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MATRIX II

The MATrix-II (Multiple Application Tricks) is a low cost universal platform for testing and verifying HDL designs based on the Xilinx and Altera PLDs. The purpose of it is to teach the basic concepts of VLSI designing with various electronic circuits.
     MATrix-II has been revised for higher frequency applications and expansion capabilities. With this users will get more freedom for prototyping of designs.

It has been also extended to some basic electronic circuits for application development and their realization. With this protoboard user can develop his PLD designs with complete applications. Also it gives a complete set of modules for project development for final year students.
MATrix-II supports multiple vendor devices from Xilinx and Altera, who are world leader in PLD manufacturing. The MATrix-II supports Spartan-3, Spartan-2 and XC9500 series of devices from Xilinx; and ACEX 1K and MAX7000s series of devices from Altera.
 
MATrix-II comes along with various adaptors, which are optional to user. Every adaptor is pluggable with baseboard with the help of connectors.
Features and Specifications
 
Multi-vendor device support for Xilinx and Altera PLDs.
Packages supported PLCC84, TQ144 and PQ208.
Voltage support to +1.2V, +2.5V, + 3.3V devices.
Upto 140 user I/Os.
All FPGA I/Os accessible through headers.
Four Multiplexed 7-Segment displays(with segment map).
Half duplex RS232 serial port.
 
User selectable configuration modes, using either FLASH PROM, JTAG / Slave Serial.
 
Byte-blaster cable interface for configuration of Altera FPGAs.
 
On board 8-MHz Clock oscillator (user selectable).
 
Variable frequency generator (from 100Hz to 10 KHz range).
 
Configurable 24 switches as I/P or O/P.
 
16 digital LED indicated outputs.
 
Power on Reset and configuration reset key.
 
Support for different I/O Standards.
 
4x4 membrane keypad.
 
Interface to Atmel 89s8252 ISP microcontroller.
 
Facility for I2C interface.
 
Interface to 8-bit ADC/DAC add-on card.
 
Four 5x7 dot matrix displays.
 
Optically isolated relay card.
 
16x2 character LCD display.
 
Higher frequency board support.
Individual Module Specifications
 
Xilinx Modules
XC9572 PC84-15C containing 72 macrocells with 1,600 usable gates.
50,000 gate density Spartan-II FPGA XC2S50 PQ208-5C.
Altera Modules
MAX7128S PC84-15C CPLD containing 128 macrocells with 2,500 usable gates.
50,000 gate density ACEX1K FPGA EP1K50TC144-3.
Pluggable Micro Controller Card
Atmel AT89S8252 ISP microcontroller. On board In System Programming (ISP) circuit. 8KB ISP Flash & 2KB of EEPROM. Coupled with FPGA for embedded application development. All 32 I/O lines accessible to FPGA. On board reset circuit Timer and interrupt ports.
Relay Card
2 Optically isolated relays. NC , NO, COMM I/Os on block header. Relay ON indication.
ADC/DAC Add-On Module
8 channel ADC 0809 (8-bit) with 100us conversion time. Single channel DAC0800 of 8-bit resolution. Facility for onboard gain adjustment.
Dot Matrix Rolling Display Module
Four 5x7 dot matrix LED display Total 140 LEDs on the board
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Module
16 x 2 characters LCD display Display contrast control
Keyboard Adaptor
4x4 membrane keypad
Applications
FPGA based design development
Tiny embedded applications
Temperature controller
Access control system
Display and Messaging applications PC based applications
8051 microcontroller based applications
Design of 8/16/24/32 bit counters
8/16/24/32 bit Shift register
4-bit and 8-bit ALUs
Timer designs IC8254 and IC8253
8255 PPI design
Adders and subtractors. All digital logic gates and functions