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Xilinx Spartan3E-100 CP132

VGA Port

Platform

Flash

(config ROM)

Settable Clock

Source

(25 / 50 / 100 MHz)

Full Speed USB2 Port

(JTAG and data transfers)

JA JB JC JD

JTAG port

I/O Devices

PS/2

Port

Pmod Connectors

8 bit

color

Data port

Introduction

The Basys2 board is a circuit design and implementation platform that anyone can use to gain experience building real digital circuits. Built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E Field Programmable Gate Array and a Atmel AT90USB2 USB controller, the Basys2 board provides complete, ready-to-use hardware suitable for hosting circuits ranging from basic logic devices to complex controllers. A large collection of on-board I/O devices and all required FPGA support circuits are included, so countless designs can be created without the need for any other components.

Four standard expansion connectors allow designs to grow beyond the Basys2 board using breadboards, user-designed circuit boards, or Pmods (Pmods are inexpensive analog and digital I/O modules that offer A/D & D/A conversion, motor drivers, sensor inputs, and many other features). Signals on the 6-pin connectors are protected against ESD damage and short-circuits, ensuring a long operating life in any environment. The Basys2 board works seamlessly with all versions of the Xilinx ISE tools, including the free WebPack. It ships with a USB cable that provides power and a programming interface, so no other power supplies or programming cables are required.

The Basys2 board can draw power and be programmed via its on-board USB2 port. Digilent’s freely available PC-based Adept software automatically detects the Basys2 board, provides a programming interface for the FPGA and Platform Flash ROM, and allows user data transfers (see

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for more information).

The Basys2 board is designed to work with the free ISE WebPack CAD software from Xilinx. WebPack can be used to define circuits using schematics or HDLs, to simulate and synthesize circuits, and to create programming files. Webpack can be downloaded free of charge from

www.xilinx.com/ise/

The Basys2 board ships with a built-in self-test/demo stored in its ROM that can be used to test all

board features. To run the test, set the Mode Jumper (see below) to ROM and apply board power. If the test is erased from the ROM, it can be downloaded and reinstalled at any time. See

www.digilentinc.com/Basys2

for the test project as well as further documentation, reference designs,

and tutorials.

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• 100,000-gate Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA

• Atmel AT90USB2 Full-speed USB2 port providing board pow er

and programming/data transfer interface

• Xilinx Platform Flash ROM to store FPGA configurations

• 8 LEDs, 4-digit 7-segment display, 4 buttons, 8 slide switches

• PS/2 port and 8-bit VGA port

• User-settable clock (25/50/100MHz), plus socket for 2nd clock

• Four 6-pin header expansion connectors

• ESD and short-circuit protection on all I/O signals.

Figure 1. Basys2 board block diagram and features

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Board Power The Basys2 board is typically powered from a USB cable, but a

battery connector is also provided so that external supplies can be used. To use USB power, simply attach the USB cable. To power the Basys2 using a battery or other external source, attach a 3.5V-

5.5V battery pack (or other power source) to the 2-pin, 100-mil spaced battery connector (three AA cells in series make a good

4.5+/- volt supply). Voltages higher than 5.5V on either power connector may cause permanent damage.

Input power is routed through the power switch (SW8) to the four 6-pin expansion connectors and to a Linear Technology LTC3545 voltage regulator. The LTC3545 produces the main 3.3V supply for the board, and it also produces 2.5V and 1.2V supply voltages

Figure 2. Basys2 power circuits

required by the FPGA. Total board current is dependent on FPGA configuration, clock frequency, and external connections. In test circuits with roughly 20K gates routed, a 50MHz clock source, and all LEDs illuminated, about 100mA of current is drawn from the

1.2V supply, 50mA from the 2.5V supply, and 50mA from the 3.3V supply. Required current will increase if larger circuits are configured in the FPGA, or if peripheral boards are attached.

The Basys2 board uses a four layer PCB, with the inner layers dedicated to VCC and GND planes. The FPGA and the other ICs on the board have large complements of ceramic bypass capacitors placed as close as possible to each VCC pin, resulting in a very clean, low-noise power supply.

