Xilinx® Spartan®-3A DSP

Xilinx® Spartan®-3A DSP

Part Number: 12-401-DB42
Device: XC3SD1800A-4FGG676C

The XC3SD1800A-4FGG676C device on the daughter board is a member of the Spartan-3A DSP family of FPGAs. The Spartan-3A DSP provides a low-cost, high-performance DSP solution for high-volume, cost-critical applications.

The entire Spartan-3A DSP family includes two devices offering 1,800,000 and 3,400,000 gates. The XC3SD1800A-4FGG676C offers 1.8 million gates. Table 1 provides an information summary for this device.

XC3SD1800A-4FGG676C features:
Package 676-Ball Fine Pitch Ball Grid Array (FG676)
Speed Grade Standard
Temperature Grade Commercial
Pin Count 676
Maximum User I/O Pins 519 (includes a maximum of 110 Input-only pins)
Max. Differential I/O Pairs 227
System Gates 1,800,000
Xilinx Logic Cells 37,440
CLB Array 4,160 CLBs (88 rows by 48 columns). (1 CLB = 4 Slices, giving 16,640 Slices).
Embedded (Block) RAM 1512K bits
Distributed RAM 260K bits
Embedded Multipliers (18x18) 84 (each 18x18 multiplier is part of an XtremeDSP™ DSP48A slice, which also includes an 18-bit pre-adder, 48-bit post-adder/accumulator and cascade capabilities)
Digital Clock Managers (DCM) 8
Global Clock Resources 16
Configuration Memory Required 8,197,280 bits
On-Chip Termination Support Yes

Additional daughter board features:
  • On-board memories available for use by FPGA design:
    • 256K x 32-bit common-bus SRAM (1MByte)
    • 16M x 32-bit common-bus SDRAM (64MByte)
    • 16M x 16-bit common-bus Flash memory (32MByte)
    • Dual 256K x 16-bit independent SRAM (512KByte each)
  • 1-Wire® memory device used to store board ID and related information
  • Three 100-way connectors for attachment to NB2DSK01 motherboard. These connectors provide:
    • Interface to resources on the NB2DSK01 motherboard and plugged-in peripheral boards
    • SPI bus interface
    • I2C bus interface
    • 1-Wire bus interface
    • JTAG, power and additional control lines from the motherboard.

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Software support

Use of the Spartan-3A DSP daughter board requires the winter 09 release or a later release of Altium Designer installed on your PC.

To implement a design on this FPGA device you will also require the relevant vendor tools. For more information visit Vendor Tools page.

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