Rs-232 Serial Port Control Option; Key Components And Features - Xilinx Spartan-3A User Manual

R
Using one or two external multimeters, measure the corresponding difference in current
consumption, as described in
139.

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 (see
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 or the Spartan-3AN Starter Kit board
are:
•
•
•
•
•
Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit Board User Guide
UG334 (v1.0) May 28, 2007
Caution!
Do not set the SUSPEND switch to "SUSPEND" while programming the parallel NOR
Flash PROM using configuration bitstream #4, as described in
Figure
Figure 1-6: Use HyperTerminal and a Standard Serial Cable to Connect to Board
Spartan-3A Starter Kit Board: Xilinx 700K-gate XC3S700A
Pb-free 484-ball BGA package (FGG484)
Spartan-3AN Starter Kit Board: Xilinx 700K-gate XC3S700AN
nonvolatile FPGA in the Pb-free 484-ball BGA package (FGG484)
♦
Internal 8 Mbit In-System Flash memory
♦
Store FPGA configuration bitstream or nonvolatile data
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
www.xilinx.com
"Measuring Power Across Voltage Supply Jumpers," page
1-6. Using a standard, straight-through 9-pin serial cable,
Key Components and Features
Table 1-2.
Figure 7-1, page
UG334_c1_06_052707
Table
Spartan-3A FPGA
Spartan-3AN
63).
1-2.
in the
19