Now that Digilent has deigned to launch a new product, I have an opportunity that I would like to take advantage of. The USB104 A7: Artix-7 FPGA Development Board with SYZYGY-compatible Expansion.
This board allows me to test it for the traininf of DOULOS Essential DSP Implementation Techniques for Xilinx FPGAs ONLINE, for the implementation they use an Artix series 7 DSP, the DSP48 It is what I want to focus on, it is a simple core and easy to understand, seeing the architecture diagram of the new Versal DSP it seems complicated and difficult to implement, Negate and pre-adder is added, also 58 bits Accumulate, more Wide 116-bits XOR in XOR22, XOR34, XOR58 and XOR116, and as if the new additions were not enough, it also has INT8 Vector Dot Product Mode!!
They will definitely have to teach me, I would learn it in a university course or career, specifically for this DSP58, although I would not do it from the beginning, but I can import DSP48 designs to the new Versal, very interesting.
Regarding the new Digilent board, I am interested in having the new Opal Kelly technology connection, the SYZYGY, I have seen it and it has the highest bandwidth, much more than the FMC+, this connector would allow me, for example, to add an AKM ADC 24 bits 96Khz module with balanced Combo XLR/Jack input, to test my design with a condenser microphone or Roland Fantom 07 Synth, I now have many possibilities with this new device. Thank you @JColvin 😄
What I would also like to know is the new Adept 2 control panel, is it complete? what are the differences with Opall Kelly Front Panel? Do I have the ability to use the Adept 2 API within MATLAB or Vivado?
I would like there to be a compatible enclosure for this USB104 A7, because I already found it on Ebay and I am asking for it as I write these lines, so you will already have more info about me.