Digilent 410-182P-KIT User Manual
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Revision: April 10, 2013
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Overview
The Nexys3 is a complete, ready-to-use
digital circuit development platform based on
the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA. The
Spartan-6 is optimized for high performance
logic, and offers more than 50% higher
capacity, higher performance, and more
re
sources as compared to the Nexys2’s
Spartan-3 500E FPGA. Spartan-6 LX16
features include:
2,278 slices each containing four 6-
input LUTs and eight flip-flops
576Kbits of fast block RAM
two clock tiles (four DCMs & two PLLs)
32 DSP slices
500MHz+ clock speeds
In addition to the Spartan-6 FPGA, the
Nexys3 offers an improved collection of
peripherals
including 32Mbytes of Micron’s
latest Phase Change nonvolatile memory, a
10/100 Ethernet PHY, 16Mbytes of Cellular
RAM, a USB-UART port, a USB host port for
mice and keyboards, and an improved high-
speed expansion connector. The large FPGA
and broad set of peripherals make the
Nexys3 board an ideal host for a wide range
of digital systems, including embedded
processor designs based on Xilinx’s
MicroBlaze.
Nexys3 is compatible with all Xilinx CAD
tools, including ChipScope, EDK, and the
free WebPack. The Nexys3 uses Digilent's
newest Adept USB2 system that offers FPGA
and ROM programming, automated board
tests, virtual I/O, and simplified user-data
transfer facilities.
A comprehensive collection of board support IP and reference designs, and a large collection of add-
on boards are available on the Digilent website. Please see the Nexys3 page at
for more information.
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Cellular RAM
16MByte
High-Speed
Expansion
USB HID Host
Mouse/Keyboard
Spartan-6
XC6SLX16
CSG324C
Basic I/O
LEDs, Btns, Swts
Pmod Port
Expansion
8
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32
4
USB-UART
2
Clock 100MHz
Adept USB2
Config & data
SPI PCM (x4)
Nonvolatile
Memory
16MByte
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10/100
Ethernet PHY
Parallel PCM
Nonvolatile
Memory
16MByte
10
8-bit VGA
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Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA in a 324-pin BGA package
16Mbyte Cellular RAM (x16)
16Mbytes SPI (quad mode) PCM non-volatile memory
16Mbytes parallel PCM non-volatile memory
10/100 Ethernet PHY
On-board USB2 port for programming & data xfer
USB-UART and USB-HID port (for mouse/keyboard)
8-bit VGA port
100MHz CMOS oscillator
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I/O’s routed to expansion connectors
GPIO includes 8 LEDs, 5 buttons,8 slide switches and
4-digit seven-segment display
USB2 programming cable included