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Documents Would You Be Interested in Building a Project with the Digilent Basys3 Entry Level FPGA Dev Board?
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  • Author Author: rscasny
  • Date Created: 16 Oct 2017 12:25 AM Date Created
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Would You Be Interested in Building a Project with the Digilent Basys3 Entry Level FPGA Dev Board?

The Basys3 board is a complete, ready-to-use digital circuit development platform based on the latest Artix Registered-7  Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Xilinx Registered. With its high -capacity FPGA, low overall cost, and collection of USB, VGA, and other ports, the Basys3 can host designs ranging from introductory combinational circuits to complex sequential circuits like embedded processors an d controllers. It includes enough switches, LEDs , and other I/O devices to allow a large number of designs to be completed without  the need for any additional hardware, and enough uncommitted FPGA I/O pins to allow designs to be expanded  using Digilent Pmods or other custom boards and circuits.

 

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Features

  • 1,800 Kbits of fast block RAM
  • 12-bit VGA output
  • 16 user LEDs
  • 16 user switches
  • 33,280 logic cells in 5200 slices (each slice contains four 6-input LUTs and 8 flip-flops)
  • 4 Pmod ports: 3 Standard 12-pin Pmod ports, 1 dual purpose XADC signal / standard Pmod port
  • 4-digit 7-segment display
  • 5 user pushbuttons
  • 90 DSP slices
  • Designed Exclusively for Vivado Design Suite. Expanded features are available through purchase of the Design Edition.
  • Digilent USB-JTAG port for FPGA programming and communication
  • Features the Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA: XC7A35T-1CPG236C
  • Five clock management tiles, each with a phase-locked loop (PLL)
  • Free WebPACKTm download for standard use.
  • Internal clock speeds exceeding 450 MHz
  • On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
  • Serial Flash
  • USB HID Host for mice, keyboards and memory sticks
  • USB-UART Bridge

 

What would you build?

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 7 years ago +3
    Having a built in VGA port is a great feature on a dev board, easy to implement graphical applications and the pmod ports look really useful too!
  • jomoenginer
    jomoenginer over 7 years ago +3
    Creating a retro game console that uses the VGA output would be a cool project to tackle. I have seen a few examples of this and I would be interested in seeing what I could some up with using the Basys…
  • kas.lewis
    kas.lewis over 7 years ago +2
    Is this board as well setup for beginners as the pervious road test board? If so just the idea of beaingable to learn how to use an FPGA would be a big win and once you get a feel for what they can do…
  • pauksk
    pauksk over 7 years ago in reply to rtraher@cox.net

    Or maybe do some processing in SDR applications.

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  • fpobdoc
    fpobdoc over 7 years ago

    I would be interested if this was for beginners.  I've got experience with micro controllers but FPGAs seem daunting to me.

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  • sorin.moisa
    sorin.moisa over 7 years ago

    Hello friends.

     

    I would use this board in order to implement an Fast Fourier Transform algorithm . I am teaching a course of digital signal procesing in Technical University of Iasi and this board will be a very useful tool to suport the understanding and the usage of FFT in fields like: vocal recognition systems, acoustics, harmonic analysis of power. Since this board has an VGA output I would use this port in order to display the results and together with an touch screen display I would build an user interface.

     

    Thank you for your kind support

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  • gam3t3ch
    gam3t3ch over 7 years ago

    I have to say before becoming a member of the community I would probably have not considered wanting to play with something like this.  But that being said my interest has grown so much after reading blogs and roadtest and so on. So ya this looks darn interesting to me now.  Lol

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  • pola
    pola over 7 years ago

    I would like to build up a test measurement in a SEM (scanning electron microscope) for magnetic domain measurement, it is very suitable, it can control the beam position, can acquire the magnetic signal  synchronous with beam positions, I hope that with some  Pmods I can build up this measurement with minimum effort

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  • jomoenginer
    jomoenginer over 7 years ago

    Creating a retro game console that uses the VGA output would be a cool project to tackle.  I have seen a few examples of this and I would be interested in seeing what I could some up with using the Basys 3. 

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  • tonymcgregor
    tonymcgregor over 7 years ago

    We've used the earlier versions of these in our undergraduate computer architecture teaching for ten years or so.  They're excellent. After about 6 weeks of classes  students build a VERY simple microcoded CPU their final project.  

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  • rtraher@cox.net
    rtraher@cox.net over 7 years ago

    I think it could be used to make a ham radio antenna analyzer.

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  • catacluj
    catacluj over 7 years ago

    If suitable for FPGA beginners, I would try to use this to replace a sequencer currently running in a microcontroller (and therefore multiple "things" can only happen sequentially even though ideally they would be simultaneous) with a simple timer/counter and many Output Compare Units that would trigger as many outputs as needed, all in parallel.

    Some difficulty would be that I also need to trigger SPI transactions; so some kind of DMA would be nice, or a simple uController core might be needed for this, as it should also accept simple commands from an UART.

    It might take me a while though as I work full time but we are aiming to do that anyway eventually.

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    Former Member over 7 years ago

    Having a built in VGA port is a great feature on a dev board, easy to implement graphical applications and the pmod ports look really useful too!

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