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Chapter 1
Introduction
The Xilinx Spartan-3 Starter Kit provides a low-cost, easy-to-use development and
evaluation platform for Spartan-3 FPGA designs.
Key Components and Features
Figure 1-1 shows the Spartan-3 Starter Kit board, which includes the following
components and features:
• 200,000-gate Xilinx Spartan-3 XC3S200 FPGA in a 256-ball thin Ball Grid Array
package (XC3S200FT256)
♦ 4,320 logic cell equivalents
♦ Twelve 18K-bit block RAMs (216K bits)
♦ Twelve 18x18 hardware multipliers
♦ Four Digital Clock Managers (DCMs)
♦ Up to 173 user-defined I/O signals
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2Mbit Xilinx XCF02S Platform Flash , in-system programmable configuration
PROM
♦ 1Mbit non-volatile data or application code storage available after FPGA
configuration
♦ Jumper options allow FPGA application to read PROM data or FPGA
configuration from other sources
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1M-byte of Fast Asynchronous SRAM (bottom side of board, see Figure 1-3 )
♦ Two 256Kx16 ISSI IS61LV25616AL-10T 10 ns SRAMs
♦ Configurable memory architecture
- Single 256Kx32 SRAM array, ideal for MicroBlaze code images
- Two independent 256Kx16 SRAM arrays
♦ Individual chip select per device
♦ Individual byte enables
• 3-bit, 8-color VGA display port
• 9-pin RS-232 Serial Port
♦ DB9 9-pin female connector (DCE connector)
♦ RS-232 transceiver/level translator
♦ Uses straight-through serial cable to connect to computer or workstation serial
port
♦ Second RS-232 transmit and receive channel available on board test points
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