Mimas - Low Cost Spartan 6 FPGA Development Board

Product Reviews

Best product available worldwide for Students!

Posted by Subha Sarkar

I searched for a lot of other websites for FPGAs and my search stopped here. I have purchased 2 spartan-6 boards which I could easily afford. Build quality is very good ! The product does not need expensive XILINX downloader. I loved that !
Nice low cost product

Posted by Jean-Paul PETILLON

1) Shipped faster than announced despite the lowest cost option I selected
2) Visual inspection is OK
3) Tested the 3 modules as soon as received: they work well all three
I like this FPGA module!
A practical FPGA Board

Posted by Mehmet GOK

A practical FPGA board at a great price. Thank you.
Excellent cheap FPGA board

Posted by Marc Pignat

A spartan6 board for the price of a spartan3 board.
Small, cheap, supported by the free Xilinx ISE Webpack.

I can only recommend it!

Product Description

Mimas is an easy to use FPGA Development board featuring Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. Mimas is specially designed for experimenting and learning system design with FPGAs. This development board features Xilinx XC6SLX9 TQG144 FPGA with maximum 70 user IOs. The USB 2.0 interface provides fast and easy configuration download to the on-board SPI flash. You don’t need a programmer or special downloader cable to download the bit stream to the board.

Applications

Product Prototype Development
Signal Processing
Wired and Wireless Communications
Educational tool for schools and universities

Board features

FPGA: Spartan-6 XC6SLX9 in TQG144 package
Flash memory: 16 Mb SPI flash memory (M25P16)
100MHz CMOS oscillator
USB 2.0 interface for On-board flash programming
FPGA configuration via JTAG and USB
8 LEDs and four switches for user defined purposes
70 IOs for user defined purposes
On-board voltage regulators for single power rail operation