NiteFury and Litefury: Xilinx FPGA development board kit in M.2 form factor

Ever wanted to work with FPGA, and connect to DDR and PCI express without spending a small fortune?

NiteFury and Litefury are compact, full-featured FPGA developement boards featuring a decent size FGPA, DDR3, and PCI express connectivity in a small form factor, for a low price.

Features and general specifications

• Xilinx FPGA
• Onboard DDR3 with 1.6GB/s bandwidth
• Onboard configuration flash (S25FL series)
• PCIe x4 gen 2 interface to FGPA (2GB/s)
• IO: 4x LVDS pairs and 4 general purpose
• 4 user controlled LEDs
• External I/O via I/O connector: 12 Total, 4 selectable analog or digital
• External I/O via PCIe connector: 1x 3.3V digital I/O (LED), SMBus
• 10W VCCINT supply
• Dimensions: 22x80x28mm

Specifications

Feature	Nitefury-II	Litefury
FPGA	XC7A200T-2FBG484E	XC7A100T-L2FGG484E
RAM	1GB DDR3-800	512MB DDR3-800
Flash	256Mb	128Mb, 256Mb

Block Diagram

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Where to buy

• RHS Research store
• [Amazon] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9G97JN2)
• [Amazon Litefury] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BKSVJH5)
• [Amazon Nitefury] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9FMBF6C)

Important note on JTAG connections

If you have the original, single-connector JTAG adapter, it only works with the "white" JTAG cable. As shown here

If you have the new dual-connector JTAG adapter, be careful to connect the cable properly. If you have a white JTAG cable, it will connect to the connector labelled "WHT" If you have a black JTAG cable, it will connect to the connector labelled "BLK"

As shown:

More information

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