM3050-4000P XC3S4000, 64-MiB, 8-Mb Serial Flash	$699.95
BRK3010 Breakout Board	$49.95

The Opal Kelly XEM3050 is an FPGA development board based on a 4,000,000-gate Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM3050 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0for configuration downloads, enabling an almost instant reprogramming of the FPGA.

FrontPanel™ SDK

Opal Kelly’s FrontPanel SDK is an easy-to-use, robust API for communication, configuration, and interfacing to your PC, Mac or Linux hardware. FrontPanel handles all the interaction between your software and the FPGA internals, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to interface to a design.

Prototyping and OEM Integration

Opal Kelly FPGA integration modules are designed to be the ideal turnkey solution for prototypes and OEM product integration. With the complete FrontPanel SDK, there’s simply no faster, more reliable, production-ready way to jump start your FPGA design.

Block diagram

Features

64 MiB SDRAM

Two completely independent 32-MByte SDRAMs are great for high-performance applications where separate memory busses are required.

9 MiB SSRAM

A high-performance 9 MiB (512k x 18) synchronous SRAM enables volatile storage that can persist between FPGA configurations.

8 Mb SPI SERIAL FLASH

An 8-Mbit SPI Serial Flash device is included for non-volatile storage. A separate Xilinx Platform Flash is available for FPGA configuration data.

HIGH-EFFICIENCY POWER

The XEM3050 is powered by two high-efficiency switching power supplies to reduce your design burden and guarantee clean, stable power to the FPGA.

Customer Deployments

Evaluation platform for semiconductor development
Bioinformatics co-processors
IR and LIDAR 3D Cameras
Biomedical optics
Fabless semiconductor development
Advanced GPS systems
Mobile phone display technology
ASIC Design
University research

Applications

Image or video capture / processing
Data acquisition
Digital communications
ASIC / hardware-based simulation and verification
Bioinformatics (DNA search and pattern matching)
High-speed USB/FPGA co-processor
Evaluation platform for your product
Custom test equipment
Cryptography
Data Security

Technical Specifications and Support

Features & Specifications

Xilinx Spartan-3 (XC3S4000-5FGG676)
Xilinx Platform Flash PROM for configuration storage and standalone operation
64-MByte SDRAM (2x Micron MT48LC16M16)
8-Mbit Serial Flash (ST Microelectronics M25P80-VMW6G)
9-Mbit Synchronous SRAM (512k x 18)
Small form-factor -- smaller than a credit card at 75mm x 50mm x 15.9mm (2.95" x 1.97" x 0.63")
High-speed USB 2.0 interface (Cypress FX2LP - CY68013A) for downloading and control
Self-powered by external DC source
Multi-PLL, multi-output clock generator (Cypress CY22393)
Four LEDs
Two 80-pin 0.8mm Samtec board-to-board connectors (BSE-040)
Over 110 user I/O and 4 GCLK pins on expansion connectors
Independent access to VCCO bank voltages
Optional resistors for digitally-controlled impedance (DCI)
JTAG pins available on a 0.1" header as well as the expansion connectors
Full FrontPanel virtual control panel support
Complete Application Programmer's Interface (API) in C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, and Java