Pluto, Pluto-II/-IIx/HDMI and Pluto-3 FPGA boards

FPGA development boards that plug into a PC's serial port.

Characteristics:

• Easy to use - controlled from a PC's serial port.
• Small form factor - go into a 'solderless-breadboard' for experiments, or used as motherboards or daughterboards for other projects.
• Few on-board peripherals, most IOs available to connect to external peripherals.
• Built-in voltage regulator, allows to use a common DC adapter as power supply.
• Flashy and Widy compatible (and FlashyD and Widy-D for Pluto-3).

FPGA configuration

Select a bitfile, and click the 'Configure!' button in the provided application. The process takes 10 to 60 seconds. The boot-PROM can also programmed/verified/erased (with Pluto-II/-IIx/HDMI/-3 only, since Pluto doesn't have a boot-PROM).

How to connect the boards to a PC

The Pluto boards connect to a PC's serial port.
The serial port has two purposes:

1. It is used for FPGA/boot-PROM configuration.
2. It is used for PC <--> FPGA communication once the FPGA is configured (you can write a PC software that give orders to the FPGA, for example).

What files do you receive with the Pluto boards?

Board files:

• Board documentation (view online here) (PDF)
• FPGAconf configuration software (Windows EXE)
• FlashyDemo (FPGA bitfile + GUI)

FPGA projects, 'ready to compile':

• LED (HDL source code)
• Music (HDL source code)
• SerialRxTx (HDL + C source code)
• Pong VGA (HDL source code)
• FlashyMiny (HDL + C source code)

To purchase a board

Go to the Shop - FPGA development boards (serial and parallel) page.