Mercury 2
An Artix-7 FPGA development board in a 64-pin DIP package, 3 by 1 inches, that plugs straight into a breadboard.
In stock
| Part number | Configuration | Price |
|---|---|---|
| ME2A-35T-4M | XC7A35T, 4 Mbit SRAM | $159 |
| ME2A-100T-16M | XC7A100T, 16 Mbit SRAM | $299 |
Prices and stock come from the current store.
- Educational discount: 20% for students, faculty and staff. How to get it
- Ships from Waterford, Michigan. Shipping options
- 90-day warranty against manufacturing defects
Mercury 2 puts an Artix-7 FPGA, memory, analog I/O and a fast USB link on a board small enough to sit in a breadboard. There are no proprietary expansion connectors: the 64 round machine-header pins drop straight into a solderless breadboard or a 0.6-inch DIP socket.
Made in Michigan
Mercury 2 is designed and assembled in the United States, on the same in-house SMT line we use for client prototypes. That lets us customize builds, for example with part substitutions or industrial temperature range parts. Ask us about a custom build.
Flexible I/O
Most FPGA development boards are limited to 3.3 V digital I/O. Mercury 2 adds an 8-channel SPI ADC, a 2-channel SPI DAC and the Artix-7’s internal XADC, plus 40 5-volt-tolerant digital I/O pins, so it can talk to TTL-level devices and analog sensors directly.
Accessories
The Mercury 2 Ethboard adds an RJ45 jack for the on-board Ethernet PHY.
Specifications
- FPGA
- AMD (Xilinx) Artix-7: XC7A35T or XC7A100T
- 50 MHz MEMS oscillator, ±50 ppm
- USB
- FTDI FT2232H, 480 Mbps USB 2.0
- Channel A: configuration and debugging (SPI flash programming, USB-JTAG)
- Channel B: user-configurable high-speed link between FPGA and host
- Memory
- 32 Mbit SPI configuration and user flash
- 4 Mbit (512K × 8) or 16 Mbit (2M × 8) 10 ns asynchronous SRAM
- Analog I/O
- Microchip MCP3008: 8-channel, 200 kSPS, 10-bit ADC
- Microchip MCP4812: 2-channel, 225 kSPS, 10-bit DAC
- Artix-7 XADC: 1 MSPS, 12-bit, on a dedicated input or mappable to FPGA-direct I/O
- Digital I/O
- 40 5-volt-tolerant I/O pins via 2× TI SN74CB3T16210 bus switches
- 10 FPGA-direct high-speed I/O pins
- 3 user LEDs
- Microchip LAN8720A 10/100 Ethernet PHY
- Expansion headers for Ethernet and Wi-Fi modules
- 6-pin JTAG header
- Power
- Micro USB or external 4.5–5.5 V regulated supply
- Switching regulators for the 3.3 V, 1.8 V and 1.0 V rails