Configuration

After power-on, the FPGA on the Basys2 board must be configured before it can perform any useful functions. During configuration, a “bit” file is transferred into memory cells within the FPGA to define the logical functions and circuit interconnects. The free ISE/WebPack CAD software from Xilinx can be used to create bit files from VHDL, Verilog, or schematic-based source files.

Digilent’s PC-based program called Adept can be used to configure the FPGA with any suitable bit file stored on the computer. Adept uses the USB cable to transfer a selected bit file from the PC to the FPGA (via the FPGA’s JTAG programming port). Adept can also program a bit file into an on-board non-volatile ROM called “Platform Flash”. Once programmed, the Platform Flash can automatically transfer a stored bit file to the FPGA at a subsequent power-on or reset event if the Mode Jumper (JP3) is set to ROM. The FPGA will remain configured until it is reset by a power-cycle event. The Platform Flash ROM will retain a bit file until it is reprogrammed, regardless of power-cycle events.

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Spartan-

FPGA

CLK_OUT

Linear Tech.

LTC

6905

Oscillator

Frequency Select Jumper

25MHz

50MHz

100MHz

Figure 5. Basys2 oscillator circuits

XCF

Platform

Flash

JTAG

Spartan 3E

FPGA

Mode

Jumper

PC ROM

USB miniB

connector

Atmel

AT90USB2

Slave serial port

JTAG port

LD8

To program the Basys2 board, set the mode jumper to PC and attach the USB cable to the board. Start the Adept software, and wait for the FPGA and the Platform Flash ROM to be recognized. Use the browse function to associate the desired .bit file with the FPGA, and/or the desired .mcs file with the Platform Flash ROM. Right-click o n the device to be programmed, and select the “program” function. The configuration file will be sent to the FPGA or Platform Flash, and the software will indicate whether programming was successful. The “Status LED” LED (LD_8) will also blink after the FPGA has been successfully configured. For further information on using Adept, please see the Adept documentation available at the Digilent website.

Oscillators

The Basys2 board includes a primary, user-settable silicon oscillator that produces 25MHz, 50MHz, or 100MHz based on the position of the clock select jumper at JP4. Initially, this jumper is not loaded and must be soldered in place. A socket for a second oscillator is provided at IC6 (the IC6 socket can accommodate any 3.3V CMOS oscillator in a half-size DIP package). The primary and secondary oscillators are connected to global clock input pins at pin B8 and pin M6 respectively.

Both clock inputs can drive the clock synthesizer DLL on the Spartan 3E, allowing for a wide range if internal frequencies, from 4 times the input frequency to any integer divisor of the input frequency.

The primary silicon oscillator is flexible and inexpensive, but it lacks the frequency stability of a crystal oscillator. Some circuits that drive a VGA monitor may realize a slight improvement in image stability by using a crystal oscillator installed in the IC6 socket. For these applications, a 25MHz (or 50MHz) crystal oscillator, available from any catalog distributor, is recommended (see for example part number SG-8002JF-PCC at

www.digikey.com

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Figure 4. Basys2 Programming Circuits

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3.3V

Push

buttons

Slide

switches

Spartan 3E

FPGA

C11

G12

K3 B4 G3 F3 E2

BTN0

BTN1

BTN2

BTN3

SW0

SW1

SW2

SW3

SW4

SW5

SW6

SW7

3.3V

LD0 LD1 LD2 LD3 LD4 LD5 LD6 LD7

3.3V

LEDs

7seg Display

AN0

AN1

AN2

AN3

P11

M11

P7 P6 N5 N4 P4

F12

J12

M13

K14

L14 H12 N14 N11 P12

L13

M12

CA CB CC CD CE CF CG DP

N13

User I/O

Four pushbuttons and eight slide switches are provided for circuit inputs. Pushbutton inputs are normally low and driven high only when the pushbutton is pressed. Slide switches generate constant high or low inputs depending on position. Pushbuttons and slide switches all have series resistors for protection against short circuits (a short circuit would occur if an FPGA pin assigned to a pushbutton or slide switch was inadvertently defined as an output).

