The Mojo
The Mojo is a FPGA development board that is designed from the ground up to be easy to use. If you are unsure of what a FPGA is, you should take a look at this tutorial.
The Mojo features include
- Spartan 6 XC6SLX9 FPGA
- 84 digital IO pins
- 8 analog inputs
- 8 general purpose LEDs
- 1 reset button
- 1 LED to show when the FPGA is correctly configured
- On board voltage regulation that can handle 4.8V - 12V
- A microcontroller (ATmega16U4) used for configuring the FPGA, USB communications, and reading the analog pins
- On board flash memory to store the FPGA configuration file
The microcontroller comes with a USB (DFU) bootloader which will allow you to install future upgrades to the firmware without having to buy a programmer. Once the board is powered on the microcontroller configures the FPGA from the flash memory. After the FPGA is succesfully configured the microcontroller enters slave mode. This allows your FPGA designs to talk to the microcontroller; giving you access to the serial port and the analog inputs.
More information
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Get your own!
If you'd like to order your own Mojo you can do so here.
Getting started
Check out the tutorials listed under this page to the left. They will guide you through installing the software you need and get you started designing your own projects.