XEM3005

FPGA Development Board with AMD-Xilinx Spartan 3

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XEM3005-1200M32P XC3S1200E, 32-MiB, 4-Mb Flash	$999.95
BRK3005 Breakout Board	$49.95

The Opal Kelly XEM3005-1200M32P is an FPGA development board based on a 1,200,000-gate Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM3005 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0 for 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

32 MiB SDRAM

Integrated 32-MByte SDRAM provides abundant on-board memory for high-performance applications, including image capture and data acquisition.

4 Mib SPI SERIAL FLASH

A 4-Mbit SPI Serial Flash device is included for FPGA configuration or general data storage. An on-board switch lets you choose between USB or Flash for FPGA configuration, enabling full stand-alone operation. USB communication via FrontPanel is available in either mode.

JUST ADD POWER

You provide +3.3v and +1.2v power through the expansion connectors or a 0.1" header on-board. This decreases overall system cost by eliminating redundant supplies.

MULTI-OUTPUT PLL

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

Customer Deployments

Test equipment for cell phone manufacturing
Evaluation platform for semiconductors
Test equipment for infrared camera quality control
High throughput screen tools for drug discovery
X-ray and gamma-ray radiation detection devices
X-ray and gamma-ray radiation detection devices

Applications

Image or video capture / processing
Data acquisition
Digital communications
High-speed USB/FPGA co-processor
Evaluation platform for your product
Custom test equipment

Technical Specifications and Support

Features & Specifications

Smaller than a credit card at 42mm x 62mm x 7.43mm (1.65" x 2.44" x 0.29")
Compact type Mini-B USB connector
Xilinx Spartan-3E (XC3S1200E-4FTG256)
4-Mb Serial SPI Flash for configuration storage and standalone operation
32-MB SDRAM (Micron MT48LC16M16).
High-speed USB 2.0 interface for configuration and control
FrontPanel-3 Firmware
Multi-output clock generator (Cypress CY22150)
Four LEDs
Switch-selectable boot option: Flash or USB
Two 80-pin 0.8mm board-to-board connectors (Samtec BSE-040)
67 user I/O, 36 Input and 2 GCLK pins available
Independent access to one VCCO bank voltage
JTAG pins available on a 2mm 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.