Are the XS Boards only suitable for simple logic designs?
No! Our XSA-3S1000 Board contains a Spartan3 FPGA with 1,000,000 gates of logic and a 32 MByte SDRAM. Even our smallest XSA-50 Board has a 50,000-gate SpartanII FPGA and 8 MB of SDRAM. These FPGAs have more than enough room to hold a complete microcontroller core along with custom application circuitry. Take a look at the design examples from XESS and our customers to get an idea of the complexity of designs supported by these boards. The XSA Boards can also be inserted into our XSTend 2.1 Board to provide additional LEDs, buttons, SRAM, RS232 port, and a stereo codec for processing audio signals. A prototyping area lets you connect external circuitry to the XSA Board. For designs that require advanced audio and video processing along with networking capabilities, our XSB-300E Board is a perfect match! It uses the SpartanIIE FPGA with 300,000 system gates and has multi-channel audio and video codecs along with a 10/100 Ethernet interface.
