Alchitry Au FPGA Development Board (Xilinx Artix 7)

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The Alchitry Au is the "gold" standard for FPGA development boards and it's possibly one of the

strongest boards of its type on the market. FPGAs, or Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, are an

advanced development board type for engineers and hobbyists alike to experience the next step in

programming with electronics. The Au continues the trend of more affordable and increasingly

powerful FPGA boards arriving each year. This board is a fantastic starting point into the world of

FPGAs and the heart of your next project. Finally, now that this board is built by SparkFun, we

The Alchitry Au features a Xilinx Artix 7 XC7A35T-1C FPGA with over 33,000 logic cells and 256MB

of DDR3 RAM. The Au offers 102 3.3V logic level IO pins, 20 of which can be switched to 1.8V; Nine

differential analog inputs; Eight general purpose LEDs; a 100MHz on-board clock that can be

manipulated internally by the FPGA; a USB-C connector to configure and power the board; and a

USB to serial interface for data transfer. To make getting started even easier, all Alchitry boards

By adding stackable expansion boards similar to shields or HATs called "Elements," the Alchitry Au

is able to expand its own hardware capabilities by adding prototyping spaces, buttons, LEDs, and

more!

that make prototyping faster and less prone to error. All Qwiic-enabled boards use a common 1mm

pitch, 4-pin JST connector. This reduces the amount of required PCB space, and polarized

connections mean you can’t hook it up wrong.