Introduction And Overview - Xilinx MicroBlaze Spartan-3E 1600E Edition User Manual

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Introduction and Overview

Thank you for purchasing the Xilinx MicroBlaze™ Development Kit Spartan™-3E 1600E
Edition. You will find it useful in developing your Spartan-3E FPGA application.
Choose the Starter Kit Board for Your Needs
Depending on specific requirements, choose the Xilinx development board that best suits
your needs.
Spartan-3E FPGA Features and Embedded Processing Functions
The MicroBlaze Development Kit board highlights the unique features of the Spartan-3E
FPGA family and provides a convenient development board for embedded processing
applications. The board highlights these features:
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Learning Xilinx FPGA, CPLD, and ISE Development Software Basics
The MicroBlaze Development Kit board is more advanced and complex compared to other
Spartan development boards.
Advanced Spartan-3 Generation Development Boards
The MicroBlaze Development Kit board demonstrates the basic capabilities of the
MicroBlaze embedded processor and the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK). For
more advanced development on a board with additional peripherals and FPGA logic,
consider the V4 FX12 Board:
MicroBlaze Development Kit Spartan-3E 1600 Edition User Guide
UG257 (v1.1) December 5, 2007
Spartan-3E specific features
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Parallel NOR Flash configuration
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MultiBoot FPGA configuration from Parallel NOR Flash PROM
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SPI serial Flash configuration
Embedded development
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MicroBlaze 32-bit embedded RISC processor
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PicoBlaze™ 8-bit embedded controller
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DDR memory interfaces
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10-100 Ethernet
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UART
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