This is a small (94x51 mm) standalone FPGA board for education, research and general purpose, with a full featured selection of chips, which I wanted on a low-cost PCB, but haven't found on the market. It's open source and open hardware, because if it is good for our development of f32c SOC, it should be also good for other projects.ULX3S will carry all digital logic on our research, education and makerspace projects in next 5 years.
- ULX3S is standalone embeddable gadget with onboard display, buttons, storage, WiFi and compatible connectors.
- ULX3S can self-reflash with a bitstream sent remotely from web interface over WiFi or from SD card browsed by onboard OLED display and buttons.
- ULX3S can completely power down and wakeup from battery backed RTC.
- ULX3S has rich range of chips and connectivity required for many other open source projects: SDRAM, USB, PS/2, SDCARD, HDMI, FLASH, RTC, I2C, OLED, AUDIO, ADC, onboard FM/ASK antenna 88-433.92
Features
- FPGA: Lattice ECP5 LFE5U-85F-6BG381C (85K LUT)
- USB: FTDI FT231XS (300kbit JTAG and 3Mbit USB-serial)
- GPIO: 56 pins (28 differential pairs), PMOD-friendly
- RAM: 32MB SDRAM MT48LC16M16
- Flash: 4MB Quad-SPI Flash IS25LP032D for FPGA config
- Storage: Micro-SD slot
- LEDs: 11 (8 blink-LEDs, 2 USB LEDs, 1 WiFi LED)
- Buttons: 7 (4 direction, 2 fire, 1 power button)
- Audio: 3.5 mm jack with 4 contacts (analog stereo + digital audio or composite video)
- Video: GPDI connector with 3.3V-5V I2C bidirectional level shifter
- Display: placeholder for 0.96" SPI COLOR OLED
- WiFi+bluetooth: placeholder for ESP-32 (Standalone JTAG web interface over WiFi)
- ADC: 8 channels, 12 bit, 1 MSa/s MAX11125
- Power: 3 Switching voltage regulators: 1.1V, 2.5V, 3.3V
- Clock: 25 MHz onboard, external differential clock input
- Low power sleep: RTC clock wakeup, power button, 32768 Hz quartz and battery
GPDI is General Purpose Differential Interface, Electrically LVDS, mostly TMDS tolerant female receptacle more-or-less compatible with digital monitors/TVs.
Some thing thins board can do:
ULX3S can be programed from arduin
ULX3S has web interface
ULX3S can do retro
Or you can run Amiga
ULX3S can even run linux
https://twitter.com/fpga_dave/status/1053290842809683968
Build instructionsFor DIY boards check here
https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/emard/ulx3s/
With some effort it is possible, check
http://www.lemilica.com/doing-ulx3st-fpga-board-home/
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