Arty Party- Get a Look at our Arty Line-Up!

Why Arty?

Our Arty line of products are ready-to-use development platforms designed around Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and All Programmable System on Chip (APSoC) devices from Xilinx. Arty products are incredibly flexible processing platforms, capable of adapting to whatever your project requires. Unlike other single board computers, like Arduino, BeagleBone, Raspberry Pi etc, Arty isn’t bound to a single set of processing peripherals. For example: One moment it’s a communication powerhouse chock-full of UARTs, SPIs, IICs, and an Ethernet MAC, the next it’s a meticulous timekeeper with a dozen 32-bit timers, and then it can be configured to monitor voltage and power rails. Additionally, with the universally popular expansion headers (Arduino™ R3 Headers and our Pmod™ headers), our Arty products will become the most adaptable tool in your project tool box.

What makes an Arty an Arty?

In addition to the stand-out, white PCB, there are several features that make an Arty Board recognizable.

1. White PCB
2. At least 2 Pmod Ports – (the Arty Z7 has replaced 2 of the Pmod Ports with HDMI in and HDMI Out)
3. Dual Row Arduino/ chipKIT Expansion
4. On board programming over USB
5. Four buttons
6. Four LEDs
7. 2 RGB LEDs
8. 2-4 Switches
9. USB Power switchable with a 7-15V Barrel Jack Adapter
10. A USB-UART Bridge
11. qSPI boot option

What’s with the naming?

You may have notice that all of our newer board names have a bit of a pattern to them. We will cover this in a future blog post, but that name is a bit of a decoding ring.

If you are familiar with Xilinx’s portfolio, you will be able to navigate our naming convention with no issue.

Let’s compare!

The entire Arty Family currently has 3 distinct products within, each with a variant option.

	Arty S7-25	Arty S7-50	Arty A7 (original Arty)	Arty A7-100	Arty Z7-10	Arty Z7-20
Price	TBD	$109	$99	TBD	$149	$209
Partner	Xilinx	Xilinx	Xilinx	Xilinx	Xilinx	Xilinx
Device Family	Spartan-7	Spartan-7	Artix-7	Artix-7	Zynq	Zynq
Device Type	FPGA	FPGA	FPGA	FPGA	APSoC (FPGA + processor)	APSoC (FPGA + processor)
Part Number	XC7S25-CSGA324	XC7S50-CSGA324	XC7A35RICSG324-1L	XC7A100T	XC7Z010-1GLG400C	XC7Z020-1CLG400C
FPGA Specs:
Logic Cells	23,360	52,150	32,280	101,440	28,000	85,000
Kbits fast block RAM	1,620	2,700	1,800	4,860	2,100	4,900
Clock Management Tiles	3	5	5	6	2	4
DSP Slices	80	120	90	240	80	220
On-chip ADC	0 @ 1 MSPS	1 @ 1 MSPS	1 @ 1 MSPS	1 @ 1 MSPS	2 @ 1 MSPS	2 @ 1 MSPS
Programmable over QSPI	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Processor Specs:
Speed	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	650 MHz	866 MHz
Memory Controllers	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	DDR3, 8 DMA and 4 AXI3 Slave Ports	DDR3, 8 DMA and 4 AXI3 Slave Ports
High-Bandwidth Peripherals	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1G Ethernet, USB 2.0, SDIO	1G Ethernet, USB 2.0, SDIO
Low-Bandwidth Peripherals	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	SPI, UART, CAN, I2C	SPI, UART, CAN, I2C
System Features:
Memory	254 MB @ 650 MHz DDR3 and 128 MB Flash	255 MB @ 650 MHz DDR3 and 128 MB Flash	256 MB @ 667 MHz DDR3 and 16 MB Flash	256 MB @ 667 MHz DDR3 and 16 MB Flash	512 MB @ 1050 Mhz DDR3 and 16 MB Flash	512 MB @ 1050 Mhz DDR3 and 16 MB Flash
Programming Circuitry	On-board USB-JTAG	On-board USB-JTAG	On-board USB-JTAG	On-board USB-JTAG	On-board USB-JTAG	On-board USB-JTAG
Power	USB or 7V-15V external power	USB or 7V-15V external power	USB or 7V-15V external power	USB or 7V-15V external power	USB or 7V-15V external power	USB or 7V-15V external power
System Connectivity:
Ethernet	n/a	n/a	10/100 Mbps	10/100 Mbps	1Gbit	1Gbit
USB-UART Bridge	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
USB	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Host only	Host only
Interaction & Sensory Devices:
Buttons	4	4	4	4	4	4
Switches	4	4	4	4	2	2
Reset Button(s)	2	2	1	1	2	2
LEDs	4	4	4	4	4	4
RGB LEDs	2	2	4	4	4	4
Audio	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	PWM	PWM
Expansion Connectors:
Pmod Connectors	4	4	4	4	2	2
Arduino™/chipKIT Connectors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HDMI	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Source & Sink	Source & Sink

If you’d like to learn more about the Arty Family, you can go and see the Arty web page: https://digilent.com/shop/arty or if you missed our Instagram Live session, you can re-watch it on Facebook!

What do you think about our Arty family? Let us know in the comments!

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