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Main Differences Between the Spartan-6 and Spartan-7

guillengap

Introduction Switching between hardware devices doesn't just involve making improvements, or fixing bugs. in this case we are talking about changes in the architecture. This blog will help you to better understand how the new device works and how to ...
- 7 Jun 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 (Getting Started with Xilinx Vivado)

vinayyn

Getting started with digilent FPGA Board With Xilinx Vivado. Here I am explaining the steps to create a simple project Using FPGA And Xilinx Vivado Software. In this project, I am Using Cmod S7 Onboard LED And Buttons To show an example. ...
- 6 Jun 2022
You Can Participate in the "7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6" Program Even if You had Not Received a Free Board

rscasny

I wanted to make sure anyone who had NOT received a free Arty S7 board from element14 still can participate in the program. I wished I had more than 25 boards to give out, but I have budget and stocking limitations. However, if you would like t...
- 6 Jun 2022
Let's count. Arty S7 software based counter

pandoramc

Sometimes the hardware module development could be more complex than expected. A way to solve it is using a General-Purpose Computing Architecture to solve some data transfers and processing by software. In this case, let's develop a 4-bit counter to...
- 4 Jun 2022
Arty S7 50 First Baremetal Software Project

javagoza

For the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 program I am writing a series of tutorials to explore the possibilities of the Arty S7 50 board. In the first tutorial we explored creating hardware-only projects without using pre-built IPs. In this t...
- 4 Jun 2022
Comparison between Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs

ralphjy

The Spartan-6 was introduced by Xilinx in 2009 and the follow on Spartan-7 in 2015. As semiconductor fabs move to newer process nodes older processes become less cost effective and production volumes decrease. Due to current shortages of Spartan-6 pa...
- 1 Jun 2022
Exploring 7 Series MIG Part - 1

hrishi98

Exploring 7 Series MIG Part - 1 Hello, last week I received the Arty S7 board as part of the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan 6 Challenge, on power-up LEDs started blinking using the preloaded binaries. Happy to see it working, but I was confused looking...
- 1 Jun 2022
From 6 to 7 series. A comparative approach.

pandoramc

This document is based on “Migrating Spartan-6 Designs to 7 Series & Beyond” document of Adam Taylor. There are a lot of interesting features in the new family and development tools. To describe these differences, I will use two cooki...
- 1 Jun 2022
Spartan-6 VS Spartan-7 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA : Comparison)

cbohra00627

Introduction: Spartan-7 is the evolution of the older Spartan-6 series with improved performance, reduced power consumption and some new features. This evolution also addresses the problem of semiconductor shortage by incorporating the 28nm process t...
- 31 May 2022
Reasons to switch from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGAs #1

rahulkhanna

This blog would let the newbies learn about Spartan FPGAs, the boards available in the market, and their differences. Now let's get this straight. In reading the resource guide, the challenges and mitigation strategies that can be imp...
- 30 May 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Challenge - Getting started

ralphjy

I just received my Arty S7 board for the Challenge - thanks Randall and Sean . I've only used a Spartan-6 once before, quite a few years ago on a Mojo V3 FPGA Development board. The specific part was a Spartan-6 XC6SLX9. ...
- 29 May 2022
Difference between Spartan 6 and Spartan 7

manojroy123

Spartan 7 has 36 kb BRAM where as Spartan 6 has 18kb. Spartan 7 offers BRAM cascading to build bigger memories. Such features are not available in Spartan 6. Spartan 7 uses Soft memory controller for DDR support whereas Spartan 6 uses Hard memory con...
- 29 May 2022
Difference between Spartan 6 and Spartan &

manojroy123

Spartan 7 has 36 kb BRAM where as Spartan 6 has 18kb. Spartan 7 offers BRAM cascading to build bigger memories. Such features are not available in Spartan 6. Spartan 7 uses Soft memory controller for DDR support whereas Spartan 6 uses Hard memory con...
- 29 May 2022
Time to Migrate Towards 7 Series

hrishi98

Differences Between Spartan 6 and 7 Series FPGAs Spartan 6 series of FPGAs were launched in 2009 consisting of LX and LXT series. Now due to various reasons, Spartan 6 FPGAs are getting outdated and designers are moving towards 7 series and higher-en...
- 29 May 2022
Arty S7 50 First Power Up and Hardware-Only Blinky

javagoza

I received the Digilent Arty S7 50 Board for the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA program. In this blog I describe what the first power up of the board is like and then a small tutorial on how to create your first H...
- 29 May 2022
Received Arty-S7 Board

misaz

Hello everyone. Yesterday I received Arty S7 Board for the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA contest. Board is offered available in two variants differing in FPGA. We received the better variant with Spartan XC7S50 FPGA featuring 52160 logic cells...
- 28 May 2022
Faster and resilient___Comparing the differences between the Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs

fyaocn

Comparing the differences between the Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs 1. The Challenge It is interesting to understand the Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGA migration by experimenting on it. In my perspective, the prominent improvement is the design concept,...
- 20 May 2022
From Spartan 6 to Spartan 7: The journey of hardware as well as software

rsjawale24

In this blog, I will compare the differences between the Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 families of the FPGA from Xilinx. Just to give a background, when I started with FPGAs back in 2013, Spartan 3 was the popular FPGA due to its low cost. Now the FPGA fam...
- 12 May 2022
From Spartan 6 to Spartan 7

redcharly

Xilinx produced Spartan-6 technology in 2009 to use it for industrial networks, vehicle networking, and connectivity, and high-resolution video and graphics. It was a successful technology and is still used today. Since 2017 Xilinx has introduced Spa...
- 1 May 2022
Xilinx Spartan-7 vs Spartan-6

dramoz

Xilinx Sparta-6 was introduced in 2009 and it was a success. Lower cost on development boards, ICs, and free development tools make it a nice add-on for embedded systems that required more computing power (or multiple IO ports - or interfaces) while ...
- 28 Apr 2022
POLL What's the Next Step for the FPGA Group?

rscasny

element14 has been doing a lot of content and projects on FPGAs and related products. The company has supported as not only with knowledged-based events and activities like roadtests and our current running special campaign on the Spartan-6 to -7 Mig...
- 25 Apr 2022
Connecting PMOD LCD to Minized - step by step

bartokon

Hello there! I have recently created a tutorial for Minized that covers SPI PMOD LCD connection and displaying some random data on it. Here are step-by-step instructions on how to connect SPI LCD to Minized. First, we need to create V...
- 12 Apr 2022
PYNQ - Interactive C++ on the Kria-SoM in Jupyter Lab

ralphjy

I saw this post by Shane Fleming on the PYNQ discussion board that I thought would be of interest to the PYNQ users in the E14 community: Interactive C++ on the Kria SoM in Jupyter Lab It caught my eye because up to this point I haven't tri...
- 22 Feb 2022
Ultra96-V2 Dual Camera Design for 2021.2

albertabeef

Introduction This blog post provides details on how to build and execute the new 2021.2 design for the Ultra96-V2 development board with Dual-Camera Mezzanine. Design Overview The following block diagram illustrates the 2...
- 7 Feb 2022
Vitis-AI 2.0 Flow for Avnet Vitis platforms

albertabeef

Avnet is working on Vitis 2021.2 platforms for several of their hardware platforms. Thanks to this work, I was able to port Vitis-AI 2.0 on the following platforms: Ultra96-V2 Development Board UltraZed-EV SOM (7EV) + FMC Carrier Card UltraZed-EG SO...
- 7 Feb 2022