Transcript Nexys Board

Embedded Systems.
Learning by Doing
North University of Baia Mare
October 3, 2006
Our Vision
“To be the leading innovator of
engineering design and education technologies.”
Our Education Mission
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To give students economical access to design hardware and
software.
To enable students to easily build complex, challenging designs.
To enable self-paced learning anytime, anywhere.
To help instructors incorporate Digilent products into a practical
curriculum.
To provide free online materials including instructional videos,
tutorials, reference designs, textbooks, and exercises.
Our Product Mission
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To provide high-quality low-cost design and manufacturing
services to our OEM customers.
To use state-of-the-art engineering design technologies.
To establish world-wide sales and distribution channels.
To develop OEM relationships with leading semiconductor
manufacturers.
Digilent Highlights
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Founded in 2000 by Washington
State University professors
18 employees at Pullman,
Washington headquarters
Newest design office in ClujNapoca, Romania
Manufacturing in Taiwan
Starting operations in China
More than 100,000 boards sold
$2.7 million in sales in 2005
Some of Our Industrial Customers
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Agilent Technologies
AMI Semiconductor, Inc.
BAE Systems
Ball Aerospace
BWXT Pantex, LLC
Chip Implementation Center
Computer Recognition Systems Ltd
ComScire - Quantum World Corp
Cyprus Microsystems
Data Recovery Services
Emulation Technology
Embedded Flight Systems, Inc
Fujikura Asia Limited
G. DeVries Software Consulting
GE Global Research Center
Goodrich Corporation
GST/E-Systems
Hewlett-Packard Company
Intel
Intercon Industries Inc
Inverse Engineering Corporation
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Irvine Sensors CorpJet Propulsion Lab
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lucidyne Technologies, Inc.
Maryland Procurement Office – DOD
Matsushita Avionics Systems Corp
Maxim Integrated Products
Medtronic Microelectronics Center
Miltech Electronics
NASA/LARC
National Instruments
National Semiconductors
Philips Innovative Applications
Park Air Systems
Philips Semiconductors
Philips Ultrasound
PICTRONIX – UK
Precision Wave Corporation
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Raytheon Missile Systems
Robotic Surgical Tech, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratories
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Sanyo Semiconductor
Siemens VDO Automotive
Siliconmobius
Smiths Aerospace, Inc.
Sonic Manufacturing Technologies
South Dakota School of Mines &
Technology
St. Jude's Medical
ST Microelectronics
Striker Systems
Tektronix
Tokyo Electron Device Limited
TransOptiX, Inc.
Ultradense, Inc.
VDC Display Systems
Winter Electro-Optics
Wytec Company
Xerox Corporation
Xilinx
Ziatech/Performance Technologies
Some of Our Education Customers
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Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Baylor University
Bournemouth University
Brigham Young University
California Polytechnic State University
Central Michigan University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
College of Aeronautical Engineering
Denmark Technical University
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Liverpool John Moore’s University
Michigan State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oakland University
Oregon Institute of Technology
Penn State College of Medicine
Pennsylvania College of Technology
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Princeton University
Queen Mary, University of London
Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden
San Jose State University
Stanford
SUNY (Various Locations)
Texas A & M University
United States Air Force Academy
University of California Long Beach
University of Edinburgh
University of Hong Kong
University of Southern California
University of Washington
HK Institute of Vocational Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Yale University
Engineering Education
Two Different Approaches
The Usual Approach:
Learning by Listening
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Go to lectures
Read the textbook
Do the homework
Go to the lab
Take the exam
Our Approach: Learning By Doing
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Students learn by doing
Assignments feature actual design work
Students can work with their own boards anytime
Students go to labs primarily for assistance
Students can easily test their designs
What are the Benefits of the
Digilent Approach?
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Faster Learning
Students can quickly verify their designs.
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Low Cost Boards
Students can have their own boards for the price of a textbook.
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Easier Instruction
Instructors have access to prepared labs and assignments.
