The Spartan-3 Starter Board provides a powerful, self-contained development platform for designs targeting the new Spartan-3 FPGA from Xilinx. It features a 200K gate Spartan-3, on-board I/O devices, and 1MB fast asyncronous SRAM, making it the perfect platform to experiment with any new design, from a simple logic circuit to an embedded processor core.

The board also contains a Platform Flash JTAG-programmable ROM, so designs can easily be made non-volatile. The Spartan-3 Starter Board is fully compatible with all versions of the Xilinx ISE tools, including the free WebPack. It ships with a power supply. A programming cable is available separately.

Features

• Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA w/ twelve 18-bit multipliers, 216Kbits of block RAM, and up to 500MHz internal clock speeds
• -200, -400, and -1000 versions available
• On-board 2Mbit Platform Flash (XCF02S)
• 8 slide switches, 4 pushbuttons, 9 LEDs, and 4-digit seven-segment display
• Serial port, VGA port, and PS/2 mouse/keyboard port
• Three 40-pin expansion connectors
• Three high-current voltage regulators (3.3V, 2.5V, and 1.2V)
• Works with JTAG3 programming cable, and P4 & MultiPRO cables from Xilinx
• 1Mbyte on-board 10ns SRAM (256Kb x 32)

Connectors

Three 40-pin expansion connectors
VGA
RS-232
PS/2

Programming

JTAG programmable with parallel or USB cables; on-board Platform Flash

References

• Manufacturer name: Digilent
• Manufacturer's part name(s): Spartan-3 Board
• Manufacturer's part code(s): S3BOARD

Resources

• Manufacturer product page
• Documents