Spartan-6 FPGA Embedded Kit

Product Details

• Virtex-6-Spartan-6 Embedded Product Brief (PDF)
• Spartan-6 Embedded Kit Demo
• Signup for Product Updates
• Upgrade to Domain Specific kits

Documentation

• Spartan-6 Embedded Kit Documentation
• Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 FPGA Embedded Kit FAQ (PDF)
• Targeted Reference Design Whitepaper (PDF)

Device Family Support

• Spartan-6 LXT

Based on the Spartan®-6 LX45T FPGA, the Spartan-6 FPGA Embedded Kit contains an extensible development board and the key design tools and IP needed for efficient embedded application development. The pre-verified reference designs and tutorials will jump-start your development. Software developers can get started in a familiar Eclipse IDE without using the FPGA hardware design tools.

What's Included

Boards

• ROHS compliant SP605 Base Board including the XC6SLX45T-FGG484 -3 FPGA

Tools & IP

• ISE® Design Suite: Embedded Edition (Device-locked to the Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA)
  • Embedded Development Kit (EDK) 
    • Platform Studio (XPS) 
    • Software Development Kit (SDK) (Eclipse-IDE) 
    • MicroBlaze™ Soft Processor Core

Targeted Reference Design(s) and Demo(s)

• MicroBlaze Processor Sub-System design that integrates the following key Embedded processing IP:
  • 32-bit MicroBlaze Soft Processor
    • Integrated Memory Management Unit (MMU)
    • 16KB Instruction & Data Caches
    • JTAG Debug interface
    • 100Mhz clock frequency
• Memory
  • Multi-Port Memory Controller (MPMC) connected to 128 MB of 800 Mbps DDR3 memory
  • Flash memory controllers connected to 32Mbytes of NOR Flash memory
• High-Performance I/O Peripherals
  • Evaluation version of Gigabit Ethernet (Tri-Mode Ethernet MAC – TEMAC)
  • UART 16550
  • I2C, SPI – Serial Interface IP
  • General Purpose Parallel I/O
• Infrastructure IP
  • Dual 32-bit Timers
  • Interrupt Controller
  • Bus infrastructure, Clock and Reset Management IP

Documentation

• Hardware Setup Guide
• Getting Started Guide
• Hardware Development Tutorial
• Software Development Tutorial
• MicroBlaze Processor Sub-system datasheet

Cables & Adapters

• Universal 12V power supply
• Two USB cables – for JTAG download/debug and UART communication  
• One Ethernet cable – for host communication
• One DVI-VGA adapter  - standard interface for video display

Additional Materials

• Ecosystem OS/RTOS Support 
  • Linux, uC/OS-II, Treck
• All reference designs, demos, and documents are delivered on a USB stick.

Key Features

• Targeted Reference Design – MicroBlaze Processor Sub-System
• Includes all the development tools needed to support Embedded Hardware & Software Development
• In-depth step-by-step Hardware and Software Tutorials
• Strong Ecosystem support

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Xilinx offers a 90-day limited warranty on this product. See Limited Warranty for detailed information.