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Choose a Spartan-3 Generation Starter Kit Board for your Needs
Choose a Spartan-3 Generation Starter Kit Board for your Needs
The Spartan-3A Starter Kit board is best for prototyping Spartan-3A FPGA applications.
Depending on specific requirements, however, Xilinx and third-party companies offer
development boards that better suit other needs.
Spartan-3A FPGA Features and Embedded Processing Functions
The Spartan-3A Starter Kit board highlights the unique features of the Spartan-3A FPGA
family and provides a convenient development board for embedded processing
applications. The board highlights these features:
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Spartan-3A specific features
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Parallel NOR Flash configuration
SPI serial Flash configuration using either the STMicroelectronics or Atmel
DataFlash architectures
MultiBoot FPGA configuration from both Parallel NOR and SPI serial Flash
PROMs
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Embedded development
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Power management using the Spartan-3A Suspend mode feature
DDR2 SDRAM memory interfaces
Other Spartan-3 Generation Development Boards
The Spartan-3A Starter Kit board demonstrates the full capabilities of the Spartan-3A
FPGA family and the Xilinx ISE? development software. Also consider two other
products based on the same board::
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Spartan-3AN FPGA Starter Kit Board (HW-SPAR3AN-SK-UNI-G)
Spartan-3A FPGA DDR2 SDRAM Interface Starter Kit Board (HW-SPAR3ADDR2-
DK-UNI-G)
For a development board specific to the Spartan-3E FPGA family, consider the Spartan-3E
Starter Kit board. There are multiple ordering codes, depending on the included power
supply.
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Spartan-3E Starter Kit Board (H W -SPAR3E-SK_xx)
For MicroBlaze development, consider the XC3S1600E Embedded Development board.
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XC3S1600E Embedded Development Board (DO-SP3E1600E-DK-UNI-G)
For PCI EXPRESS ? applications, consider the Spartan-3 PCI EXPRESS Starter Kit.
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Spartan-3 PCI EXPRESS Starter Kit (HW-S3PCIE-DK)
Spartan-3A FPGA Starter Kit Board User Guide
UG330 (v1.3) June 21, 2007
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