Xilinx Spartan™-3A DSP XtremeDSP™ Starter Platform

Availability- Americas, Japan and selected countries in Europe and Asia

Low cost, entry-level environment for developing signal processing designs

Evaluate your DSP applications using the versatile XtremeDSP™ Starter Platform powered by the Spartan™-3A DSP 1800A FPGA.

This evaluation platform delivers instant access to Spartan-3A DSP family capabilities and supports industry-standard peripherals, connectors, and interfaces. It is designed for use with the Xilinx System Generator for DSP and ISE™ design tools.

Target signal processing applications in these markets: wireless, automotive, consumer, multimedia, video, imaging, industrial, medical, military/aerospace, servers, storage, and telecom/datacom.

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Key Features

• Xilinx XC3SD1800A-4FGG676C Spartan-3A DSP FPGA
• Clocks
  • 125 MHz LVTTL SMT oscillator
  • LVTTL oscillator socket
  • 25.175 MHz LVTTL SMT oscillator (video clock)
  • 25 MHz Ethernet clock (accessible to FPGA)
• Memory
  • 128M x 32-bit DDR2 SDRAM
  • 16M x 8 parallel / BPI configuration Flash
  • 64Mb SPI configuration/storage Flash (with 4 extra SPI selects)
• Interfaces
  • 10/100/1000 PHY
  • JTAG programming/configuration port
  • RS-232 serial port
  • Low-cost VGA
  • 4 SPI select lines
• Buttons and switches
  • 8 LEDs
  • 8-position DIP switch
  • 4 push-button switches
  • Reset push-button switch
• User I/O and expansion
  • Digilent 6-pin header (2)
  • EXP expansion connector (2)
  • 30-pin BPIO connector - can be used for SystemACE compact Flash daughtercard (not included)
• Configuration and Debug
  • JTAG
  • System ACE module connector
  • Eridon debug connector (SATA)

Target Applications

• General prototyping
• Embedded processing
• Digital video
• DSP
• DSP and image processing
• Digital communications
• Co-processing