Digilent Artix-7 board with Vivado WebPACK support, Pmods, Arduino/chipKIT style expansion, DDR3 and Ethernet.
XC7A35TICSG324-1Lprice unknowneducationrisc-vcontroldsp
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Compact open-source Lattice ECP5 board commonly used with LiteX, USB and open-source ECP5 flows.
LFE5U-25F/85Fopen toolchainprice unknownrisc-vlinuxusbeducation
| Field | Arty A7 | OrangeCrab |
|---|---|---|
| Chip | XC7A35TICSG324-1L | LFE5U-25F/85F |
| Family | Artix-7 | ECP5 |
| Device type | FPGA | FPGA |
| Price | unknown | unknown |
| Toolchains | Vivado WebPACK / ML Standard | Yosys + nextpnr + Project Trellis |
| Open toolchain | no | yes |
| Interfaces | Ethernet, USB UART, USB-JTAG | USB, MicroSD |
| Memory | DDR3 variant-specific; verify in Digilent memory tab | DDR3 requires revision check |
| Documentation | 86 | 65 |
| Difficulty | beginner | intermediate |
| Openness score | 20 | 92 |
| Where to get help | Digilent Forum | OrangeCrab GitHub organization |
| Typical risks | Variant-specific records should be split before publishing exact resources. 35T and 100T variants differ | Feature set differs across OrangeCrab revisions; verify exact revision. |
| Better for | beginner learning | open-source flow |