BurchEd BED-SPARTAN2+ FPGA Evaluation Board

The BurchEd FPGA Board

This is a really cool board to play with and use. It has a Xilinx SPARTAN-II FPGA in the center of it and a series of 20 pin connectors around the FPGA. It was designed and produced by Tony Burch over at Burch Electronic Design. In the picture above I’ve attached five “plug-on” modules, in clockwise order:

• 128K x 16 RAM module (takes two slots)
• CPU-IO (adds serial, mouse, keyboard, and VGA interfaces)
• SWITCH module (16 dip swiches)
• LED–8 (My own 8 digit LED display module)
• BEDLED two digit LED module (RED digits)

The FPGA itself has 200K “marketing” gate equivalents but frankly it is pretty spacious. See my FPGA journey pages for stuff that I’ve done with this board.

Resources

Updates

January 2013

So as I reconstruct my notebook one of the things I’ve been doing has been to update the links, Tony Burch’s link to BurchEd appears to be dead/non-functional. So I suspect Tony has moved on to other things.