FPGA Xilinx Spartan-3E Board

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 STMicroelectronics® 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.

Spartan-3E Starter Board Features:
– Xilinx Spartan-3E (500K gates) XC3S500E FPGA
– Xilinx XCF04 Platform Flash for storing FPGA configurations
– Texas Instruments TPS75003 Triple-Supply Power Management IC
– JTAG & SPI Flash programming with parallel or USB JTAG cable
– Linear Technology Power Supplies
– 64MB Micron® DDR SDRAM
– 16MB Numonyx StrataFlash™
– 2MB ST Microelectronics Serial Flash
– JTAG programming via on-board USB2 port
– Numerous additional configuration options
– SMSC LAN83C185 Ethernet PHY
– PS/2 keyboard
– RJ-45 Ethernet
– 16-pin header for optional LCD modules
– SMA connector for high-speed clock input
– Two DB9 RS-232 connectors
– 100 pin Hirose FX2 connector
– Three 6-pin Pmod ports
– DB15HD VGA

Spartan-3E Starter Board Connectors:
– 100-pin Hirose FX2 connector
– Three 6-pin Pmod ports
– 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

Note:
In order to program and communicate with the Spartan-3E Starter board, you must download and install the free Xilinx ISE WebPACK software.
For reference designs and documentation, please visit Xilinx’s Spartan-3E support page.

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Package Includes:
1 x Spartan-3E Starter Board
1 x USB A to B cable
1 x External power supply