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Winners Announced: We're Giving Away Up to 10 Arty-S7 Boards to Use in an Upcoming Xilinx Workshop!

We're Giving Away Up to 10 Boards for Our Upcoming Arty-S7 Workshop!

 

In the Comments Below: Let Us Know Why You Are Interested in the Upcoming Arty 7 Workshop for a Chance to Win!

 

If you're a maker or an engineer who's interested in getting into FPGA, we're making it easier than ever to get started.  We're following up the Getting Started with Xilinx Development Tools webinar and the 3 part Xilinx Workshop: Getting to Know Vivado Series with Adam Taylor with a workshop that let's you use a board compatible with Vivado for your next project.The Arty S7 board features the new Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA and is the latest member of the Arty FPGA development board family from Digilent. The Arty S7 board features new Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA and is the latest member of the Arty family for Makers and Hobbyists.  This little dev board is something that we think you will be interested, especially if you've attended our previous Xillinx workshops. It hits a sweet spot of having a relatively low cost ($99 USD) and enough power and connectivity be very useful.

 

There's been a lot of interest in the Vivado Workshop series and Xilinx webinars in general.  We're interested in why you're interested in attending the upcoming workshop and how you plan on using the board.  Reply in the comments below to register your interest so we can arrange to have an Arty 7 board sent to you in time to follow along with our workshop!  You can also purchase an Arty-S7 board as well as the other PMOD Board here:

 

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The Spartan-7 FPGA offers the most size, performance, and cost-conscious design engineered with the latest technologies from Xilinx and is fully compatible with Vivado Design Suite versions 2017.3 and newer. Putting this FPGA in the Arty form factor provides users with a wide variety of I/O and expansion options. Use the dual row ArduinoRegistered connectors to mount one of the hundreds of hardware compatible shields available, or use the Pmod ports with Digilent's pre-made Pmod IP blocks for a more streamlined design experience. Arty S7 was designed to be MicroBlaze ready and comes out of the box ready to use with the free Xilinx WebPack licensing with the Vivado Design Suite.

 

Here's a good primer that shows you all the cool things you can do with Arty-S7 board:

 

  • Great Starter Board for Traditional FPGA Design -- Arty-S7 (Spartan-7)

 

Dates and Register for Free:

 

Workshop:Dates and Time:

Session 1 - Learn about Xilinx FPGAs and Embedded Processing

 

Lecture

  • Why Xilinx FPGAs solve common challenges of ASSPs
  • Xilinx Product Offering
  • Embedded Processing Solutions

Lab

  • Install Xilinx tools

Wednesday, 30th of September 2020

 

11:00 CT / 4:00 PM GMT

 

  • Arty-S7 Workshop: Part 1: Learn about Xilinx FPGAs and Embedded Processing

Session 2 – Building a custom microcontroller in minutes

 

Lecture

  • How to get started using Xilinx Vivado Design Tools
  • Xilinx Example projects jumpstart designs

Lab

  • Launch processor on Arty-S7 and run Hello World

Wednesday, 14th of Oct 2020

 

11:00 CT / 4:00 PM GMT

 

  • Arty-S7 Workshop: Part 2: Building a Custom Microcontroller in Minutes

Session 3 – Rapid Sensor Prototyping with Digilent Peripheral Modules

 

Lecture

  • How to expand Xilinx IP catalog with 3rd party IP
  • Leverage IP to build custom interface w/o writing RTL
  • Add prebuilt IP drivers and communicate with sensors
  • Lab
    • Run example design with Arty-S7, MicroBlaze, and PmodNAV

Wednesday, 28th of Oct 2020

 

11:00 CT / 4:00 PM GMT

 

  • Arty-S7 Workshop: Part 3: Rapid Sensor Prototyping with Digilent Peripheral Modules
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  • tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad over 5 years ago +10
    Congratulations to navadeepganeshu , moi8765 , sambit1991 , neuromodulator , embeddedguy , dang74 , bbolo1 , cmelement14 , gordonmx , and parasquid . You are the winners of the Arty S-7 boards. We look…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 5 years ago in reply to Fred27 +7
    It's not so much a hobbyist thing - most are happy with ready made boards. I have had many clients who could not stand the add on cost of using BGA packages in the early stages of a project. And also quite…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 5 years ago +5
    It's nice that Xilinx are promoting the Spartan7 and design tools, and nice that E14/Farnell are involved - but they are missing a very important trick. The Spartan 7 processors are reasonably cheap in…
  • parasquid
    parasquid over 5 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Hm, did they use the address on our profile? Would you happen to know the tracking numbers so we can track them as well? I had some issues before with shipping where they never put the phone number, and due to the lockdowns couriers were required to call and do contactless delivery, so my package was stuck at the courier's until I followed up.

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  • tariq.ahmad
    tariq.ahmad over 5 years ago

    The boards shipped out Monday from what I was told by the event sponsor.   Idea is to have these to you before the workshop.   In the event they are delayed you should be able to follow along on demand but we are trying to get them to you so you can follow along with the live event and ask questions.

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  • kamtar
    kamtar over 5 years ago in reply to neuromodulator

    if you just got a coupon for 100% off for eshop then that's to be expected. They will expedite it as if you bought it. It happened to me with some stuff from NXP so I refused to accept it because it would end-up costing more then if I would buy that board here.

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  • neuromodulator
    neuromodulator over 5 years ago

    Have anyone received the board? Today I received a message from DHL, where to my surprise I noticed that the board was sent by AVNET with "duties & taxes" charged to the "consignee" (77 USD in my case).

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 5 years ago in reply to bbolo1

    Be careful assuming that though. I've been caught out a few times by courses and examples needing earlier versions of Vivado.

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  • cmelement14
    cmelement14 over 5 years ago in reply to gordonmx

    Installing Xilinx tools such as Vivado/Vitis does take quite some time (usually a couple of hours including download and installation). Thus it would be nice to have it installed before the workshop. Any version released in the last couple of years should work with Spartan-7 device. I installed Vitis 2019.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 ViritualBox virtual machine because I may use the same installation to experiment AI acceleration platform later. In general, I don't install the latest version.

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  • bbolo1
    bbolo1 over 5 years ago in reply to Fred27

    I guess for the workshop Vivado/Vitis (the latest release) should be used unless there are some known major issues preventing using it with the webinar materials.

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 5 years ago in reply to gordonmx

    gordonmx  wrote:

     

    Just out of curiosity is there pre-session prep needed for the first session?  Do we need to install the Xilinx tools/IDE before class?

     

    Regards, Gordon M

    It looks like the first workshop starts with the very basics and the lab is entitled "Install Xilinx Tools". However, it's worth mentioning that Vivado / Vitis is a very large download. If you want to do this in advance, I'm going to guess that you'll be using Vitis 2020.1 but I could be wrong.

     

    Tip: Deselect some of the high end parts you're unlikely to be using if you want to save some disk space on installation. Under Devices / Devices for Custom Platforms, leave SoCs and 7 Series selected but deselect UltraScale and UltraScale+ where you'll find the Kintex and Virtex devices.

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  • sambit1991
    sambit1991 over 5 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Hello Tariq,

     

    Have the boards been shipped already?

    Just curiosity.

     

    Best Regards

    Sambit

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    gordonmx over 5 years ago

    Just out of curiosity is there pre-session prep needed for the first session?  Do we need to install the Xilinx tools/IDE before class?

     

    Regards, Gordon M

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