Guide Contents - Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA User Manual

Preface: About This Guide
Acknowledgments
Xilinx wishes to thank the following companies for their support of the Spartan-3A 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 Starter Kit board.
Chapter 2, "Switches, Buttons, and Rotary Knob,"
knobs present on the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
Chapter 3, "Clock Sources,"
Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
Chapter 4, "FPGA Configuration Options,"
the FPGA on the Spartan-3A 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 9, "Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC),"
D/A converter.
Chapter 10, "Analog Capture Circuit,"
converter with a programmable gain pre-amplifier.
Chapter 11, "Parallel NOR Flash PROM,"
STMicroelectronics parallel NOR PROM.
Chapter 12, "SPI Serial Flash,"
memory interface.
Chapter 13, "DDR2 SDRAM,"
memory interface.
Chapter 14, "10/100 Ethernet Physical Layer Interface,"
the 10/100Base-T Ethernet physical layer interface.
Chapter 15, "Expansion Connectors,"
the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
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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
describes the functionality of the A/D
describes the functionality of the
describes the functionality of the SPI Serial Flash
describes the functionality of the DDR2 SDRAM
describes the various connectors available on
Spartan-3A Start Kit Board User Guide
describes the functionality of
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