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Hello guys, I am a new person on this forum and would like to ask a few questions.

First off, I am currently in my 6th semester in an Electrical Engineering course and I have studied programming using VHDL. However that course had a lot of theory and not a lot of practical implementation, even though we did study a lot of programming.

So I was wondering what are the differences between a board such as a Nexys4 and the Zedboard?

What are the practical applications of the two, as in what sort of projects can be built using these devices.

We used to program in a software by Mentor Graphics, the HDL Designer Series. These would then be implemented on a Spartan IIe board. The programs included things like implementing multiplexers, priority encoders, up/down counters.

Can such programs be implemented on the Zedboard too?
I think they can be implemented on the Nexys 4 but what about zedboard?

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    The Nexys 4 board is based on the Xilinx Artix XC7A100T device. The Zedboard is based on the Xilinx XC7Z020 device. Both have the same 'Artix' based FPGA fabric with similar performance and non-processor based features. The Artix XC7A100T has a little more FPGA fabric ~101K logic cells vs the XC7Z020 ~ 85K logic cells with similar amounts of RAM and DSP resources. Both boards are supported by the Vivado tool suite. If you only plan to implement HDL designs in the FPGA fabric the Nexys 4 board is a less expensive option.

     

    The ZedBoard Zynq device adds dual ARM 9 processor cores, so if you plan to experiment with any software or processor based design this makes more sense. You can of course implement an HDL only based design for the ZedBoard with a very basic ARM project that only uses the ARM to load the Programmable Logic bitstream.

     

    -Gary

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    The Nexys 4 board is based on the Xilinx Artix XC7A100T device. The Zedboard is based on the Xilinx XC7Z020 device. Both have the same 'Artix' based FPGA fabric with similar performance and non-processor based features. The Artix XC7A100T has a little more FPGA fabric ~101K logic cells vs the XC7Z020 ~ 85K logic cells with similar amounts of RAM and DSP resources. Both boards are supported by the Vivado tool suite. If you only plan to implement HDL designs in the FPGA fabric the Nexys 4 board is a less expensive option.

     

    The ZedBoard Zynq device adds dual ARM 9 processor cores, so if you plan to experiment with any software or processor based design this makes more sense. You can of course implement an HDL only based design for the ZedBoard with a very basic ARM project that only uses the ARM to load the Programmable Logic bitstream.

     

    -Gary

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