The Spartan 7 Tile provides developers with the following
The tile measures 59mm x 59 mm and provides the following
Supply voltage 4.5 to 18V
Spartan 7 XC7S25 with 23,360 Logic Cells, 80 DSP, 45 BRAM
Configuration Memory 256Mbit QSPI
Done LED
Two user LED
USB JTAG - Connector needed on carrier board
100 MHz Oscillator
Reset Button
Boot selection header (JTAG/QSPI)
PSRAM – 32Mbit – Seral RAM connected to the FPGA
82 IO including – Power and Ground, JTAG, 32 IO at 3v3, 41 IO configurable voltage (3v3-1.2V and LVDS)
To help get started using the Spartan 7 Tile the following is provided
User guide
Schematic
Vivado Board definition
Reference Designs - Including IP to enable processor to access FPGA internals using processor UART / SPI
Tile footprint in Altium to help accelerate your design.
Adiuvo can be contracted to develop your application or assist with it.
Typical applications which would benefit from the Spartan 7 Tile include
System Controller – Power supply sequencing, power monitoring, configuration management, board management and supervision / communication interface.
Protocol conversion – Convert to and from bespoke / legacy protocol.
Sensor Aggregation – Aggregate several different sensor types for easy access by processor
IO expansion – Provide additional interfaces e.g. QSPI, SPI, I2C etc.
Processing offloading – e.g. Control algorithm e.g. PID, Filtering, co processing , encryption / decryption of data streams entering and leaving system
Health and Usage Monitoring systems – Integrate with sensors e.g. accelerometer, pressure, humidity etc to monitor the environmental operating conditions.
Rapid Prototyping – quickly demonstrate the concept required in a FPGA.
Reduces risk of FPGA integration / Removes obsolescence management issues
Available to pre order here
