Core3S500E board with XILINX Spartan-3E chip XC3S500E

FPGA core board, features the XILINX Spartan-3E chip XC3S500E onboard Overview Core3S500E is an FPGA core board that features an XC3S500E device onboard, supports further expansion.

* onboard 1pcs XCF04S

* integrated FPGA basic circuit, such as clock circuit

* onboard nCONFIG button, RESET button, 4 x LEDs

* all the I/O ports are accessible on the pin headers

* onboard JTAG debugging/programming interface

* 2.0mm header pitch design, suitable for being plugged-in your application system

What's On Board

* XC3S500E: the XILINX Spartan-3E FPGA device which features:

* Operating Frequency: 50MHz

* Operating Voltage: 1.15V～3.3V

* Package: QFP208

* I/Os: 116

* LEs: 500K

* RAM: 360kb

* DCMs: 4

* Debugging/Programming: supports JTAG

* AMS1117-3.3, 3.3V voltage regulator

* AMS1117-2.5, 2.5V voltage regulator

* AMS1117-1.2, 1.2V voltage regulator

* XCF04S, onboard serial FLASH memory, for storing code

* Power indicator

* LEDs

* FPGA initialization indicator

* Reset button

* nCONFIG button: for re-configuring the FPGA chip, the equivalent of power reseting

* 50M active crystal oscillator

* JTAG interface: for debugging/programming

* FPGA pins expander, VCC, GND and all the I/O ports are accessible on expansion connectors for further expansion

Photos

Note: Core3S500E provides JTAG debugging interface, yet does NOT integrate any debugging function, a debugger is required. Mother board and programmer/debugger in the photos are NOT included in the price.

Debugging/Programming Interface The Core3S500E FPGA core board integrates JTAG interface for programming/debugging.

Development Resources Core3S500E FPGA core board comes with a User Guide CD including development resources listed as below:

* Related software (Xilinx ISE 12 - supports Winxp/Win7, doesn't support Win8)

* Demo code (Verilog, VHDL)

* Schematic (PDF)

* FPGA development documentations

Package Contains

* Core3S500E core board x 1

Wiki: www.waveshare.com/wiki/Core3S500E