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The Nexys 4 DDR is the latest addition to the Nexys line of Digilent FPGA board designed exclusively for the Vivado Design Suite, featuring Xilinx XC7A100T Artix 7-FPGA architecture. Nexys 4 DDR as the name suggests, packs a DDR2 external memory. Has additional slide switches, leds compared to Nexys 4….

For more information, check out the video below.

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• Schematic – **Insert Schematic PDF Here**
  • PDF Schematic of the PCB generated by Altium
• Reference Manual – Wiki **Insert REFMAN PDF Here**
  • Technical description of the Nexys4 DDR and all of its features. The Wiki may contain more up-to-date information than the PDF.
• Getting Started Guide – Wiki
  • Great starting point for new Nexys4 DDR owners. Includes the kit contents, instructions for running the out of box demo, and instructions for building a simple design.

• Master XDC – **Insert Master XDC Link Here**
  • This package contains the master XDC that defines the pin constraints for every device on the Nexys4 DDR.

• Master UCF – **Insert Master UCF Link Here**
  • This package contains the master UCF that defines the pin constraints for every device on the Nexys4 DDR.

• General I/O Demo – Wiki
  • Basic demo that uses the onboard switches, buttons, leds, 7-segment display, UART, a VGA monitor and a USB-HID mouse. This project is pre-loaded into SPI flash when the board is shipped.

* Getting Started with Vivado IP Integrator - Wiki

• Follow this simple introduction on using the Vivado IP Integrator.
• IP blocks for Microblaze, Memory Interface Generator (MIG) and UART will be added to run a Hello World bare-metal project on the Nexys 4 DDR.
• 2014.3 Vivado and SDK will be used.
• Before running the Vivado IP Integrator demo, please refer to the Wiki page: boardfiles. Here you will find instructions on downloading the required Board Support Files.
• Please refer to this Wiki page Installing Vivado on how to install Vivado.

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