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The Spartan-3E High Volume Starter Kit gives designers instant access to the complete platform capabilities of the Spartan-3E family.

The Spartan®-3E FPGA Starter Kit is a complete development board solution giving designers instant access to the capabilities of the Spartan-3E family. Complete kit includes board, power supply, evaluation software, resource CD (application notes, white papers, data sheets, etc.), and USB cable.

What's Included

  • Development board
  • Universal power supply 100-240V, 50/60 Hz
  • ISE® WebPACK™ software, ISE Foundation™ software evaluation, and the Embedded Development Kit (EDK)
  • Handbook: Introduction to Programmable Logic Design Quick Start
  • Starter Kit resource CD
  • USB cable

Key Features

  • Xilinx Devices: 
    • Spartan-3E FPGA (XC3S500E-4FG320C)
    • CoolRunner™-II CPLD (XC2C64A-5VQ44C)
    • Platform Flash (XCF04S-VO20C)
  • Clocks: 50 MHz crystal clock oscillator
  • Memory: 
    • 128 Mbit Parallel Flash
    • 16 Mbit SPI Flash
    • 64 MByte DDR SDRAM
  • Connectors and Interfaces: 
    • Ethernet 10/100 Phy
    • JTAG USB download
    • Two 9-pin RS-232 serial port
    • PS/2- style mouse/keyboard port, rotary encoder with push button
    • Four slide switches
    • Eight individual LED outputs
    • Four momentary-contact push buttons
    • 100-Pin expansion connection ports 
    • Three 6-pin expansion connectors
  • Display: 16 character - 2 Line LCD

Targeted Applications

  • Markets: Consumer, Telecom/Datacom, Servers, Storage
  • Applications: General Prototyping