Hello all,

I hope I haven't put this in the wrong place, but I couldn't find a more suitable "General" section in the forum, I hope it's not out of line.

As there is about a month lead-time for the VC707 from Xilinx, I've been looking at getting a temporary development platform in the meantime.

A bit of internet searching yields two potentials, both using Spartan6-LX150's.

One is the Opal Kelly XEM-6310 (which has a EZ-USB3 to host interface - nice) and the other is the ZTEX v1.15 LX150 (which uses an EZ-USB2 interface to host). What matters most to me is the quality and support - after going through the Altium fiasco, I don't want to give my money to have my time and effort wasted.

Has anyone experience with these companies or modules? Any recommendations or warnings for/against would be appreciated.

Mario.

Hi.

I had experience with the OpalKelly (XEM5010). I had to contact them
several times. Their response was almost instant and very good.
I'm not familiar with the other company, but for sure I would
recommend you OpalKelly.
I used their UI and also Python. System works fine, and it is well
described.

Regards,
Igor

Igor,

Your recommendation sealed the deal, as well as the fact that the OpalKelly board had USB3 support (~300Mbyte/sec) and it also broke out more GPIO's and GCLOCK's than the ZTEX, I decided to go for the XEM route.

Many thanks,

Mario.