Spartan-3E FPGA Starter Kit Board User Guide
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Chapter 1
Introduction and Overview
Thank you for purchasing the Xilinx Spartan
®
-3E FPGA Starter Kit. You will find it useful
in developing your Spartan-3E FPGA application.
Choose the Starter Kit Board for Your Needs
Depending on specific requirements, choose the Xilinx development board that best suits
your needs.
Spartan-3E FPGA Features and Embedded Processing Functions
The Spartan-3E Starter Kit board highlights the unique features of the Spartan-3E FPGA
family and provides a convenient development board for embedded processing
applications. The board highlights these features:
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Spartan-3E FPGA specific features
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Parallel NOR Flash configuration
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MultiBoot FPGA configuration from Parallel NOR Flash PROM
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SPI serial Flash configuration
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Embedded development
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MicroBlaze™ 32-bit embedded RISC processor
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PicoBlaze™ 8-bit embedded controller
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DDR memory interfaces
Advanced Spartan-3 Generation Development Boards
The Spartan-3E Starter Kit board demonstrates the basic capabilities of the MicroBlaze
embedded processor and the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK). For more
advanced development consider the capable boards offered by Xilinx partners:
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Spartan-3 Generation Board Interactive Search
