Digilent Basys 3™ Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board

Digilent Basys 3™ Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board is an entry-level FPGA development board designed exclusively for Vivado Design Suite, featuring the Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA architecture. Basys 3 is the current addition to the famous Basys line of FPGA development boards and is ideally suited for students or beginners just getting started with FPGA technology. The Digilent Basys 3 includes the standard features on all Basys boards: complete ready-to-use hardware, an extensive collection of onboard I/O devices, and all required FPGA support circuits. It also includes a free version of development tools at a student-level price point.

Features

  • Features the Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA (XC7A35T-1CPG236C)
  • 33,280 logic cells in 5200 slices (each slice contains four 6-input LUTs and eight flip-flops)
  • 1,800Kbits of fast block RAM
  • Five clock management tiles, each with a phase-locked loop (PLL)
  • 90 DSP slices
  • Internal clock speeds exceeding 450MHz
  • On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
  • Digilent USB-JTAG port for FPGA programming and communication
  • Designed exclusively for Vivado Design Suite
    • Vivado Design Suite WebPACK edition can be downloaded for free from Xilinx
    • Expanded features are available through the purchase of the Design Edition
  • Free WebPACK™ download for standard use
  • Micro-B USB cable is not included
  • Serial Flash
  • USB-UART bridge
  • 12-bit VGA output
  • USB HID Host for mice, keyboards, and memory sticks
  • 16 user switches
  • 16 user LEDs
  • Five user pushbuttons
  • 4-digit 7-segment display
  • 4 Pmod ports: 3 Standard 12-pin Pmod ports, one dual-purpose XADC signal/standard Pmod port

Board Layout

Chart - Digilent Basys 3™ Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board
Published: 2020-03-27 | Updated: 2024-04-19