Xilinx® Spartan®-6 LX16 Evaluation Kit

The Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA introduces significant enhancements in the low-power FPGA arena, with industry-leading features such as suspend and hibernate, combined with up to 60% less operating power compared to Spartan-3A. Utilizing Spartan-6, Avnet introduces the first-ever battery-powered Xilinx FPGA development board, the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 Evaluation Kit.

Texas Instruments provides the battery management devices and power regulation circuitry. TI's load switches selectively power only those circuits immediately necessary.

Enabling such a battery-powered system requires an ultra-low-power controller. Enter the Cypress PSoC® 3 Programmable System on Chip with embedded 8051. PSoC is a programmable device with programmable analog and digital peripherals, some of which control the regulation and load switches in the battery-powered system. One PSoC analog peripheral is a multi-plexed LCD drive unit. Connect this to a highly unique, customized LCD panel, and get a powerful differentiator for your next product.

Key Features

  • Spartan-6 LX16-CSG324 FPGA
  • Cypress PSoC®3 programmable embedded system-on-chip
    • Single-cycle 67 MHz 8051 core
    • Four CapSense® switches
    • USB-UART
    • FPGA configuration over USB
    • Serial flash programming
    • In-system power monitoring
    • LCD drive
  • Texas Instruments battery management and voltage regulators
  • Custom MicroTips segment LCD add-on module
  • Single cell Li-ion 18650 (~2500 mAh)
  • 64 MB LPDDR SDRAM
  • 16 MB multi-bit serial flash
  • 10/100 ethernet PHY
  • 66.6 MHz oscillator
  • Over-voltage and ESD protection on USB
  • LPC FMC expansion header
  • 20 x 2, 0.1-inch user I/O header (MXP)
  • Two 2 x 6 PMOD expansion ports
  • Four LEDs
  • SPI configuration
  • JTAG interface

Target Applications

  • Low-cost FPGA development
  • Handheld data gathering
  • FPGA / PSoC co-development
  • Human machine interfaces
  • Embedded control
  • MicroBlaze™ applications
  • Low-power / battery-power

Kit Content

  • Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 DSP FPGA
  • LCD add-on panel
  • USB A-mini B cable
  • ISE® WebPACK™ DVD
  • Getting Started Guide
  • AvProg configuration and programming utility
  • Downloadable documentation and reference design

Available Options

AES-S6EV-LX16-G

Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 Evaluation Kit

USD 225.-

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