7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA: Arty S7 Activities

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Note: This is not a standard roadtest. It is part of a program sponsored by AMD-Xilinx called 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA. Applying for this roadtest enrolls you into this program and gives you the chance to obtain the ARTY S7 board for the point-earning activities.

About 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA
7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 is an element14 community program run in conjunction with AMD-Xilinx to teach you about the migration from the Spartan-6 to the Spartan-7 FPGAs.

The AMD-Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA family was introduced in 2009. With current parts shortages, designers are learning how to migrate their designs to the newer Spartan-7 FPGA. element14 is inviting you to participate in this fun activity, where you can win great prizes by putting a twist on an old song with element14’s 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6. To learn more about this program, go here.

How To Play
You have to play to win, and in the process, you'll learn about the Spartan-7 FPGA family. Every two weeks, element14 will go live with a new activity that will help you better understand the Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGA migration. Our judges will award you points for every activity you do. At the end of the program, element14 will tally up the points, and the top point-getters will win some great prizes.

How To Receive An Arty S7
Some of the activities below require a dev board. We have 25 boards to give away for this activity. To get a board, please click the orange ENROLL NOW button and complete a short application form. The best applicants will be shipped a free board.

element14 has only 25 boards to give out. If you don't get a free board, you can still join this competition, but you would need to get a board.

The Activities
The activities for the competition are listed below. Just post your blogs or projects in the FPGA group and tag it with “Spartan_Migration.” The deadline for completion of all activities is August 1, 2022.

In bold are the activities that require an Arty S7 board.

• Write a blog comparing the differences between the Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs. Up to 10 points
• Take our quiz here with available resource guide to help. Up to 10 points
• Build a project with the Arty S7. Up to 50 points
• Ask/answer a question or start a discussion. Up to 25 points
• Add a sensor to your project. Up to 50 points
• Use your ongoing project to create an experiment. Up to 50 points
• Write a summary blog on what you learned about the Spartan-7 FPGA. Up to 15 points

Arty S7 Resources
The Arty S7 is an affordable, ready-to-use development platform designed around the Xilinx Spartan®-7 FPGA family. With the Spartan®-7 devices, the Arty S7 board offers best-in-class performance-per-watt, along with small form-factor packaging to meet the most stringent requirements. With the MicroBlaze Soft Processor Core from Xilinx, you can create embedded applications with a variety of peripherals, memory, and interfaces.

• Datasheet
• Reference Manual

Terms and Conditions

Go here to read the Terms and Conditions of this competition.