The $99 ARTY Evaluation Kit is an developers platform for prototyping designs based on Xilinx’s low-power Artix-7 FPGA family. The board includes headers for Arduino and chipKIT connectors as well as four Digilent Pmod-compatible headers.

Included in the kit price is the Vivado design suite (with one year of updates and support) and a reference design featuring MicroBlaze and FreeRTOS Webserver. The ARTY kit features a Xilinx MicroBlaze processor which can be programmed for virtually any processor use case.

Key Features of the ARTY dev board:

• Artix-7 A35T –L1 Low-Power FPGA
• 256Mbytes of DDR3-1066 SDRAM (16-bit interface)
• Arduino Shield Expansion Port
• Four Digilent Pmod connectors
• 10/100 Ethernet Port
• USB-UART
• Four user sliders
• Four pushbuttons
• Four monochrome LEDs

The kit contains:

• An ARTY Evaluation Board
• Voucher code for Vivado® Design Suite: Design Edition
(Node & device-locked to the Artix-7 XC7A35T FPGA, with 1 year of updates and support)
• Reference Design featuring MicroBlaze and FreeRTOS Webserver

The board is stocked by Digilent and Avnet.