Papilio Pro - Spartan 6 FPGA Dev Board with SDRAM

Have you been thinking about jumping into FPGA development but are not sure how to get started? Well, take a look at the Papilio - an Open Source FPGA board with everything you need to get started at a low price. With a friendly and supportive community, free VHDL eBook, Open Source Arduino compatible Soft Processors, and plenty of code examples you will have all the resources needed to get you started on the FPGA path. It's never been easier to jump into the wide-open world of FPGA development!

The Papilio Pro is a powerful, open-source, expandable development board perfect for the design and prototyping of your unique ideas.  You can customize the capabilities of the Papilio with snap-on modular expansions called Wings (similar to Arduino shields) which provide added functionality to the board, and simultaneously expand the creative possibilities!

As the most powerful development board in Papilio series, Papilio Pro is based on Xilinx Spartan 6 LX FPGA. It offers exciting new features over the Papilio One, including 64Mb SDRAM, 64K Block SRAM, DSP Slices, Clock Management Tile, Multi-Boot,  and an efficient switching power supply.

At its heart, the Papilio Pro has a Xilinx Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA chip, providing a plentiful amount of digital logic to quickly get your prototyping off the ground.  In addition, you can code for the FPGA using established development tools, or you can use Gadget Factory's custom Arduino IDE to easily write Arduino code and upload it to the AVR8 soft processor!

Papilio Pro Features

• Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA (Datasheet)
• High efficiency LTC3419 Step Down Dual Voltage Regulator (Datasheet)
• Dual Channel FTDI FT2232 USB 2.0 Full Speed Interface (Datasheet)
• 64Mbit Micron MT48LC4M16 SDRAM (Datasheet)
• 64Mbit Macronix MX25L6445 SPI Flash (Datasheet)
• 48 I/O pins arranged in a Papilio Wing form factor
• 32Mhz Crystal Oscillator