Arty MPW Tester
The Arty MPW Tester is a simple expansion board compatible with Digilent Arty A7 development kit. This board connects IO signals from the Xilinx Artix FPGA located on the Arty board to an open hardware Caravel breakout board. The Caravel breakout board allows testing ASIC designs prepared for Multi Project Wafer (MPW) shuttles and fabricated with the SkyWater Process Design Kit (PDKs).
You can learn more about the OpenMPW Shuttle Program by visiting this link.
The Arty MPW Tester board routes the interfaces from Caravel and provides the necessary power buses.
Caravel Flexypin Breakout testbed slot with optional FlexyPins
Arty A7 chipKIT compatible (37 MPRJ_IO, clock input, GPIO and reset)
USB-C interface for MPRJ SPI/UART debug implemented with FTDI FT232HQ chip exposed on GCT USB4105-GF-A connector
Winbond W25Q32FVSSIG SPI Flash memory connected to Caravel and Arty
Dedicated 10MHz MEMS oscillator ECS Inc. ECS-2520MVLC-100-BN-TR
Dual LDO (selectable) with fixed and I2C controlled feedback implemented with Microchip MIC2211-AAYML-TR and Microchip MCP4661103E/ML
Pin headers for all power rails, reset, clock, UART and SPI Flash
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Name | Type | Material | Thickness[mm] | Constant |
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F.Mask | Top Solder Mask | 0.01 | ||
F.Cu | copper | 0.035 | ||
dielectric 1 | prepreg | PR2116 | 0.12 | 4.3 |
In1.Cu | copper | 0.035 | ||
dielectric 2 | core | FR4-improved | 1.2 | 4.3 |
In2.Cu | copper | 0.035 | ||
dielectric 3 | prepreg | PR2116 | 0.12 | 4.3 |
B.Cu | copper | 0.035 | ||
B.Mask | Bottom Solder Mask | 0.01 |