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. 

The board also features a Xilinx Platform Flash, USB, and JTAG parallel programming interfaces with numerous FPGA configuration options via the onboard Intel^® StrataFlash and STMicroelectronics^® Serial Flash. The board is fully compatible with all versions of the Xilinx ISE^® tools, including the free WebPACK™. The board ships with a power supply and USB cable for programming so designs can be implemented immediately with no hidden costs. The Spartan-3E Starter board is also compatible with the MicroBlaze™ Embedded Development Kit (EDK) and PicoBlaze™ from Xilinx. 

Note:

In order to program and communicate with the Spartan-3E Starter board, you must download and install the free Xilinx ISE WebPACK software.

For reference designs and documentation, please visit Xilinx's Spartan-3E support page. 

Stats:

Processor/IC: Xilinx Spartan-3E (500K gates) XC3S500E FPGA

Connector(s):

• 100-pin Hirose FX2 connector
• Three 6-pin Pmod ports
• DB15HD VGA
• PS/2 keyboard
• Two DB9 RS-232 connectors
• RJ-45 Ethernet
• 16-pin header for optional LCD modules
• SMA connector for high-speed clock input

Programming: JTAG programming via on-board USB2 port; JTAG & SPI Flash programming with parallel or USB JTAG cable; numerous additional configuration options

Features:

• Xilinx Spartan-3E (500K gates) XC3S500E FPGA
  
• Xilinx XCF04 Platform Flash for storing FPGA configurations
  
• Texas Instruments TPS75003 Triple-Supply Power Management IC 
  
• JTAG & SPI Flash programming with parallel or USB JTAG cable 
  
• Linear Technology Power Supplies
• 64MB Micron^® DDR SDRAM 
  
• 16MB Numonyx StrataFlash™ 
  
• 2MB ST Microelectronics Serial Flash
• JTAG programming via on-board USB2 port 
  
• Numerous additional configuration options 
  
• SMSC LAN83C185 Ethernet PHY
• PS/2 keyboard 
  
• RJ-45 Ethernet  
  
• 16-pin header for optional LCD modules
  
• SMA connector for high-speed clock input
  
• Two DB9 RS-232 connectors 
  
• 100-pin Hirose FX2 connector 
  
• Three 6-pin Pmod ports
  
• DB15HD VGA