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

[Brane2]

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.

 

[Brane2]

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.

 

[Brane2]

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.

 

[Hal Murray]

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.

How much is your time worth?

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[Dave]

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.