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Great so far I haven't had much chance to play with it, but it passed the blinky test (with help from the programming guide). I like the right-angled Pmod connectors, the Quad-SPI Flash, and the different options for user interaction (4 buttons, sliding switches, and rgb led's). The usb/jtag connection is very secure to the board and unlike some of the boards I've worked on in the past the layout of the ports allows the board to be placed on a table and be very stable. The rubber feet are a nice touch.

false advertisement It is advertised on Xilinx website that "Artix-7 35T Arty FPGA Evaluation Kit" cost $99 but here its is 30 dollars more expensive. $129 to be precise.



Can someone explain where does this difference comes from?

Good for starter. Good for starter.

Good but documentation could be improved I'm used to the world of microcontrollers and wanted to discover FPGAs. Nice board, but a bit disappointed by the documentation. A few "tutorials" are provided but without much explanations. Able to upload them to the board and do their job, but would have appreciated like a progressive course on FPGAs. Maybe starting from very basic examples, and then building up to more advanced stuff. I wasn't blocked at any point, everything is working fine, but the learning curve is steep coming from the microcontrollers world.

Not worth the cost and poor tools I purchased this board to follow the "Integrating Arm Cortex soft CPU in FPGA's" and was terribly disappointed, despite the fact the online class was well thought out and delivered expertly. After completing the class I realized it is not even worth taking the board out of the box it was delivered in. What a waste of $150. I found the Xilinx tools much too difficult forcing too many steps or clicks with the nonintuitive knowledge to use them. I've used Altera before and found it so much easier. Even though I'm a noob when it comes to Xilinx I can't imagine any situation which Altera products wouldn't be just as good with a short time to market.

Great for working out ideas and designs Picked up the Arty A7-100T in preparation for a project that would be needing a capable mid-range FPGA, Ethernet connectivity and a bit of RAM. Having the Pmod connectors and Arduino shield style connector makes for rapid prototyping.

Insufficient chip for board peripherals. I usually am happy with my Digilent purchases but not this time. The chip chosen for this board does not have enough resources to use all of the included peripherals with a microblaze softcore processor. You will find yourself choosing which components you can live without on your projects if you use the microblaze. I wish I had purchased the Arty-A7 100T version instead.

5 stars for the product, minus ZERO stars for the delivery expenses Product is fine (5stars). The problem was the delivery expenses (zero stars). Initially I thought that the total expenses were 45 dollars (Fedex) delivery that I paid through paypal.

However, when the packet arrived at Greece, another company (Orbit Couriers S.A.) that corporates with Fedex, asked me to pay ~160 Euros in order to perform customs

clearance and bring the package to my home address.

Ridiculously, I paid 350 dollars for a single Arty A7 board (200 euros (~231 dollars) for the shipment plus 119 dollars for the board).

• Arty A7: Artix-7 FPGA Worked as expected

Great board, a lot of fun to work with! Vivado is so much better than ISE. I took a digital circuits class in college and we used the basys 2 board and ISE. I liked the course so much I wanted to get my own FPGA. And arty is the one I decided on and I haven't regretted that decision one bit. Turning it into a web server or a powerful micro-controller has been a blast especially with Vivado HLS. This board has plenty of IO and I can barely use a fraction of the Artix-7 35T can't imagine what I'd do with the 100T.

Great Development Board. Great value for the money. I am able to run Vivado on a MacBook Pro using Fusion running Windows without any problem. No issues programming the ARTY board and the UART works just fine. I just wish the ARTY board had mounting holes on it.

Very nice development board. It is a very good development board, i already developed one optimized Atmel MEGA / XMEGA microprocesor IP on this board, it is free here: https://github.com/MorgothCreator/XMEGA_CORE_IP_V2

Great introductory board Great value for money as an introductory FPGA board - probably more than introductory, but I haven't reached its limit yet.

Works fine with the free Vivado WebPack edition; you aren't limited to a one year license.

Also works fine on Linux.

A USB port (connected to the FPGA, not the one for debugging) would be cool to add.

So awesome I love this product. It's so nice to be able to learn such a powerful piece of software like Vivado and have a nice little development board for only $100. Bravo. I've already gotten a couple friends to buy one.

ARTY is a very good entry point If you are a bit familar with VIVADO or HLS you have a wonderful development platform, that is today (01/2017) more or less exactly doing what you want it to do. The tools are today quick enough (2016.4) and very well working (in contrast to the beginning). Even HLS (C/C++ to VHDL is working pretty fine), Microblaze works like a charm ...

I want to give lessons with ARTY because its cheap. Maybe I will make it a present after the lessons.

Thank you Digilent for providing such useful product!

Anything to enhance? Yes: Increase memory



Thanks a lot!



/Jesko

Not able to get Arty working on my computer. Also get Blue Screen of Death Having significant trouble getting the serial FTDI driver working on my Asus laptop running Windows 10. The Serial port is not recognizing and the Install_Digilent.exe crashes my computer with Blue Screen of death.



I tried it on a desktop computer and it seems to work and is recognized and communicates. It seems to be a computer thing but I need to run Arty on my laptop to be most efficient.

I wish I could have tested this prior to purchasing Arty.

Working well til' now Everything arrived in time. Package was in very good conditions and it didn't have a excessive size. Now, the product itself hasn't shown any problems yet, everything seems to be fine. Very portable and practical, since you only need and PC, VIvado on it, and your phone's cable to start using. Maybe more documentation will be needed in the future, but this is an awesome product.

Great Kit for the price This kit is unbeatable for the price. A very good entry level product to get people involved with FPGA prototype development. The main pull here is the access to Vivado and the SDK for MicroBlaze CPU, which are generally excellent tools.

Doesn't take long before you can have your own simple design up and running (flashing some LEDs), or to run and modify one their existing designs.

One minor groan was that the out of the box demo that you have access to and then modify, wouldn't actually work initially without modifying the schematics (need to delete a port) which seems strange.

I bought a much more capable high-end Virtex-Ultrascale board for my company ($600k) but you really can't go wrong with this $99 board for home use to try out some simple ideas, play with the tools etc. Especially considering the Vivado SW is exactly the same (albeit locked to this board).

Well worth it.

The best tool for beginners and advanced users FPGA boards are generally expensive which puts most people off from getting started. With the Arty board, the value for money is remarkable and the one year licence for Vivado is just the icing on the cake. The arduino form factor means that you can use existing shields and protoboards with the arty to expand your project and the onboard ethernet along with support for microblaze means that you can implement connected and IoT applications easily and quickly.

The only caveat is the absence of simple peripherals like a accelerometer or light sensor etc which can be beneficial when testing simple things out.

Beyond the above stated, the Arty board is well worth the small cost and can cater to teachers and students on a budget.