{"id":7312,"date":"2015-06-29T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=7312"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:16:33","slug":"nexys-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/nexys-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nexys Video Has Launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have surmised from <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/new-nexys-video-on-youtube\/\">Jesse&#8217;s post earlier<\/a>, we have a new product, the fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,1475&amp;Prod=NEXYS-VIDEO\">Nexys Video<\/a>! To learn more, I talked to Sam Bobrowicz, one of the people at Digilent who worked very hard to get this product released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLfXhdxs_Yk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Why is the Nexys Video so amazing? Well, if you love audio and visual applications &#8212; and who doesn&#8217;t? &#8212; then this is perfect.\u00a0The Nexys Video is a descendant of both\u00a0the Atlys board and the Nexys line, but the Nexys Video has updated peripherals and a new Xilinx 7-series FPGA. This allows the use of Vivado (though it is still compatible with ISE). Additionally, it includes a display port output, which makes for higher resolution videos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8135\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8135\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys_Video_Sam_Bobrowicz-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sam showing the Atlys board and the Nexys Video.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys_Video_Sam_Bobrowicz-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys_Video_Sam_Bobrowicz-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys_Video_Sam_Bobrowicz-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys_Video_Sam_Bobrowicz-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys_Video_Sam_Bobrowicz-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam showing the Atlys board and the Nexys Video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nexys Video is perfect for AV applications and\u00a0video processing pipelines. It&#8217;s also ideal for more complex research projects (it does require more programming experience than the Nexys 4 DDR). It&#8217;s definitely a great MicroBlaze softcore target. Besides, MicroBlaze in Vivado is free to use for students! Some other applications that would work well are tracking and real-time facial identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The board had its challenges getting to wear it is today &#8212; it originally had a Spartan core, and then it became clear the board would be more powerful with the Artix-7 FPGA. \u00a0In the first run of the board, there wasn&#8217;t a hole in the board to allow the addition of the OLED. Additionally, a heat sink had to be added in order to prevent overheating. Obviously, all of these concerns were addressed and the board is now ready for use!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,1475&amp;Prod=NEXYS-VIDEO\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8136\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys-Video-obl-600-600x508.png\" alt=\"Nexys Video-obl-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys-Video-obl-600.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nexys-Video-obl-600-225x191.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nexys Video is available for purchase from $499 (and $299 for students!) <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,1475&amp;Prod=NEXYS-VIDEO\">on the Digilent site<\/a>. 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