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Electronics => FPGA => Topic started by: ezalys on December 02, 2021, 04:38:01 pm

Title: LVDS FPGA on carrier
Post by: ezalys on December 02, 2021, 04:38:01 pm

Does anyone know of a relatively inexpensive (<$150 USD) FPGA board meant to be socketed into a larger board that has the LVDS pins broken out? The CMODs from Digilent would be ideal if they had diff pair routing and the banks were powered appropriately. I would be happy with any mid-range FPGA — Spartan-7, Artix-7, or ECP5. I want to design a board with a high speed DAC and ADC but would rather avoid the task of doing layout and soldering for such a complex device.

Title: Re: LVDS FPGA on carrier
Post by: asmi on December 02, 2021, 04:49:34 pm

These are the only ones I know of which I would trust enough to actually put in a product:
https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/en/Products/Trenz-Electronic/TE07XX-Artix-7/
But I would design my own board, as I've done this enough times so it's not a big deal for me. This complexity is overrated, in reality it's rather simple. I'd say laying out say iMX6 boards is more complex than any 7 series FPGA.

Title: Re: LVDS FPGA on carrier
Post by: SiliconWizard on December 02, 2021, 06:08:38 pm

I second the Trenz boards in that price range.