manufacturer: Digilent, Inc.
part name(s): Spartan 3E Starter Board
part code(s): S3EBOARD
product family: FPGA boards, programmable logic

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

Components

• 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

Description

The board 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.

links

• http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD
• documentation