XEM3001

FPGA Development Board with AMD Spartan 3

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XEM3001
XC3S400 AMD Spartan-3
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The Opal Kelly XEM3001 is an FPGA development board based on a 400,000-gate AMD Spartan-3 FPGA (XC3S400-4PQ208C). In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM3001 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0 for configuration downloads, enabling an almost instant reprogramming of the FPGA. The XEM3001 features flexible clocking with a multi-output clock generator that can generate clock frequencies from 1 MHz to 150 MHz. If higher frequencies are needed, the clock multipliers in the FPGA can be used.

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.

FlashPrototyping 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.


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Features

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FRONTPANEL VIRTUAL INTERFACE

Virtual interface elements such as buttons, LEDs, and hex displays make cumbersome "I/O Boards" a thing of the past.

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ABUNDANT I/O

86 I/Os and 6 CLK pins are all arranged on a common 0.1" grid for easy prototyping.

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MULTI-OUTPUT PLL

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

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BUS- OR SELF-POWERED

The XEM3001 comes configured as a bus-powered device. With the removal of a jumper, you can configure the module to be self-powered.

Customer Deployments

  • Test system for laser toner remanufacturing equipment
  • Test chips used in power modules
  • Test equipment for infrared cameras
  • Custom boards for aerospace
  • X-ray and gamma-ray radiation detectors
  • Semiconductor evaluation and testing
  • 3D imaging cameras
  • Flight simulators
  • Sonar signal emulation system
  • Laser satellite tracking system

Applications

  • Test fixtures
  • Rapid hardware prototyping
  • Data acquisition
  • Student / hobbyist FPGA module
  • Evaluation platform for your product
  • Custom test equipment

Technical Specifications and Support

Features & Specifications

  • Small form-factor -- credit-card sized (3.5" x 2.0" x 0.61" / 88.9mm x 50.8mm x 15.4mm)
  • High-speed USB 2.0 interface for downloading and control
  • Bus-powered or self-powered operation
  • Clock generator PLL for programmable clock rate
  • Four pushbuttons
  • Eight LEDs
  • Two 50-pin dual-row 0.1" headers (36 I/Os + 2 CLKs each)
  • Single 20-pin dual-row 0.1" header (14 I/Os + 2 CLKs)
  • JTAG header
  • All four headers arranged on a common 0.1" grid
  • Full FrontPanel virtual control panel support
  • Transfer rates of up to 36 MBytes/second between the PC and FPGA
  • Complete Application Programmer's Interface (API) in C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, and Java