The XEM6010 is a USB 2.0 FPGA development board based on the remarkably-capable Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM6010 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0 for configuration downloads, enabling speedy FPGA configuration and data transfer. With integrated SDRAM, power supplies, and platform flash, the XEM6010 is a worthy successor to the most popular Opal Kelly module.
The XEM6010 and other Spartan-6 products are now end-of-life. Please consider the XEM7310 or XEM7010 (Artix-7 FPGA) as possible migration replacements.
Integrated 128-MiByte DDR2 provides plenty of on-board memory for high-performance applications, including image capture and data acquisition.
SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES
High-efficiency switching power supplies provide stable, dependable power to the FPGA. In most applications, there is enough extra juice to also supply your board.
BOOTABLE SERIAL FLASH
The XEM6010 integrates 32 Mib of on-board serial flash for standalone FPGA booting and miscellaneous nonvolatile memory.
MULTI-OUTPUT PLL
The on-board PLL provides flexible clocking to the FPGA and expansion connectors.
Customer Deployments
Bioinformatics co-processors
Radar system - test interface, system integration, field testing
Camera interface for IR and LIDAR 3D cameras
Equipment for analyzing satellite imagery
University research
Design of equipment for mineral exploration
Applications
Image or video capture / processing
Data acquisition
Digital communications
ASIC / hardware-based simulation and verification
Bioinformatics (DNA search and pattern matching)
Bioinformatics (DNA search and pattern matching)
Evaluation platform for your product
Custom test equipment
Cryptography
Data Security
Product Comparison
Feature
XEM3010-1500P
XEM6010-LX45
XEM3050-4000P
XEM6010-LX150
FPGA Minimum Xilinx Tools Required
XC3S1500-4 ISE WebPack
XC6SLX45-2 ISE WebPack
XC3S4000-5 ISE Logic Edition
XC6SLX150-2 ISE Logic Edition
Slice Architecture1
2 4-LUT, 2 DFF
4 6-LUT, 8 DFF
2 4-LUT, 2 DFF
4 6-LUT, 8 DFF
Slices
13,312
6,822
27,648
23,038
DFFs
26,624
54,576
55,296
184,304
Dist. RAM
208 Kib
401 Kib
432 Kib
1,355 Kib
Block RAM
576 Kib
2,088 Kib
1,728 Kib
4,824 Kib
MULT / DSP2
32
58
96
180
MCB3
✔
✔
PLLs4
✔ (4 CMT)
✔ (6 CMT)
On-Board Memory Banks, Width
32 MiB SDRAM One, x16
128 MiB DDR2 One, x16
64 MiB SDRAM Two, x16
128 MiB DDR2 One, x16
Peak Memory Bandwidth
2.128 Gb/s
10 Gb/s
4.256 Gb/s
10 Gb/s
1 Spartan-6 has improved slice density with 6-input LUTs and more LUTs and DFFs per slice. 2 Spartan-6 DSP blocks include MULT and integrated 48-bit accumulator. 3 Spartan-6 MCBs (memory controller blocks) reduce the fabric resources consumed for memory support. 4 Spartan-6 includes PLLs for greater clock management flexibility.
Technical Specifications and Support
Features & Specifications
Xilinx Spartan-6 (XC6SLX45-2FGG or XC6SLX150-2FGG)
32-Mib serial flash (Numonyx M32P25)
128-MiByte DDR2 (Micron MT47H64M16HR)
Small form-factor -- smaller than a credit card at 75mm x 50mm x 15.9mm (2.95" x 1.97" x 0.63")
High-speed USB 2.0 interface (Cypress FX2LP - CY68013A) for downloading and control
Status: END OF LIFE
Status: Production
Status: Limited Production
