XESS homepage announcements

XESS Corp. promotes the use of programmable logic technologies by offering reasonably-priced development environments to engineers, researchers, instructors and students.


1,000,000 gates for $199...	For additional features...	SOC design for less than $399...	Program thru USB...

The XSA-3S1000 Board with 1-Mgate Spartan-3 FPGA, 32 MB SDRAM, 2MB Flash and 512-color VGA graphics.	The XST-4 Board adds video inputs, 20-bit audio, 10/100 Ethernet, USB, LEDs, switches and a prototyping area.	The XST-3S1000 is an integrated package that combines an XST-4 Board with an XSA-3S1000 Board.	The XSUSB Board converts the XSA and XSB Boards to use the USB port.

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Announcements...

ISE 10 Tutorial!: We have a new application note that shows how to use the free ISE WebPACK 10 software to create designs for the XSA Boards.
Image Processing Lab at ENSTA!: See how students at ENSTA are using the XST-3S1000 to build image processing algorithms in hardware.
Introducing the XSUSB interface!: The XSUSB is available! It connects to the parallel port connector of an XSA or XSB Board and converts it for operation through a USB port.
XSTOOLs 5.1.0!: We have released XSTOOLs 5.1.0 which overhauls the XSTOOLs utilities and adds support for USB ports.
New VGA generator!: We have released a new VGA generator core for the XSA Boards allows downloading of images through the parallel port while the VGA generator is running. You can also use the parallel port interface to support SDRAM upload/download operations in your own projects. Download it here.
Dualport SDRAM module!: Version 1.0 of the dualport module is available! After attaching the dualport module to the front-end of the SDRAM controller, two or more applications can independently read/write the SDRAM in parallel. Download the source code...
New SDRAM controller!: Version 1.4 of the SDRAM controller for the XSA and XSB Boards is available! Download the source code...