Larger Digilent Artix-7 trainer board for courses needing more peripherals than Basys 3.
XC7A100T-1CSG324Cprice unknowneducationvideoaudiorisc-v
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Small Gowin GW1NR board for low-cost learning, HDMI experiments, softcore demos, and open-source Gowin flow exploration.
GW1NR-LV9QN88PC6/I5open toolchain14.5 USDeducationvideorisc-vretro
| Field | Nexys A7 | Tang Nano 9K |
|---|---|---|
| Chip | XC7A100T-1CSG324C | GW1NR-LV9QN88PC6/I5 |
| Family | Artix-7 | GW1NR / LittleBee |
| Device type | FPGA | FPGA |
| Price | unknown | 14.5 USD |
| Toolchains | Vivado WebPACK / ML Standard | Gowin EDA, Yosys + nextpnr-gowin + Apicula |
| Open toolchain | no | yes |
| Interfaces | Ethernet, VGA, USB | HDMI, USB Type-C, Onboard JTAG, USB UART |
| Memory | DDR2 requires verification from Digilent resource center | PSRAM 64 Mbit, Onboard flash 32 Mbit |
| Documentation | 82 | 70 |
| Difficulty | beginner | beginner |
| Openness score | 15 | 72 |
| Where to get help | Digilent Forum | r/GowinFPGA |
| Typical risks | Split 50T/100T variants before publishing exact resource counts. | Pinout and constraints must be taken from the exact board revision files, not inferred from this catalog entry. Open-source flow is feature-dependent |
| Better for | beginner learning | beginner learning |