Developing your first FPGA project

In this section, we will develop and implement a simple but complete project using a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA device installed on a Digilent Arty A7 development board. This board comes in two variants, a lower-cost version (US $129) with a model number ending in-35T and a more capable, but more costly, version (US $249) with a model number ending in -100T. The only difference between the two boards is the model of the Artix-7 FPGA installed on the board. As you would expect, the -35T has fewer resources available than the -100T.

You can use either the -35T or the -100T variant for this project. The only difference in the development process is specifying the correct board model whenever the need arises. However, in later chapters, the -100T variant will be required due to the resource requirements of the example digital oscilloscope project design, so the more capable board is recommended.

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