XIPS Technology Limited has created a breadboard friendly FPGA development board for makers and hardware designers, called the FireAnt. Offering a low-cost thumb-sized board which has launched buyer the Crowd Supply website and is now available to preorder from $29 with worldwide shipping expected to take place during September 2019. Free shipping throughout the United States is included and worldwide shipping is available for $8 extra.
“FireAnt is the first third-party development board for the Efinix Trion product family. It provides an easy-to-use development platform for FPGA makers and hobbyists. Powered by the Efinix Trion T8, FireAnt is ready to use with just a PC and no extra components required. The breadboard- friendly design allows for fast application deployment with sensors, peripherals, or other interfaces. It’s the perfect solution for manufacturers to prototype their projects or digital design students to learn FPGA development using the new Efinix platform quickly. The power/performance/size advantages of the Trion T8 FPGA also make it ideal for edge IoT applications.”
Specifications of the FireAnt development board :
Efinix Trion T8 FPGA
– 7384 LE counts
– 8 embedded multipliers
– 1 low-power oscillator
– 1 PLL
– 122.88 kbit internal RAM
– Package size: BGA-81 5×5 mm
Board dimensions: 51.4 x 18.3 mm
Supply voltage: VBUS 5 V | VCC 3.3 V
VCCIO: 3.3 V
Onboard 33.333 MHz crystal oscillator for PLL
GPIOs: 35
LED: 6 (incl. 4 user-configurable LEDs)
Flash: 8 Mbit serial NOR Flash
Programming interface:
– USB 2.0 Hi-Speed(480 Mb/s)
– JTAG (with exposed pin in bottom layer via external JTAG programmer)
Development platform: Efinity Software
Specifications :
Efinix Trion T8 FPGA
– 7384 LE counts
– 8 embedded multipliers
– 1 low-power oscillator
– 1 PLL
– 122.88 kbit internal RAM
– Package size: BGA-81 5×5 mm
Board dimensions: 51.4 x 18.3 mm
Supply voltage: VBUS 5 V | VCC 3.3 V
VCCIO: 3.3 V
Onboard 33.333 MHz crystal oscillator for PLL
GPIOs: 35
LED: 6 (incl. 4 user-configurable LEDs)
Flash: 8 Mbit serial NOR Flash
Programming interface:
– USB 2.0 Hi-Speed(480 Mb/s)
– JTAG (with exposed pin in bottom layer via external JTAG programmer)
Development platform: Efinity Software
Source: Crowd Supply
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