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 Arduino 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

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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neuromodulator over 6 years ago in reply to Fred27

DACs are very interesting, and through the right techniques, you can achieve very high speeds or high resolution. I implemented a simple 1st order delta sigma rc-lowpassed DAC in my FPGA Lorenz ODE solver P14 project, and the results were good enough for my needs, but lots of things could have been improved to increase resolution and speed (in the digital and the analog realm). There are way too many different DAC techniques around that can be easily prototyped with FPGAs, from single approach techniques to hybrid techniques.
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Fred27 over 6 years ago in reply to kamtar

Ah - that makes sense. I thought we were hoping to do the analog bit within the FPGA.
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kamtar over 6 years ago in reply to Fred27

delta sigma PWM modulator with external low pass filter, don't know much about specific details.. that would be the learning part.
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Fred27 over 6 years ago in reply to kamtar

How would you design a DAC in an FPGA?
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kamtar over 6 years ago

It would be nice because I was thinking for a while about getting more into a DAC theory and maybe designing one in FPGA as a learning experience.
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ahmad.zaklouta over 6 years ago

I believe this board would make me survive the current COVID19 crisis and the horrible coming Swedish winter . I am interested in getting into HLS and VITIS and using it for accelerating image application.Also try LEON processor on it.
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zst123 over 6 years ago

This board is interesting especially with the Arduino headers and Pmod connectors. Would love to take a look at it one day
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hugohu over 6 years ago

My "experience" with FPGA is mostly of using a board once, and reading a bunch of projects. I hope that with the Arty-S7 and the workshop I can learn FPGA. This would also allow me to gain experience with Vitis and Vivado, as well as PMOD.

Furthermore, I would be able to use the Arty-S7 in a variety of projects I have in mind, such as projects involving of FPGA design.

Thus this workshop and if I get an Arty-S7 would be very beneficial to my start in FPGA.

I'm very interested in "building a custom microcontroller in minutes", sounds like something I'd do since most of the boards on market aren't very suitable for my purposes.

From what I've heard Vitis and Vivado are quite popular, so if element14 sends me one, I'll be able to get real hands-on experience which should be very beneficial.

I researched a bit into projects with the ArtyS7. One of the popular ones is an environmental sensing device. The Arty-S7 has an Arduino compatible pin header, which will allow it to use generic Arduino Uno Shields which expands the number of possibilities with the board, I am very excited at the prospect of potentially trying this out.

Lastly, I love to work with sensors, and these PMOD modules seem similar to Grove/STEMMA ones, but found on FPGA boards. They will be very interesting to use.

FPGA seems to be quite popular these days, don't want to miss out on it.
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hugohu over 6 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

There is... I don't use SMD anytime DIP is possible, when it's not I try to get SOIC to use in an adapter board to DIP and if that's not possible I take a shot at soldering the lovely uMax 3x3mm package.

My success rate is 33% right now.
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freedom over 6 years ago

Playing with the hardware during the Workshops will be great.
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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!

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

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