Mimas A7 Mini FPGA Development Board
Mimas A7 Mini is an easy to use FPGA Development board featuring Artix 7 FPGA (XC7A35T – FTG256C package) with FTDI’s FT2232H Dual-Channel USB device. It is an Artix-7 based replacement and upgrades of
Mimas Spartan 6 FPGA Board. It is specially designed for the development and integration of FPGA based accelerated features to other designs. The USB 2.0 host interface based on popular FT2232H offers high bandwidth data transfer and board programming without the need for any external programming adapters.
Features
- Device: Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA (XC7A35T-1FTG256C)
- DDR3: 2Gb DDR3 (MT41J128M16JT-125 or equivalent)
- Built-in programming interface. No expensive JTAG adapters needed for programming the board
- Onboard 128Mb flash memory for FPGA configuration storage and custom user data storage
- High-Speed USB 2.0 interface for On-board flash programming. FT2232H Channel B is dedicated to JTAG Programming. Channel A can be used for custom applications
- 100MHz CMOS oscillator
- 8 LEDs, 1 RGB LED and 4 Push Buttons for user-defined purposes
- FPGA configuration via JTAG and USB
- Maximum IOs for user-defined purposes
- FPGA – 70 IOs (35 professionally length matched Differential Pairs) and two 2×6 Expansion Headers
Applications
- Product Prototype Development
- Accelerated computing integration
- Development and testing of custom embedded processors
- Communication devices development
- Educational tool for Schools and Universities
