Numato Lab Waxwing - Spartan 6 Mini Module

hey guys thought I'd do a quick review of an FPGA development board that I've been working with recently this is a Amato lab me miss v2 FPGA development board so first up if you're not familiar with what an FPGA is it's this chip here and essentially what it does is it lets you design digital circuits on your computer download them to the chip and this chip essentially becomes that circuit obviously in practice it's a bit more complicated than that but that's the concept this is a spartan 6l x9 chip by his Linux so as Linux is the company that develops it Spartan 6 is the generation of chip and LX 9 is the size of it obviously the bigger the chip the bigger the design you can put on it this is an Alex 9 so they range from Analects 4 up to an LX 150 so it's on the lower end of the range but it's certainly capable for driving the board like this and there's some quite complex designs you