10 MicroBlaze Development Kit Spartan-3E 1600 Edition User Guide
www.xilinx.com UG257 (v1.1) December 5, 2007
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
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Key Components and Features
The key features of the MicroBlaze Development Kit board are:
x Xilinx XC3S1600E Spartan-3E FPGA
i Up to 250
i user-I/O pins
i 320-pin FBGA package
i Over 33,000 logic cells
x Two Xilinx 4 Mbit Platform Flash configuration PROM
x Xilinx 64-macrocell XC2C64A CoolRunner CPLD
x 64 MByte (512 Mbit) of DDR SDRAM, x16 data interface, 100+ MHz
x 16 MByte (128 Mbit) of parallel NOR Flash (Intel StrataFlash)
i FPGA configuration storage
i MicroBlaze code storage/shadowing
x 16 Mbits of SPI serial Flash (STMicro)
i FPGA configuration storage
i MicroBlaze code shadowing
x 2 x 16 LCD display screen
x PS/2 mouse or keyboard port
x VGA display port
x 10/100 Ethernet PHY (requires Ethernet MAC in FPGA)
x Two 9-pin RS-232 ports (DTE- and DCE-style)
x On-board USB-based FPGA/CPLD download/debug interface
x 50 MHz and 66 MHz clock oscillators
x SHA-1 1-wire serial EEPROM for bitstream copy protection
x Hirose FX2 expansion connector with 40-user I/O
x Three Digilent 6-pin expansion connectors
x Four-output, SPI-based Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
x Two-input, SPI-based Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with programmable-gain
pre-amplifier
x ChipScope™ SoftTouch debugging port
x Rotary-encoder with push-button shaft
x Eight discrete LEDs
x Four slide switches
x Four push-button switches
x SMA clock input