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Tester Board

Description

We will use the Nexys 4 DDR Artix-7 FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays) board as our tester boards.

Brief Description

"The Nexys4 DDR board is a complete, ready-to-use digital circuit development platform based on the latest Artix-7™ Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Xilinx®. With its large, high-capacity FPGA (Xilinx part number XC7A100T-1CSG324C), generous external memories, and collection of USB, Ethernet, and other ports, the Nexys4 DDR can host designs ranging from introductory combinational circuits to powerful embedded processors. Several built-in peripherals, including an accelerometer, temperature sensor, MEMs digital microphone, a speaker amplifier, and several I/O devices allow the Nexys4 DDR to be used for a wide range of designs without needing any other components." (Quoted from the datasheet)

Programming

This tester board supports Vivado Design Suite as well as the ISE toolset. We plan to use Vivado Design Suite as our design software.

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