Spartan-3E Reference Manual
Note
The Spartan-3E Starter Board is retired and no longer for sale in our store.
The Spartan-3E Starter Board provides a powerful and highly advanced self-contained development platform for designs targeting the Spartan-3E FPGA from Xilinx. It features a 500K gate Spartan-3E FPGA with a 32-bit RISC processor and DDR interfaces.
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Features
- Xilinx XC3S500E Spartan-3E FPGA
- Up to 232 user-I/O pins
- 320-pin FBGA package
- Over 10,000 logic cells
- Xilinx 4 Mbit Platform Flash configuration PROM
- Xilinx 64-macrocell XC2C64A CoolRunner CPLD
- 64 MByte (512 Mbit) of DDR SDRAM, x16 data interface, 100+ MHz
- 16 MByte (128 Mbit) of parallel NOR Flash (Intel StrataFlash)
- FPGA configuration storage
- MicroBlaze code storage/shadowing
- 16 Mbits of SPI serial Flash (STMicro)
- FPGA configuration storage
- MicroBlaze code shadowing
- 2-line, 16-character LCD screen
- PS/2 mouse or keyboard port
- VGA display port
- 10/100 Ethernet PHY (requires Ethernet MAC in FPGA)
- Two 9-pin RS-232 ports (DTE- and DCE-style)
- On-board USB-based FPGA/CPLD download/debug interface
- 50 MHz clock oscillator
- SHA-1 1-wire serial EEPROM for bitstream copy protection
- Hirose FX2 expansion connector
- Three Digilent 6-pin expansion connectors
- Four-output, SPI-based Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
- Two-input, SPI-based Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with programmable-gain pre-amplifier
- ChipScope™ SoftTouch debugging port
- Rotary-encoder with push-button shaft
- Eight discrete LEDs
- Four slide switches
- Four push-button switches
- SMA clock input
- 8-pin DIP socket for auxiliary clock oscillator