For Industrial and Automotive applications, the system board includes the STMicroelectronics L9616 CAN 2.0B physical layer device, which, when coupled with the BOSCH certified CAN core available from Nu Horizons, you will be well on your way to developing applications with the Microblaze soft processor core. The external Ethernet controller will allow you to create and evaluate CAN to Ethernet gateways.

Linear Technology’s 16-bit 250ksps A/D converter and a complementary LTC 8µs settling time D/A converter are present on the system board for low to mid range DSP and GPP designs.

With the addition of plug-in evaluation modules from Linear Technology, engineers are able to utilize Analog to Digital converters with 10/12/14-bit resolution and sampling rates from 10 to 135Msps. Plug-in evaluation modules from Intersil allow engineers to utilize Digital to Analog converters with 8/10/12/14-bit resolution and throughput rates of 130 to 260MHz - for use in applications such as Medical Imaging, 3G-4G Base Stations and Spectral Analysis.

The Spartan-3 FPGA family from Xilinx has all of the features necessary for today’s most demanding high performance applications, and Nu Horizons Spartan-3 development platforms provide the exact hardware to develop and test to these requirements to meet your company’s time to market expectations.