[sdiy] More details on FPGA board

[Eric Brombaugh]

Gorka Garcia wrote:
> The board comes with a built-in USB JTAG emulator, doesn't it? so 
> there are no other tools you need to buy to be able to start working 
> with it. Is that correct?
>   
That's what the documentation and website indicate. From the User's 
Guide, pg 25:
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The Spartan-3E Starter Kit board supports a variety of FPGA 
configuration options:
•   Download FPGA designs directly to the Spartan-3E FPGA via JTAG, 
using the on-
   board USB interface. The on-board USB-JTAG logic also provides in-system
   programming for the on-board Platform Flash PROM and the Xilinx 
XC2C64A CPLD.
   SPI serial Flash and StrataFlash programming are performed separately.
•   Program the on-board 4 Mbit Xilinx XCF04S serial Platform Flash 
PROM, then
   configure the FPGA from the image stored in the Platform Flash PROM 
using Master
   Serial mode.
•   Program the on-board 16 Mbit ST Microelectronics SPI serial Flash 
PROM, then
   configure the FPGA from the image stored in the SPI serial Flash PROM 
using SPI
   mode.
•   Program the on-board 128 Mbit Intel StrataFlash parallel NOR Flash 
PROM, then
   configure the FPGA from the image stored in the Flash PROM using BPI 
Up or BPI
   Down configuration modes. Further, an FPGA application can 
dynamically load two
   different FPGA configurations using the Spartan-3E FPGA’s MultiBoot 
mode. See the
   Spartan-3E data sheet (DS312) for additional details on the MultiBoot 
feature.
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Eric