Digilent Basys 3 Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board: Recommended for Introductory Users

I was looking for a xilinx based board to do some testing with and bought this one. It's smaller than I thought, but is high quality. The manual from digilant is great and the info on what pins the peripherals are connected to is readily available. Overall a really good board to get to learn FPGA .

I've been out of college for a good while now and haven't worked with FPGAs since. I'm looking to change the direction of my career which may involve current knowledge of FPGAs so I purchased this board to refamiliarise myself.

Good price

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Being a professional software engineer for 3 decades, having experience with CPLD design in the 90s, I recently revived my interested in building circuit boards, soldering, and updating my hardware knowledge. Just for fun.I found digital design with Verilog and VHDL a steep learning curve. Hardware is inherently parallel, and understanding the application of VHDL for FPGA design is different from traditional programming languages, even though the syntax may look similar.This board has all the features I require to get me started on the practical tutorials. Simple to use, well documented, lots of I/O on board and the 7 segment display for more advanced output - all help to get an exampled design up an going. The Artix-7 is quite capable compared to other boards using Spartan 3s. The only negatives are:1) the VGA output instead of a modern digital graphics output port. Getting the output to work with any modern LCD display required buying and testing quite a few VGA to HDMI converter cables to provide a decent display.2) lack of general RAM for use by soft microprocessor cores (e.g the MicroBalze or RISC-V)For more practical designs I will use the Sparkfun Alchitry Au boards or the Diligent Arty Z7 (which is on a $100 off sale right now).However, paired with VHDL BY EXAMPLE by Blaine Readler I am having a lot of fun.

The package came with just the board. It did not include a cable or anything else as I anticipated.

I had to purchase one of these for my logic design course at my college and I love it. It was very easy to setup and use and really helped me learn!

The board came 3 days later than expected and doesn’t work. I’ve tried powering it on using Both the hdmi and the USB source. Contacted the seller about this but no response yet.