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Old Spartan-II demo board from Insight - seeking docs..

Started by Brane2 May 1, 2014
I have dug out an old board with Spartan-II XC2S100 chip and I could use it, if only I could get some documentation for it. 

It looks exactly like this:

https://support.dce.felk.cvut.cz/nms/img/hwzoo/spartan-ii-1.jpg

It has "Insight" and Xilinx logos on it and marking "Spartan II Demo Doard" at the lower edge. Board revision is 3.0, which seems to be important.

I have managed to find some pdf, but it is missing description for a couple jumpers, so it is probably for earlier revisions.



If anyone could post link to some docs, it would be appreciated.
In article <909f22bd-80b3-4ca6-889b-e0798d7563f0@googlegroups.com>,
 Brane2 <brankob@avtomatika.com> writes:
>I have dug out an old board with Spartan-II XC2S100 chip and >I could use it, if only I could get some documentation for it.
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Dne petek, 02. maj 2014 18:31:02 UTC je oseba Hal Murray napisala:
> In article <909f22bd-80b3-4ca6-889b-e0798d7563f0@googlegroups.com>, > > Brane2 writes: > > >I have dug out an old board with Spartan-II XC2S100 chip and > > >I could use it, if only I could get some documentation for it. > > > > How much is your time worth?
At the moment not that much. I need to cobble up some simple interface, but I need to work with TTL so it would be nice to have 5V tolerance. Since it is just one-off and temporary thing, this seems like fastest option, if I get docs. No need to fsck around with PCB design, level converters etc. Just a few wires to and from the boards and that would be it.
On 02/05/2014 00:19, Brane2 wrote:
> I have dug out an old board with Spartan-II XC2S100 chip and I could use it, if only I could get some documentation for it. > > It looks exactly like this: > > https://support.dce.felk.cvut.cz/nms/img/hwzoo/spartan-ii-1.jpg > > It has "Insight" and Xilinx logos on it and marking "Spartan II Demo Doard" at the lower edge. Board revision is 3.0, which seems to be important. > > I have managed to find some pdf, but it is missing description for a couple jumpers, so it is probably for earlier revisions. > > > > If anyone could post link to some docs, it would be appreciated. >
I can't see any docs for V3. As you say there is a V1.2 version here:- http://embebidos-cidetec.com.mx/profesores/jcrls/doctos/usersguide1_2.pdf (you will have to re-jpoin the URL) which seems a good starting point. It has tables mapping the pin numbers the various peripherals.
Dne petek, 02. maj 2014 19:21:04 UTC je oseba Dave napisala:

> which seems a good starting point. It has tables mapping the pin > > numbers the various peripherals.
Yes, I planned to do that. But since I could fuck up something around voltage setting jumpers etc and I don't have spare chip at hand, this would mean more cautious work, which means extra time. Also, board hase extra few bits for various programming options, so I thought to try my luck on the net, if anyone has good pdf. I tried at several places, some of which might have it or even a board or two to spare, so I'll put it aside for a few days. I pulled old Xilinx parallel port configuration cable ( Parallel cable IV) from the same heap and it seems open source Linux driver for it is working, so I have made some progress... ;o) Thanks for your time.