Saturn – Spartan 6 FPGA Development Board with DDR SDRAM

Saturn is an easy to use FPGA Development board featuring Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. Saturn is specially designed for experimenting and learning system design with FPGAs. This development board features Xilinx XC6SLX series FPGA with FTDI’s FT2232H Dual-Channel USB device. The high speed USB 2.0 interface provides fast and easy configuration download to the on-board SPI flash. No programmer or special downloader cable is needed to download the bit stream to the board.

Academic pricing is available for students and faculty.

Applications

• Product Prototype Development
• Development and testing of custom embedded processors
• Signal Processing
• Communication devices development
• Educational tool for Schools and Universities

Board features

• FPGA: Spartan-6 LX45 in CSG324 package (XC6SLX9, LX16 and LX25 available for custom order)
• DDR: 166MHz 512Mb LPDDR
• Flash memory: 128 Mb SPI flash memory
• 100MHz CMOS oscillator
• High Speed USB 2.0 interface for On-board flash programming
• FT2232H Channel A is dedicated for SPI Flash Programming. Channel B can be used for custom applications.
• On-board voltage regulators for single power rail operation
• FPGA configuration via JTAG and USB
• Maximum 158 IOs for user defined purposes
  • XC6SLX9 – 118 IOs
  • XC6SLX16 – 150 IOs
  • XC6SLX25 – 144 IOs
  • XC6SLX45 – 136 IOs
  • FT2232H – 8 IOs