Preface: About This Guide; Acknowledgments; Guide Contents - Xilinx Spartan-3A User Manual

Preface: About This Guide

Acknowledgments

Xilinx wishes to thank the following companies for their support of the Spartan-3A/3AN
Starter Kit board:
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Guide Contents

This manual contains the following chapters:
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STMicroelectronics for the 32 Mbit parallel NOR Flash and 16 Mbit SPI serial Flash
memories
Atmel for the 16 Mbit SPI serial DataFlash memory
Linear Technology for the SPI-compatible A/D and D/A converters and the
programmable pre-amplifier
SMSC for the 10/100 Ethernet PHY
National Semiconductor for the four-rail voltage regulators that power the FPGA and
and all peripheral components
Xilinx, Inc. Configuration Solutions Division for the XCF04S Platform Flash PROM
and support for the embedded USB programmer
Chapter 1, "Introduction and Overview,"
the Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board.
Chapter 2, "Switches, Buttons, and Rotary Knob,"
knobs present on the Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board.
Chapter 3, "Clock Sources,"
Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board.
Chapter 4, "FPGA Configuration Options,"
the FPGA on the Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board.
Chapter 5, "Character LCD Screen,"
screen.
Chapter 6, "VGA Display Port,"
Chapter 7, "RS-232 Serial Ports,"
Chapter 8, "PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port,"
mouse and keyboard port.
Chapter 10, "Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC),"
D/A converter.
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provides an overview of the key features of
defines the switches, buttons, and
describes the various clock sources available on the
describes the configuration options for
describes the functionality of the character LCD
describes the functionality of the VGA port.
describes the functionality of the RS-232 serial ports.
describes the functionality of the PS/2
describes the functionality of the
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