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Digilent's Zynq Flash Sale: All Zynq Based Development Board

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Digilent is hosting their Zynq Flash Sale and offering all Zynq Based Development Board for 40% Off on sale listed below. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member TheIceDragon for finding this deal

Note, prices are marked on the product page.

You may earn an additional 15% Off if you sign up for their text subscription (typically a pop-up should appear to participate)

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Cora Z7: Zynq-7000 Single Core for ARM/FPGA SoC Development $89.40
Arty Z7: Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board (Arty Z7-10) $149.40
Arty Z7: Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board (Arty Z7-20) $179.40
Zybo Z7: Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board (Zybo Z7-10) $179.40
Zybo Z7: Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board (Zybo Z7-20) $239.40
PYNQ-Z1: Python Productivity for Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC (PYNQ-Z1) $179.40
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This offer is part of Digilent's Zynq 40% Off Flash Sale
Ensure that you select your choice of development board options before adding to cart
Most Zynq Based Development Boards are ready to use embedded software and digital circuit development board
Offer valid through November 18, 2023 or while pricing/supplies last

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40% off sale on Sale on Zynq-based Development Boards

https://digilent.com/shop/zynq-sale/

Additional 15% stackable coupon available upon text subscription for net 49% off.

Products with Discounted 40% off price ranges

Zybo Z7: Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board ($179 - $239)
PYNQ-Z1: Python Productivity for Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC ($179 - $219)
ZedBoard Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board ($353)
Arty Z7: Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board ($149 - $179)
Cora Z7: Zynq-7000 Single Core for ARM/FPGA SoC Development ($89)
Eclypse Z7: Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board with SYZYGY-compatible Expansion ($299 - $490)
Genesys ZU: Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC Development Board ($749 - $1,197)

Hadn't seen any FPGA deals posted since 2018, so wanted to bring that back.

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They are FPGA development boards. In simple words, they are similar to microcontrollers like an Arduino, but allows you to design hardware (flip-flops/registers, combinatorial logic, PLLs, DMAs, etc.) using blocks or description language. You can actually design your own microcontroller on one of these boards. Great for rapid prototyping or working with anything that requires low-latency and speed.

I'm kind of tempted. I work professionally with Xilinx FPGAs and it would be fun to have one of these for a hobby project. The problem is that I'm not really sure why I would use this for a hobby project instead of something like a Raspberry Pi. Why write Verilog when I can write Python or C++?

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I think raspberry Pi tasted better and has more HDMI.

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11-14-2023 at 12:44 PM.

FPGA board is whole different level than raspberry pi. It has much more freedom but much more difficult to use. Not mentioning how terrible their designing software is

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Depends on the hobby project. If you've got a need for high speed ADCs or DACs, the serializers/deserializers capabilities on are unparalleled. But for most home projects, you're right. Arduinos and pis would solve that. I mainly use mine to rapid prototype and test ideas.

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FPGA board is whole different level than raspberry pi. It has much more freedom but much more difficult to use. Not mentioning how terrible their designing software is

It does have lots of options and a few small bugs here and there but I would say it's far from terrible. Comparing Altera and Xilinx, I think Xilinx does a pretty good job on the software side. The synthesizer is optimized well and for the most part, behaves as expected. You're right though, the learning curve is much larger than that of a raspberry pi, especially when you get into metastability issues.

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11-15-2023 at 12:29 AM.

I should start a business buying circuit boards from China (ones that would be used in cheap mini PCs) and market them as Python programmer developer boards.

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11-15-2023 at 02:24 AM.

Any projects out there based on one of these board? (Like the MisterFPGA is based on the DE10-Nano board)

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Cuz synthesizing a circuit or microarchitecture(+software) is different than making a software.

you can still use systemC or Python to write HDL.

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It does have lots of options and a few small bugs here and there but I would say it's far from terrible. Comparing Altera and Xilinx, I think Xilinx does a pretty good job on the software side. The synthesizer is optimized well and for the most part, behaves as expected. You're right though, the learning curve is much larger than that of a rape pi, especially when you get into metastability issues.

Not to mention the fact that each manufacturer has their own set of proprietary tools vs most software development. Also the builds take far longer to complete and you need a powerful machine with lots of memory (good luck to everyone interested in ultrascale+ development who just bought the shiny new MacBook pro 8GB). Terrible is subjective but proprietary and slow aren't great characteristics.