Anyone looking to teach or learn more about digital logic design may be interested in a new open source development board created by 1BitSquared called the iCEBreaker FPGA. Watch the video below to learn more about the open source development board which is available to back fire Cloud Supply from $69 with worldwide shipping expected to take place during July 2019.
“Are you ready to venture into the brave new world of digital logic design? The iCEBreaker FPGA board is specifically designed for you. It works out of the box with the latest open source FPGA development tools and next-generation open CPU architectures. The iCEBreaker is easily expandable through its Pmod connectors, so you can make use of a large selection of third-party Pmod modules, as well as the several new Pmods we’ve specifically designed for it. There’s ample documentation, including well-tested workshop curricula, video tutorials, and datasheets.”
Specifications of the iCEBreaker FPGA open source development board include :
Lattice iCE40UP5k FPGA
– 5280 logic cells (4-LUT + Carry + FF)
– 120 Kbit dual-port block RAM
– 1 Mbit (128 KByte) single-port RAM
– PLL, 2 x SPI, 2 x I2C hard IPs
– Two internal oscillators (10 kHz and 48 MHz) for simple designs
– Eight DSP multiplier blocks for signal processing such as audio synthesis and even software defined radio
– Low power consumption ideal for battery-powered applications
– Three 24 mA drive and 3 x hard IP PWM (can drive RGB LEDs and small motors)
Plentiful, fast storage
– 128 Mbit (16 MB) quad SPI double data rate (QSPI-DDR) flash
– Example: can stream video to LED matrix
Lots of I/O
– Three pins (header) for RGB LED
– Two on-board LEDs
– One UART, RX pin and TX pin accessible via virtual (USB) serial port
– One pushbutton
– Two available Pmod connectors (16 x pins total)
– One breakaway Pmod (8 x pins)
Pre-wired, breakaway Pmod module
– Input and output user accessible and usable in your own hardware design
– Five LEDs in a star pattern
– Three push buttons
Capable enough to host CPU softcores
– picorv32
– picosoc
– RISC-V and others
On-board FPGA programmer and USB-to-serial adapter
– Compatible with IceStorm iceprog tool
– Easy, driverless connection as a serial device to host computer
USB high speed
– On-board FT2232 USB chip
– Up to 480 Mbit/s interface to host computer
Source: Crowd Supply
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