When talking about Arduino, few people associate it with FPGA. Because the two have nothing in common, to be frank, they are quite the opposite.

Arduino is cheap, easy to learn, and simple to use, but it cannot handle complex computations and large projects.

FPGA is flexible and powerful, easily handling complex computations such as audio and video processing, but it is harder to learn and very expensive.

What would happen if we combined the two? It would be like magic! It would change the game by combining the advantages of Arduino and FPGA while eliminating the disadvantages of both. That’s what we’re presenting to you now: the Spartan Edge Accelerator Board!

The Spartan Edge Accelerator Board is a Xilinx Spartan FPGA development board the size and shape of an Arduino UNO expansion board. It can be used with Arduino as an FPGA expansion board and as a standalone FPGA development board. With the onboard ESP32 chip, the Spartan Edge Accelerator Board also features 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1. Additionally, this development board has rich peripherals and interfaces, offering strong playability. For example, it includes an 8-bit ADC, a 6-axis accelerometer, two RGB LEDs, a MINI HDMI interface, a CSI camera interface, two Grove connectors, and more. In summary, it will be the ideal FPGA board for makers and hobbyists.

FPGA

The Spartan Edge Accelerator Board is built around the Xilinx Spartan-7 XC7S15 FPGA, which is a cost-effective yet powerful FPGA chip. When talking about Arduino FPGA, the first mention is the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000. Compared to the official Arduino MKR Vidor 4000, the Spartan Edge Accelerator Board has similar performance but costs less than half! The Spartan Edge Accelerator Board can run at clock speeds of up to 100MHz and offers 12.8K logic units and 360Kb Block RAM. Driving a camera or HDMI display is a piece of cake. Besides our breakthrough XC7S15’s 10 user-programmable I/O pins, you can configure them as PWM, I2C, I2S, UART, SPI, and more.

ESP32

We know you love ESP32, so we used it for wireless processing. It supports 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi as well as Bluetooth 4.1 with BLE. With just one board, you can give your Arduino FPGA and wireless capabilities, isn’t that great!

Arduino FPGA API

Importantly, even if you know nothing about FPGA theory, we provide a complete Arduino FPGA API to help you use FPGA resources to control the FPGA I/O of the Arduino IDE. The Spartan Edge Accelerator Board will provide Arduino with capabilities that were once unimaginable, such as edge technology, image recognition, signal sampling, and processing.

• FPGA API for Arduino

• Supports Arduino UNO and Seeeduino V4.2 (5V I/O)

• Spartan-7 XC7S15 FPGA with 12.8K logic units and 360Kb Block RAM

• Standalone mode / Arduino Shield mode

• Onboard ESP32 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1 with BLE

• Onboard 8-bit ADC

• Onboard 6-axis accelerometer and gyroscope

• Mini HDMI; CSI Camera Interface (currently only supports OV5640)

• Onboard Grove connector (I2C/D2)

Circuit City has currently established QQ groups in various fields including power, embedded technology, sensor technology, automotive electronics, RF/microwave, motor control, EDA/PCB design, Internet of Things technology, etc. Below are the corresponding QQ group numbers: