Breadboard’s super-tiny form-factor makes it easy to embed into a small project

The Digilent Cmod A7 is a small, breadboard friendly, 48-pin DIP form factor board built around a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. The device is available now from Digi-Key. The board also includes a USB-JTAG programming circuit, USB-UART bridge, clock source, Pmod host connector, SRAM, quad-SPI Flash, and basic I/O devices. These components make it a formidable, albeit compact, platform for digital logic circuits and MicroBlaze embedded, soft-core processor designs using Xilinx's development software, Vivado. There are 44 digital FPGA I/O signals and two FPGA analog inputs that are routed to 100-mil-spaced, through-hole pins so that the user can integrate their programmable logic design directly into a solderless breadboard circuit. At just 0.7” by 2.75”, it can also be loaded in a standard socket and used in embedded systems.