SparkFun Alchitry Ft Element Board

Meet the Alchitry Ft Element Board! Alchitry Elements are expansion boards similar to Arduino shields or Raspberry Pi HATs that work with your Au and Au+ FPGA Development Boards. The Ft Element is equipped with four 50-pin board to board connectors on the underside and top of the board that snap to the Alchitry Au and Au(+) boards. It also adds a USB 3.0 200MB/s high speed interface to your Alchitry board stack via the USB-C connector.

Please note that this board is only functional with the higher end Au & Au+ FPGA Dev boards that feature the Xilinx Artix 7.

Features:

• USB-C connector w/ 200MB/s data rate to board to board connectors
• For use with projects that require data transfer rates greater than standard on board USB to serial 12Mbaud
• 200 Mbps* ~ 191 Mbaud* - Note: this is not exact and depends on how you are using the Dev board in conjunction with the FT element board.

Documents:

• Alchitry Ft Element Schematic (PDF)
• How Does an FPGA Work?
• Programming an FPGA
• Getting Started Guide
• Alchitry Labs
• Project IceStorm
• So You Want to Learn FPGAs...
• FPGA Resource Page
• Alchitry Tutorials
• Alchitry Forums

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