XEM3050

FPGA Development Board with AMD-Xilinx Spartan 3

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1 PC
XEM3050-4000P
XC3S4000, 64-MiB, 8-Mb Serial Flash
add to cart $699.95
BRK3010
Breakout Board
add to cart $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.

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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64 MiB SDRAM

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

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9 MiB SSRAM

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

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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.

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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