XEM6010

FPGA Development Board with AMD-Xilinx Spartan 6

	1 PC
XEM6010-LX45 XC6SLX45-2C, 128-MiB	$1,049.95
XEM6010-LX150 XC6SLX150-2C, 128-MiB	$1,349.95
XEM6010-LX45I XC6SLX45-2I, 128-MiB industrial temp	$1,149.95
XEM6010-LX150I XC6SLX150-2I, 128-MiB, industrial temp	$1,449.95
BRK6110 Breakout Board	$49.95
EVB1005 5 Mp CMOS image sensor board	$249.95

The XEM6010 is a USB 2.0 FPGA development board based on the remarkably-capable Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM6010 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0 for configuration downloads, enabling speedy FPGA configuration and data transfer. With integrated SDRAM, power supplies, and platform flash, the XEM6010 is a worthy successor to the most popular Opal Kelly module.

The XEM6010 and other Spartan-6 products are now end-of-life. Please consider the XEM7310 or XEM7010 (Artix-7 FPGA) as possible migration replacements.

Please read this post regarding the Spartan-6 End-of-Life.

Contact [email protected] if you have any questions!

Block diagram

Features

128 MiB DDR2

Integrated 128-MiByte DDR2 provides plenty of on-board memory for high-performance applications, including image capture and data acquisition.

SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES

High-efficiency switching power supplies provide stable, dependable power to the FPGA. In most applications, there is enough extra juice to also supply your board.

BOOTABLE SERIAL FLASH

The XEM6010 integrates 32 Mib of on-board serial flash for standalone FPGA booting and miscellaneous nonvolatile memory.

MULTI-OUTPUT PLL

The on-board PLL provides flexible clocking to the FPGA and expansion connectors.

Customer Deployments

Bioinformatics co-processors
Radar system - test interface, system integration, field testing
Camera interface for IR and LIDAR 3D cameras
Equipment for analyzing satellite imagery
University research
Design of equipment for mineral exploration

Applications

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

Product Comparison

Feature	XEM3010-1500P	XEM6010-LX45	XEM3050-4000P	XEM6010-LX150
FPGA Minimum Xilinx Tools Required	XC3S1500-4 ISE WebPack	XC6SLX45-2 ISE WebPack	XC3S4000-5 ISE Logic Edition	XC6SLX150-2 ISE Logic Edition
Slice Architecture¹	2 4-LUT, 2 DFF	4 6-LUT, 8 DFF	2 4-LUT, 2 DFF	4 6-LUT, 8 DFF
Slices	13,312	6,822	27,648	23,038
DFFs	26,624	54,576	55,296	184,304
Dist. RAM	208 Kib	401 Kib	432 Kib	1,355 Kib
Block RAM	576 Kib	2,088 Kib	1,728 Kib	4,824 Kib
MULT / DSP²	32	58	96	180
MCB³		✔		✔
PLLs⁴		✔ (4 CMT)		✔ (6 CMT)
On-Board Memory Banks, Width	32 MiB SDRAM One, x16	128 MiB DDR2 One, x16	64 MiB SDRAM Two, x16	128 MiB DDR2 One, x16
Peak Memory Bandwidth	2.128 Gb/s	10 Gb/s	4.256 Gb/s	10 Gb/s

¹ Spartan-6 has improved slice density with 6-input LUTs and more LUTs and DFFs per slice.
² Spartan-6 DSP blocks include MULT and integrated 48-bit accumulator.
³ Spartan-6 MCBs (memory controller blocks) reduce the fabric resources consumed for memory support.
⁴ Spartan-6 includes PLLs for greater clock management flexibility.

Technical Specifications and Support

Features & Specifications

Xilinx Spartan-6 (XC6SLX45-2FGG or XC6SLX150-2FGG)
32-Mib serial flash (Numonyx M32P25)
128-MiByte DDR2 (Micron MT47H64M16HR)
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)
Eight 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
JTAG pins available on the expansion connectors
Full FrontPanel virtual control panel support
Complete Application Programmer's Interface (API) in C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, and Java