Tech First Kit-Altium-NanoBoard-3000XN-EVK

Each of Altium's 3000-series NanoBoards is a 242 x 176mm (9.5" x 6.9") six layer printed circuit board (4 x signal, 2 x plane), powered by an external 5 Volt regulated supply. One of the plane layers is used predominantly as a grounding plane (GND, AGND, AUGND, SHIELD), but incorporates split regions to accommodate 1.2V, 1.8V and 2.5V supplies. The other plane is used primarily for 5V and 3.3V supplies. Both top and bottom of the board are used for component placement.

For each variant in the NanoBoard 3000 series, the layout of the motherboard and available resources are the same – all that differs are the physical devices used for the Host (NanoTalk) Controller and the target User FPGA.

The NanoBoard 3000 includes a 12-month subscription to an Altium Designer Soft Design license which is linked to the NanoBoard in the box. This license option provides functionality to quickly start designing FPGA-based embedded systems, including:

• FPGA design entry in C, OpenBus, Schematic, VHDL and Verilog
• VHDL simulation engine, integrated debugger and waveform viewer
• Support for a range of 32-bit soft processors for use in FPGA design
• A rich set of royalty-free IP core libraries including peripherals and
• user-configurable custom logic
• Full software development tool chain with libraries and source code
• Programmable FPGA-based instruments for hardware debug and
• deployment
• Support for importing third-party FPGA IP cores, developing and
• reusing IP libraries

• NanoBoard 3000XN – with fixed Xilinx® Spartan™-3AN device (XC3S1400AN-4FGG676C)
• Integrated color TFT LCD panel (240x320) with touch screen that facilitates dynamic application interaction
• High-quality stereo audio capabilities including: Line in/out/ headphones, audio CODEC with I2S-compatible interface, analogue mixer, audio power amplifier and high-quality speakers (located on a separate speaker board attachment)
• USB hub, providing connection of up to three USB 2.0 devices, with interfacing handled by an ISP1760 i-Speed USB Host Controller
• SVGA interface (24-bit, 80MHz)
• Variety of standard communications interfaces: RS-232 RS-232, RS-485, PS/2, 10/100 Fast Ethernet, USB 2.0, S/PDIF, MIDI
• Dual SD card readers – for use by user FPGA and Host Controller respectively
• IR receiver – supports data transmitted using a 38kHz carrier frequency
• Programmable clock (6 to 200MHz) and fixed clock (20MHz) – both available to user FPGA
• 4-channel 8-bit ADC, SPI-compatible – providing maximum sample rate of 200ksps
• 4-channel 8-bit DAC, SPI-compatible – operating at clock rates of up to 40MHz
• 4x isolated IM Relay channels – each channel providing a 5V nonlatching DPDT relay with one coil
• 4x PWM power drivers
• 8-way general purpose DIP-Switch, 8 RGB LEDs, 5 PDA-style push button switches and a Test/Reset button – all wired directly to theuser FPGA
• User prototyping area
• Dual 18-way (20 pin) I/O expansion headers, with power supply selection links
• On-board memories accessible by user FPGA:              
  • 256KB x 32-bit common-bus SRAM (1MB), 16M x 32-bit common-bus SDRAM (64MB), 8M x 16-bit common-bus 3.0V Page Mode Flash memory (16MB), dual 256KB x 16-bit independent SRAM  512KB each)
• Four 8Mbit SPI flash memory devices – one containing Primary boot image for Host Controller, one containing golden boot image for Host Controller, two for use by user FPGA (for boot/embedded purposes)
• SPI Real-Time Clock with 3V battery backup
• Accommodates a single plug-in peripheral board for additional system flexibility
• Board ID memory – 1-Wire® ID system uniquely identifies the motherboard and any attached Altium peripheral board
• Host (NanoTalk) Controller hosts the NanoBoard firmware. Responsibilities include managing JTAG communications (with Altium Designer/User FPGA/connected peripheral board), as well as access to common-bus SPI resources.
• 5V DC power connector with power switch, plus testpoints for all major supplies on the board (and GND)
• High-speed PC interconnection through USB 2.0 allows for fast downloading and debugging

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