Xilinx® Spartan®-3A Evaluation Kit

The Xilinx Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit provides an easy to use, low cost platform for experimenting and prototyping applications based on the Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA family. Designed as an entry level kit, first time FPGA designers will find the board's functions straight forward and practical, while advanced users will appreciate some of the unique capabilities included in the board design.

The Spartan-3A board uses the 400,000 gate 3S400A FPGA from Xilinx. With over 8,000 logic cells available, this FPGA is ideal for exploring general logic designs as well as DSP and MicroBlaze based embedded processing applications. Besides the FPGA, the board also includes a Cypress PSoC Mixed Signal Array which functions as a 'companion chip' to the Spartan-3A. The PSoC device is pre-configured to enable direct programming of the FPGA, SPI Flash memory, and parallel Flash memory through a Windows-based programming application. Spansion SPI and parallel Flash memories are included for FPGA configuration storage, code storage and data file storage. The board's cost optimized power supply from Texas Instruments allows for powering from either a USB port or a 5 V AC/DC wall adapter. Other general purpose peripherals like switches, LEDs, user I/O, and clocks round out the board functions.

Key Features Xilinx XC3S400A-4FTG256C Spartan-3A FPGA Four LEDs Four CapSense™ switches I2C temperature sensor Two 6-pin expansion headers 20 x 2, 0.1-inch user I/O header 32 Mb Spansion® MirrorBit® NOR GL Parallel Flash 128 Mb Spansion MirrorBit SPI FL Serial Flash USB-UART bridge I2C port SPI and BPI configuration Xilinx JTAG interface FPGA configuration via PSoC®

Kit Includes Xilinx Spartan-3A evaluation board ISE® WebPACK® 10.1 DVD USB cable   Windows® programming application Cypress MiniProg Programming Unit Downloadable documentation and reference designs Attached Files Xilinx Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit - Block Diagram Xilinx Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit - Product Brief Additional Information See the product brief for additional information. Get Behind the Wheel of the Xilinx Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit and take a quick video tour to see the kit in action. Click the Behind the Wheel icon to start your drive. Run time: 7 mins   Avnet has organized Technical Forums that help engineers share design ideas, trade example designs, and provide support for potential problems encountered when using Avnet products.

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