Key Components And Features - Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA User Manual

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RS-232 Serial Port Control Option
Optionally, control the demonstration design using a serial port connection to a PC or
workstation. On a PC, use the HyperTerminal program to communicate to the FPGA
application, as shown in
connect the PC's 9-pin RS-232 port to the board's DCE connector, shown in
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When the demonstration design begins operating, it transmits a message using the serial
port.
Press a number key on the PC to load the associated MultiBoot bitstream listed in

Key Components and Features

The key features of the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board are:
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Spartan-3A FPGA Starter Kit Board User Guide
UG330 (v1.3) June 21, 2007
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Figure 1-6: Use HyperTerminal and a Standard Serial Cable to Connect to Board
Xilinx 700K-gate XC3S700A
(FGG484)
4 Mbit Xilinx Platform Flash configuration PROM
64 MByte (512 Mbit) of DDR2 SDRAM, 32Mx16 data interface
4 MByte (32 Mbit) of parallel NOR Flash
FPGA configuration storage
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MicroBlaze code storage/shadowing
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x8 or x16 data interface after configuration
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Two 16 Mbit SPI serial Flash
STMicroelectronics and Atmel DataFlash serial architectures
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FPGA configuration storage
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- Supports single configuration bitstream or multiple MultiBoot configuration
bitstreams
Nonvolatile data storage
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Key Components and Features
1-6. Using a standard, straight-through 9-pin serial cable,
Spartan-3A FPGA in the Pb-free 484-ball BGA package
Figure 7-1,
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