Spartan-3E Start Kit Board User Guide www.xilinx.com 9UG230 (v1.0) March 9, 2006RPrefaceAbout This GuideThis user guide provides basic information on the Spartan-3E Starter Kit boardcapabilities, functions, and design. It includes general information on how to use thevarious peripheral functions included on the board. For detailed reference designs,including VHDL or Verilog source code, please visit the following web link.• Spartan™-3E Starter Kit Board Reference Pagehttp://www.xilinx.com/s3estarterAcknowledgementsXilinx wishes to thank the following companies for their support of the Spartan-3E StarterKit board:• Intel Corporation for the 128 Mbit StrataFlash memory• Linear Technology for the SPI-compatible A/D and D/A converters, theprogrammable pre-amplifier, and the power regulators for the non-FPGAcomponents• Micron Technology, Inc. for the 32M x 16 DDR SDRAM• SMSC for the 10/100 Ethernet PHY• STMicroelectronics for the 16M x 1 SPI serial Flash PROM• Texas Instruments Incorporated for the three-rail TPS75003 regulator supplying mostof the FPGA supply voltages• Xilinx, Inc. Configuration Solutions Division for the XCF04S Platform Flash PROMand their support for the embedded USB programmer• Xilinx, Inc. CPLD Division for the XC2C64A CoolRunner™-II CPLDGuide ContentsThis manual contains the following chapters:• Chapter 1, “Introduction and Overview,” provides an overview of the key features ofthe Spartan-3E Starter Kit board.• Chapter 2, “Switches, Buttons, and Knob,” defines the switches, buttons, and knobspresent on the Spartan-3E Starter Kit board.• Chapter 3, “Clock Sources,” describes the various clock sources available on theSpartan-3E Starter Kit board.• Chapter 4, “FPGA Configuration Options,” describes the configuration options forthe FPGA on the Spartan-3E Starter Kit board.
