Datasheet

Purchasing Options
The board is sold standalone, but requires either a micro USB cable or 7-15V external power
supply to be powered. The external power supply must have a coaxial, center-positive connector
with 2.1 mm or 2.5 mm internal diameter. When purchased from Digilent, a micro USB cable or
suitable 12V, 3A power supply can added at the time of purchase.
You may see the Arty S7 referred to as the Arty S7-50 throughout some Digilent documentation.
This is to distinguish it from future variants of the Arty S7 that will be loaded with different versions
of the Spartan-7. These variants are not available yet.
Software Support
The Arty S7 is fully compatible with the 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 includes the ability to create MicroBlaze™ soft-core processor designs, the Logic
Analyzer, and High-level Synthesis (HLS). The Logic Analyzer assists with debugging logic, and
the HLS tool allows you to compile C code directly into HDL. Design resources, example projects,
and tutorials are available for download at the Arty S7 Resource Center.
Designing with Microblaze
What makes the Arty S7 so flexible is its FPGA. Among their many features, FPGAs have the
ability to transform into a custom software-defined System-on-a-Chip (SoC). These “Soft SoC”
FPGA configurations are designed graphically using a tool called Vivado IP Integrator (Vivado IPI).
In this tool, pre-built peripheral blocks are dragged from an extensive library and dropped into your
processing system as you see fit. These pre-built peripherals include timers, UART/SPI/IIC
controllers, and many of the other devices you would typically find in an SoC or microcontroller.
Ambitious users will also find that they can create their own peripheral blocks by writing them in a