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Spartan 3E Starter Board

IC:	Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA (500K gates)
Connector(s):	100-pin Hirose FX2 connector Three 6-pin Pmod connectors DB15HD VGA PS/2 keyboard Two DB9 RS-232 connectors RJ-45 Ethernet 16-pin header for optional LCD modules SMA connector for high-speed clock input
Programming:	JTAG programming via on-board USB2 port; JTAG & SPI Flash programming with parallel or USB JTAG Cable; numerous additional configuration options.

Xilinx XC3S500E FPGA
Xilinx XCF04 Platform Flash for storing FPGA configurations
32MB Micron DDR SDRAM
16MB Numonyx StrataFlash
2MB ST Microelectronics Serial Flash
Linear Technologies Power Supplies
Texas Instruments TPS75003 Triple-Supply Power Management IC
SMSC LAN83C185 Ethernet PHY

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.

The board also features a Xilinx Platform Flash, USB and JTAG parallel programming interfaces with numerous FPGA configuration options via the onboard Intel StrataFlash and ST Microelectronics Serial Flash. The board is fully compatible with all versions of the Xilinx ISE tools including the free WebPack. The board ships with a power supply and USB cable for programming so designs can be implemented immediately with no hidden costs. The Spartan 3E Starter board is also compatible with the MicroBlaze Embedded Development Kit (EDK) and PicoBlaze from Xilinx.

Support Documents

DSD-0000232	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Programmable Logic	ActivePowerMeter.zip
Active Power Meter reference design

DSD-0000233	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Programmable Logic	BramCfgRefProj.zip
BRAM Configuration reference design

DSD-0000235	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 PMOD-PS2 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Peripheral Programmable Logic	MouseDisplayer RefComp.zip
PS2 Mouse Displayer reference component

DSD-0000234	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 PMOD-PS2 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Peripheral Programmable Logic	MouseRefComp.zip
PS2 Mouse Control reference component

DSD-0000239	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 PMOD-PS2 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Peripheral Programmable Logic	PwmRefComp1.zip
Pulse-width modulation reference component

DSD-0000238	NEXYS2 PMOD-RS232 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Peripheral Programmable Logic	RS232 RefComp.zip
RS232 interface reference component

DSD-0000240	NEXYS2 PMOD-RS232 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Peripheral Programmable Logic	RS232 RefProj.zip
RS232 example reference design

DSD-0000237	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 PMOD-PS2 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Peripheral Programmable Logic	Rs232 RefProj.zip
Pulse-width modulation reference component

DSD-0000052	S3EBOARD		Programmable Logic	S3E Starter_sch.pdf
Spartan 3E Schematic

DSD-0000051	S3EBOARD		Programmable Logic	S3EStarter_ug230.pdf
Spartan 3E Starter User Guide

DSD-0000241	BASYS BASYS2 NEXYS NEXYS2 S3BOARD S3EBOARD	4/20/09	Programmable Logic	VGA RefComp.zip
VGA controller reference design