Mojo v2 FPGA Development Board

A couple years ago, I funded a kickstarter for Embedded Micro's Mojo FPGA Development Board, which was promptly delivered a few months later. This development board features:


- Spartan-6 XC6SLX9 FPGA
- 84 digital I/O pins
- 8 analog inputs
- 8 general purpose LEDs
- 1 reset push button
- 1 LED for FPGA configuration status
- Input voltage regulator for 4.8V - 12V (recommended 5V)
- ATmega32U4 microcontroller to configure FPGA, USB interface, and read analog pins
- On-board flash memory for the FPGA configuration file

The microcontroller uses an Arduino compatible bootloader to allow code loading directly from USB or using the Arduino IDE. Embedded Micro also provides a java based code loader to upload .bin files directly to the Spartan-6 using USB, without a Xilinx programmer.

I found this small board pretty convenient for doing some simple FPGA designs. Plus, its ~$80.00 price make it very accessible to hobbyists compared to the majority of Altera or Xilinx based development boards in the market.

Instructions on how to purchase a board, and how to download and install the tool can be found in Embedded Micro's website.

I'll be using my Mojo v2 for most of my FPGA posts in this blog.