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


Small board, big features...	Extend your XuLA I/O...	1,000,000 gates for $199...	SOC design for less than $399...

The XuLA with 200-Kgate Spartan-3A FPGA, 8 MB SDRAM, 2 Mb Flash on a 2" x 1" board.	The StickIt! board connects your XuLA board to PMOD and Wing modules.	The XSA-3S1000 Board with 1-Mgate Spartan-3 FPGA, 32 MB SDRAM, 2 MB Flash and 512-color VGA graphics.	The XST-3S1000 is an integrated package that combines an XST-4 Board with an XSA-3S1000 Board.

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Announcements...

Element 14 Tutorial Using XuLA!: The XuLA board is being used for the FPGA portion of a design tutorial written by Paul Clarke for Element 14.
Introducing StickIt!: Our new StickIt! board lets you connect PMOD and Wing modules to your XuLA FPGA board. We're also introducing our first two StickIt! modules: LED digits and pushbuttons.
EEWeb site of the day!: Our blog was selected as EEWeb's "Site of the Day" for Jan 2nd. Thanks!
European Distributor!: Trenz Electronic GmbH is our new distributor for Europe!
EEWeb Interview!: An interview with Dave Vanden Bout has appeared on EEWeb.
A free VHDL textbook is available!: A free, open-source VHDL textbook, Free Range VHDL, is available. More...
Essential VHDL price reduction!: We've lowered the price of the Essential VHDL textbook to $24.95.
XuLA-200 price reduction!: We've lowered the price of the XuLA-200 board to $55.
New XuLA Tutorial!: We have a new tutorial that shows how to do FPGA designs using the XuLA Board! We're adding chapters as we go along. Check it out here.
New XESS Blog!: There's finally a blog that talks about things going on at XESS Corp! Check it out here.
555 Contest Winners!: The ten winners of a XuLA-200 Board in the recently-concluded 555 contest have been selected. See their winning entries.
Lower Shipping Charges!!: We've revamped our shipping calculations to lower costs on orders sent through the postal system. Now we can deliver to you in any country for as little as a few dollars!
Big Ben Chimes!: Hellwig Geisse has built an FM synthesizer with the XuLA Board that outputs the chimes of Big Ben! More...
Introducing XuLA!: XuLA is here!. Our new XuLA-50 and XuLA-200 Boards pack a lot of power into a small footprint.
XSTOOLs 5.1.3!: We have released XSTOOLs 5.1.3 that adds support for the new XuLA Boards.
J1 Forth CPU!: James Bowman has created the J1 Forth CPU in just 200 lines of Verilog but it executes Forth programs at 100 MIPs. Read more here.
Controller-less USB Core!: Johns Hopkins University has provided us with their USB HID core that talks to a PC using just a pair of FPGA I/O pins.