
Preface: About This Guide
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Acknowledgments
Xilinx wishes to thank the following companies for their support of the Spartan-3A Starter
Kit board:
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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
Guide Contents
This manual contains the following chapters:
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the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
knobs present on the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
the FPGA on the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
screen.
mouse and keyboard port.
D/A converter.
converter with a programmable gain pre-amplifier.
STMicroelectronics parallel NOR PROM.
memory interface.
memory interface.
the 10/100Base-T Ethernet physical layer interface.
the Spartan-3A Starter Kit board.
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Spartan-3A Start Kit Board User Guide
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