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Nexys Video™ FPGA Board Reference Manual
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Overview
The Nexys Video board is a complete, ready-to-use
digital circuit development platform based on the
latest Artix-7™ Field Programmable Gate Array
(FPGA) from Xilinx®. With its large, high-capacity
FPGA (Xilinx part number XC7A200T-1SBG484C),
generous external memories, high-speed digital video
ports, and 24-bit audio codec, the Nexys Video is
perfectly suited for audio and video processing
applications. Several built-in peripherals, including
Ethernet, USB-UART, and a high bandwidth USB data
transfer protocol expand the connectivity of the
Nexys Video so that it can be cleanly integrated as a
single component of a large system. The Nexys Video
also includes provisions for direct human interaction
with a connector for USB-HID devices, an OLED
display, and a vast assortment of switches, buttons, and LEDs. Lastly, the FMC and Pmod connectors can be used
to add virtually any functionality or connection interface your application demands.
The Artix-7 FPGA is optimized for high performance logic, and offers more capacity, higher performance, and more
resources than earlier designs. Artix-7 200T features include:
• 33,650 logic slices, each with four 6-input LUTs and 8 flip-flops
• Close to 13 Mbits of fast block RAM (3x more than the Nexys 4 DDR)
• Ten clock management tiles, each with phase-locked loop (PLL)
• 740 DSP slices
• Internal clock speeds exceeding 450 MHz
• On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
• Up to 3.75Gbps GTP transceivers
The Nexys Video also offers an improved collection of ports and peripherals, including:
• 8 user switches
• 8 user LEDs
• 128x32 monochrome OLED display
• USB-UART Bridge
• 160-pin FMC LPC connector
• MicroSD card connector
• HDMI Sink and HDMI Source
• DisplayPort Source
• Audio codec w/ four 3.5mm jacks
•
6 user push buttons
•
User EEPROM
•
10/100/1000 Ethernet PHY
• 512MiB 800Mt/s DDR3
• Serial Flash
• Four Pmod ports
• Pmod for XADC signals
• Digilent Adept USB port for
programming and data
• USB HID Host for mice, keyboards,
and USB MSD Host
In addition to being compatible with Xilinx's ISE® toolset, the Nexys Video also works with the new high-
performance Vivado
®
Design Suite. It is supported under the free WebPACK™ license, so designs can be
implemented at no additional cost. This free license now includes the ability to create MicroBlaze™ soft-core
processor designs (in Vivado only), which greatly reduces the time needed to implement complex systems. Design
resources, example projects, device datasheets, and tutorials are available for download at the Nexys Video
Resource Center, reference.digilentinc.com/nexysvideo.