{"id":2716,"date":"2014-09-19T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:46:44","slug":"announcing-the-basys3-our-newest-fpga-education-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/announcing-the-basys3-our-newest-fpga-education-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Basys3&#8211;Our Newest FPGA Education Board!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past month, we have been busily working on the launch of our newest educational board, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/basys3\">Basys3<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2741\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2741\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Basys3-new-board-600x317.jpg\" alt=\"The newest member of the Basys family!\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Basys3-new-board-600x317.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Basys3-new-board-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Basys3-new-board-225x119.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Basys3-new-board.jpg 1463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest member of the Basys family!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We took all of the things that people loved about the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,790&amp;Prod=BASYS2\">Basys2,<\/a> \u00a0and updated it to a modern FPGA and tool-chain architecture. Check out our release video here!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jE5Y349WD1E?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see\u00a0the differences between the Basys2 and the Basys3 on the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reference.blog.digilentinc.com\/basys3:basys3#what_is_the_difference_between_the_basys_2_and_the_basys_3\">Digilent Wiki Page for the Basys3<\/a>. The most notable difference is how the Basys3 was designed to work seamlessly with Xilinx&#8217;s latest development tool chain, Vivado.\u00a0Upon checkout, you can purchase a voucher for the full license of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xilinx.com\/products\/design-tools\/vivado\/\">Vivado Design Edition<\/a> ($2995 value) for $10.00.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doulos.com\/images\/logos\/vivado_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doulos.com\/images\/logos\/vivado_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Basys3 has a lot of new features and benefits, but my personal favorite is the demo project we&#8217;ve created to go along with this board.\u00a0The demo project\/tutorial is a binary calculator that will display on the seven-segment display.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6_GxkslqbcU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tutorial is helpful for people who want to learn about Vivado&#8217;s new design environment, but it also highlights all of the hardware improvements that we&#8217;ve made on the Basys3. And for those of you who would like some more basic tutorials that explain how to use\u00a0the Basys3 and Vivado using Verilog, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/EE214\/\">these projects<\/a>\u00a0that we have posted on Instructables!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are very excited to see what people will come up with when using\u00a0this board; between the very powerful Artix-7 FPGA, the Vivado design environment, and the hardware improvements, the innovative avenues are practically limitless!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2742\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2742\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3-600x487.jpg\" alt=\"When you get your Basys3, you should try out our demo project!\" width=\"600\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3-600x488.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3-225x182.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3-800x650.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3.jpg 1236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basys3 is available for sale!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-2716 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='2716' data-nonce='1c819b3974' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-2716 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-2716 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='2716' data-nonce='1c819b3974' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-2716 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-2716 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past month, we have been busily working on the launch of our newest educational board, the Basys3!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1554],"tags":[1662],"ppma_author":[4470],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fpga","category-news","tag-fpga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unboxing-basys3.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4470,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"larissa","display_name":"Larissa Swanland","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f61b3eec23600758fbff3f5d93b1747629d804ba07aa739844b484018ff6786?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}