Discovery 3000 Starter kit Status: ACTIVE

Product Information

Description

The Discovery 3000 Starter kit enables the system developer to load binary data into the DMD and create light patterns.

Features

• DMD Discovery™ 1100 Controller board-
  • 2.8” x 7.75” footprint
  • 5V @ 3A Power
  • 16,300 binary Frames/sec
  • Sequential or random row addressing
  • Xilinx Virtex 4 XC4VLX25-10FF668C Application FPGA
  • 1 Gbit DDR2 SDRAM
  • 8 pin RJ-45 connector
  • Two 90 pin interface connectors.
• 0.7XGA LVDS DMD
  • 0.7 XGA LVDS DMD (1024 x 768 mirrors)
    • 13.68um x 13.68um mirror pixels
    • +/- 12º mirror tilt
    • Up to 16,300 full array mirror patterns/sec (12.8 Gbs)
    • 200 MHz LVDS clock rate
    • 85% optical fill factor
    • Chipset available to support custom applications
• DAD 1000 DMD Power and Reset Driver
  • Reset control of 16 banks of DMD mirrors
• DDC3000 Digital Controller
  • Provides high speed LVDS data and control interface for user interface to the DMD and provides mirror reset and timing information to the DAD1000
  • Supports random row addressing

Data Sheet

DMD Discovery™ 3000 Digital Controller (DDC3000) Starter Kit Technical Reference Manual (2506780.pdf, 389 KB)
Oct 2005 Download

This document describes the functionality of the Discovery 3000 Digital Controller (DDC3000) Starter Kit. The starter kit provides a reference design and test platform for the DDC3000 chipset. The DDC3000 chipset consists of an XC3S400, SNDDISCO3000, DAD1000, and a DMD. The XC3S400 and SNDDISCO3000 make up the DDC3000 controller.

Discovery 3000 Overview (Discovery_3000_Sheet.pdf, 531 KB)
2005 Download

A single page overview describing Discovery 3000