Products & Services
Our First Product:
The Digilab Board
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Designed
specifically for
entry-level
students
Distributed by
XUP (Xilinx
University
Program)
Our Latest Products
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Circuit Boards
Basys
Nexys
Spartan 3E Starter Board
Virtex 2 Pro
Cerebot
Robot Platform
Peripheral modules (Pmods)
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Software
Adept Suite
Digilent AVR Programmer
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Teaching Materials
Textbooks, lab projects, and reference designs
Nexys Board
Power System
USB, 2.1mm jack,
or battery driving
3.3V, 2.5V, &
1.2V switching
regulators
Platform
Flash
Config.
ROM
Hirose FX2
100-pin
expansion
connector
16 Mbytes
Flash ROM
16 Mbytes
RAM
JTAG
Xilinx Spartan3 XC3SXXX-FT256
(200, 400, and 1000 versions available)
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8 LEDs
Osc
(50MHz)
4 pushbuttons
8 slide 4 7-seg. 6-pin
switches displays headers
D
FEATURES
• 200K-gate Xilinx XC3S200 FPGA with 500+MHz operation (400K and 1M gate versions available)
• USB2 port for FPGA configuration and high-speed data transfers (software included)
• USB-powered (batteries and/or wall-plug can also be used)
• 16MB of fast Micron PSDRAM and 16MB of Intel StrataFlash Flash ROM
• Xilinx Platform Flash ROM
• High efficiency switching power supplies (good for battery powered applications)
• User-settable oscillator frequency (25, 50, and 100MHz), plus a socket for a second oscillator
• Connector for 1/8 VGA hi-res graphics LCD panel, 12-bit VGA, or 16x2 character LCD display
• 60 FPGA I/O’s routed to expansion connectors (one high-speed Hirose FX2 connector and four 6-pin
headers)
• 8 LEDs, 4-digit seven-segment display, 4 pushbuttons, 8 slide switches
• Ships with power supply, USB and JTAG3 cables in a convenient plastic carry case
Basys Board
3.3VDC
regulator
5-12VDC
2.5VDC
regulator
6-pin headers
Clock Platform
(100,
Flash For A/D & D/A converters,
motor drivers, etc.
50, or
(config
JA
JB
JC
JD
25 MHz) ROM)
JTAG
Power
jack
1.2VDC
regulator
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Xilinx Spartan3E-100 TQ100
Featuring 4 18-bit multipliers and 9Kbytes of Block RAM
VGA
Port
8 LEDs
4 buttons
4 7-seg.
displays
8 switches
PS2
Port
FEATURES
•100K-gate Xilinx Spartan3E
•JTAG programming port (programming cable included)
•XCF02S Platform Flash ROM
•User-settable oscillator frequency (25, 50, and 100MHz), plus a socket for a second oscillator
•8 LEDs, 4-digit seven-segment display, 4 pushbuttons, 8 slide switches, PS/2 port, and a 3-bit VGA port
•Four 6-pin headers for user I/Os, and attaching Digilent breadboard or PMOD accessory circuit boards
•Ships with power supply, USB and JTAG3 cables in a convenient plastic carry case
Future Products
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Robotics platform
Software
Test equipment
Peripheral modules
Reference designs
Online education materials
Our Engineering Services
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PCB design, layout and manufacturing
PC applications software and reference designs
PC interface DLLs and drivers
Microcontroller firmware
Board test fixtures, software and firmware
Educational materials and application notes
VHDL reference designs
EDK reference designs
Microcontroller reference designs
Configuration and software development
Our OEM Relationships
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Xilinx
NuHorizons (electronics distributor)
National Instruments
Freescale
Cypress Semiconductor
Linear Technology
JoeScan Technologies
Mohr Engineering
Plans for the Future
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Enhancing educational materials and reference
designs
Enhancing online technical support
Increasing our engineering capability using our
Romanian subsidiary
Expanding manufacturing and distribution using
our Taiwanese and Chinese offices