[Gb-ccb] Alternative Spartan-3 development board

[Richard Lacasse]

Martin,

This looks very good.  It has a USB port built in.  You can probably try 
configuring it via USB once you get the JTAG method working.

Rich

Martin Shepherd wrote:

> I have found an potential alternative Xilinx Spartan-3 development
> board, from Memec Design, costing $195.
> 
> This is the "Spartan-3 LC" development kit, and has part number
> DS-KIT-3SLC400-PAK. It is listed at:
> 
>  http://legacy.memec.com/devkits/americas.shtml
> 
> where you will find it under the Spartan-3 heading. Note that the same
> part number is listed later on in the same web page under the
> MicroBlaze heading, where it costs a lot more. This is because the
> latter reference includes extra development software (that we don't
> want).
> 
> The product brief for the board can be found at:
> 
>  http://www.insight.na.memec.com/Memec/iplanet/link1/Spartan3LC_2.pdf
> 
> This board contains a 400K gate, 208-pin flatpack Spartan-3 FPGA,
> which is probably the same chip that we are planning to use in the
> CCB.
> 
> Martin
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