[From fpga development board to fpga product]

Can you advise what is the best way to bring an fpga project to market. For example I have a pmod rangefinder in conjunction with an ADC pmod hooked up to my spartan 6 fpga (Anvyl board) How do I now proceed to build a board with spartan 6 fpga chip, my pmods and several LEDs? My bitfile will no longer work because that was built around the Anvyl board constraints so how do I program a smaller prototype board to do this and where do I find such a board?

[Digilent spartan 3 e development board]

M - I have only just seen your old post and am wondering if you made any progress with your spartan-3 projects or have you moved on? I am using spartan-6 on Digilent's Anvyl board.  I also work with STM32 MCUs, currently the F1 series and nucleo-64 evaluation boards.

[Download Digilent Adept Runtime and Utilities for Linux]

Just to say thanks for leaving the Adept Runtime and Utils for Linux on the Adept Webpage as I am interested in putting Linux os/OpenRISC on my Spartan 6 -- usually this would be on the older Atlys board but I can probably get it working with my Anvyl board.

Post scriptum: I shall migrate to an Arty board within the next couple of years ... or so -- please don't worry about me !

[Where can I find the link to the reference design below?]

Thanks James, I am using Anvyl but I find that examples for Atlys and other older boards can be easily ported.  Glad they are still available to look at.

[Where can I find the link to the reference design below?]

Originally for the Atlys and Genesis boards I believe: The EDK reference design (available on the Digilent website) leverages our custom AC-97 pcore to accomplish several standard audio processing tasks such as recording and playing back audio data.

[Putting Microblaze on to Anvyl]

Hi Everyone !

My background is software, also STM32 bare metal embedded programming in C with a splashing of Libopen-cm3 and FreeRTOS.  I am now investigating what is possible in the world of FPGA.

Is there any board support for the Anvyl in EDK as there is in Adept?  I cannot find it although I also notice that Xilinx continues to support Spartan-6 in general.  Can I, for example, choose a different board in EDK that uses a similar Spartan-6 chip such as the SP601 or SP605 Evaluation Board and tweak the settings?  I would appreciate hearing from members who have experience with this dev board.  Although a bit outdated now it is sufficient for my current purposes.

I also have a question about the design of the board -- why all the capacitors on page 9 of the schematic surrounding the main chip?  Are these all bypass capacitors to reduce noise?  It's a bit of a mystery to me.