Spartan-3E Reference Manual

The Spartan-3E Starter Board provides a powerful and highly advanced self-contained development platform for designs targeting the Spartan-3E FPGA from Xilinx. It features a 500K gate Spartan-3E FPGA with a 32-bit RISC processor and DDR interfaces.

• Xilinx XC3S500E Spartan-3E FPGA
  • Up to 232 user-I/O pins
  • 320-pin FBGA package
  • Over 10,000 logic cells
• Xilinx 4 Mbit Platform Flash configuration PROM
• Xilinx 64-macrocell XC2C64A CoolRunner CPLD
• 64 MByte (512 Mbit) of DDR SDRAM, x16 data interface, 100+ MHz
• 16 MByte (128 Mbit) of parallel NOR Flash (Intel StrataFlash)
  • FPGA configuration storage
  • MicroBlaze code storage/shadowing
• 16 Mbits of SPI serial Flash (STMicro)
  • FPGA configuration storage
  • MicroBlaze code shadowing
• 2-line, 16-character LCD screen
• PS/2 mouse or keyboard port
• VGA display port
• 10/100 Ethernet PHY (requires Ethernet MAC in FPGA)
• Two 9-pin RS-232 ports (DTE- and DCE-style)
• On-board USB-based FPGA/CPLD download/debug interface
• 50 MHz clock oscillator
• SHA-1 1-wire serial EEPROM for bitstream copy protection
• Hirose FX2 expansion connector
• Three Digilent 6-pin expansion connectors
• Four-output, SPI-based Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
• Two-input, SPI-based Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with programmable-gain pre-amplifier
• ChipScope™ SoftTouch debugging port
• Rotary-encoder with push-button shaft
• Eight discrete LEDs
• Four slide switches
• Four push-button switches
• SMA clock input
• 8-pin DIP socket for auxiliary clock oscillator