Arty A7-100: Artix-7 FPGA Development Board

Hardware

Platform Shakti: Shakti is an open-source initiative by the RISE group at IIT-Madras, which is not only building open source, production grade processors, but also associated components like interconnect fabrics, verification tools, storage controllers, peripheral IPs and SOC tools.

Microcontroller

C-CLASS

Frequency

50MHz

Flash

0B

RAM

128MB

Vendor

Xilinx

Configuration

Please use artix7_100t ID for board option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File):

[env:artix7_100t]
platform = shakti
board = artix7_100t

You can override default Arty A7-100: Artix-7 FPGA Development Board settings per build environment using board_*** option, where *** is a JSON object path from board manifest artix7_100t.json. For example, board_build.mcu, board_build.f_cpu, etc.

[env:artix7_100t]
platform = shakti
board = artix7_100t

; change microcontroller
board_build.mcu = C-Class

; change MCU frequency
board_build.f_cpu = 50000000L

Uploading

Arty A7-100: Artix-7 FPGA Development Board supports the following uploading protocols:

  • ftdi

  • ftdi

  • jlink

  • jlink

Default protocol is ftdi

You can change upload protocol using upload_protocol option:

[env:artix7_100t]
platform = shakti
board = artix7_100t

upload_protocol = ftdi

Debugging

Debugging - “1-click” solution for debugging with a zero configuration.

Warning

You will need to install debug tool drivers depending on your system. Please click on compatible debug tool below for the further instructions and configuration information.

You can switch between debugging Tools & Debug Probes using debug_tool option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File).

Arty A7-100: Artix-7 FPGA Development Board has on-board debug probe and IS READY for debugging. You don’t need to use/buy external debug probe.

Compatible Tools

On-board

Default

FTDI Chip

Yes

Yes

J-LINK

Frameworks

Name

Description

Shakti SDK

A software development kit for developing applications on Shakti class of processors