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Spartan-3A/3AN FPGA Starter Kit Board User Guide
UG334 (v1.1) June 19, 2008
Chapter 15:
Expansion Connectors
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Hirose 100-Pin FX2 Edge Connector (J17)
A 100-pin edge connector is located along the right edge of the board. This connector is a
Hirose FX2-100P-1.27DS header with 1.27 mm pitch. Throughout the documentation, this
connector is called the FX2 connector.
As shown in
Figure 15-2
, 43 FPGA I/O pins interface to the FX2 connector.
Three signals are reserved primarily as clock signals between the board and FX2 connector,
although all three connect to full I/O pins.
Expansion Connector Compatibility
For the majority of applications, the FX2 connector on the Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit
board is compatible with the other Xilinx development boards. The Spartan-3E Starter Kit
board and XC3S1600E Starter Kit board optionally provide limited differential I/O
capability on the FX2 connector. The Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board provides
enhanced differential I/O support using the
“Differential I/O Connectors,” page 124
.
•
Spartan-3E Starter Kit board
www.xilinx.com/s3estarter
•
XC3S1600E MicroBlaze Embedded Development Board
www.xilinx.com/sp3e1600e
Furthermore, the Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board supports the other
“FX2-Connector
Compatible Boards,” page 122
.
Voltage Supplies to the Connector
The Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board provides power to the Hirose 100-pin FX connector
and any attached board via two supplies (see
Figure 15-2
). The 5.0V supply provides a
voltage source for any 5V logic on the attached board or alternately provides power to any
voltage regulators on the attached board.
Figure 15-2:
FPGA Connections to the Hirose 100-Pin Edge Connector
Hirose 100-pin Expansion
Connector (J17)
(See Table)
FX2_IO<40:1>
FPGA
5.0V
(M22)
FX2_CLKIN
(L22)
FX2_CLKOUT
(L21)
FX2_CLKIO
(See Table)
(B.46)
(A.47)
(B.48)
GND
UG334_c15_02_052407
VCCO_012 (3.3V)