FPGA messing arounding

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Looks&Sees

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  the board i scored

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  JTAG cable schematic

Board specifics;

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What

So, I scored a FPGA board with a XC3S200 chip and some parport JTAG cable from http://www.ebay.com/sch/fpga.store/m.html .

This project is mostly a scratchpad for what I have done.

Links

The Xilinx website offers downloads teh plenty, european downloadspeeds crappy though;

• http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/design-tools.html

These files were offered by the seller of the board;

• http://sdrv.ms/VGxjXE

• http://www.xess.com/appnotes/FpgasNowWhatBook.pdf
• http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/FPGA_course

• http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/

• http://www.freerangefactory.org/site/pmwiki.php/Main/Software