XEM6010

FPGA Development Board with AMD-Xilinx Spartan 6

Lifecycle status: End of Life Status: End of Life
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XEM6010-LX45
XC6SLX45-2C, 128-MiB
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XEM6010-LX150
XC6SLX150-2C, 128-MiB
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XEM6010-LX45I
XC6SLX45-2I, 128-MiB industrial temp
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XEM6010-LX150I
XC6SLX150-2I, 128-MiB, industrial temp
add to cart $849.95
BRK6110
Breakout Board
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EVB1005
5 Mp CMOS image sensor board
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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

Block diagram

Features

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128 MiB DDR2

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

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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.

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BOOTABLE SERIAL FLASH

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

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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