====== Spartan-3E Reference Manual ======

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The Spartan-3E Starter Board is retired and no longer for sale in our store.
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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.

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== Download The User Guide ==
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====== Features ======
  * 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