Eight LEDs and a four-digit sevensegment LED display are provided for circuit outputs. LED anodes are driven from the FPGA via current-limiting resistors, so they will illuminate when a logic ‘1’ is written to the corresponding FPGA pin. A ninth LED is provided as a power-indicator LED, and a tenth LED (LD-D) illuminates any time the FPGA has been successfully programmed.

Seven-segment display

Each of the four digits of the sevensegment LED display is composed of seven LED segments arranged in a “figure 8” pattern. Segment LEDs can be individually illuminated, so any one of 128 patterns can be displayed on a digit by illuminating certain LED segments and leaving the others dark. Of these 128 possible patterns, the ten corresponding to the decimal digits are the most usef ul.

The anodes of the seven LEDs forming each digit are tied together into one common anode circuit node, but the LED cathodes remain separate. The common anode signals are available as four “digit enable” input signals to the 4-digit display. The cathodes of similar segments on all four displays are connected into seven circuit nodes labeled CA through CG (so, for example, the four “D” cathodes from the four digits are grouped together into a single circuit node called “CD”). These seven cathode signals are available as inputs to the 4-digit display. This signal connection scheme creates a multiplexed display, where the cathode signals are common to all digits but they can only illuminate the segments of the digit whose corresponding anode signal is asserted.

A scanning display controller circuit can be used to show a four-digit number on this display. This circuit drives the anode signals and corresponding cathode patterns of each digit in a repeating, continuous succession, at an update rate that is faster than the human eye response. Each digit is illuminated just one-quarter of the time, but because the eye cannot perceive the darkening of a digit before it is illuminated again, the digit appears continuously illuminated. If the update or “refresh” rate is slowed to a given point (around 45 hertz), then most people will begin to see the display flicker.

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Figure 6. Basys2 I/O circuits

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AN0 AN1 AN

AN3

Cathodes

Digit 0

Refresh period = 1ms to 16ms

Digit period = Refresh

/ 4

Digit

1 Digit 2 Digit 3

Common anode

Individual cathodes

AN1 AN2 AN3 AN4

CA CB CC CD CE CF CG DP

Four-digit Seven

Segment Display

An un-illuminated seven-segment display, and nine illumination patterns corresponding to decimal digits

For each of the four digits to appear bright and continuously illuminated, all four digits should be driven once every 1 to 16ms (for a refresh frequency of 1KHz to 60Hz). For example, in a 60Hz refresh scheme, the entire display would be refreshed once every 16ms, and each digit would be illuminated for ¼ of the refresh cycle, or 4ms. The controller must assure that the correct cathode pattern is present when the corresponding anode signal is driven. To illustrate the process, if AN1 is asserted while CB and CC are asserted, then a “1” will be displayed in digit position 1. Then, if AN2 is asserted while CA, CB and CC are asserted, then a “7” will be displayed in digit position 2. If A1 and CB, CC are driven for 4ms, and then A2 and CA, CB, CC are driven for 4ms in an endless succession, the display will show “17” in the first two digits. Figure 8 shows an example timing diagram for a four-digit seven-segment controller.

PS/2 Port

The 6-pin mini-DIN connector can accommodate a PS/2 mouse or keyboard. The PS/2 connector is supplied with 5VDC.

Both the mouse and keyboard use a two-wire serial bus (clock and data) to communicate with a host device. Both use 11-bit words that include a start, stop and odd parity bit, but the data packets are organized differently, and the keyboard interface allows bi-directional data transfers (so the host device can illuminate state LEDs on the keyboard). Bus timings are shown in the figure. The clock and data signals are only driven when data transfers occur, and otherwise they are held in the “idle” state at logic ‘1’. The timings define signal requirements for mouse-to-host communications and bi-directional keyboard communications. A PS/2 interface circuit can be implemented in the FPGA to create a keyboard or mouse interface.

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Figure 7. Seven-segment display

Figure 8. Multiplexed 7seg display timing

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Clock time Data-

to-clock setup time

30us

5us

50us 25

Symbol Parameter Min Max

HLD

Clock-to-

data hold time 5us 25us

Edge 0

‘0

’ start bit ‘1’ stop bit

Edge 10

Tsu

hld

Tck Tck

Pin1: Data Pin2: Data Pin3: GND Pin5: Vdd Pin6: Clock Pin8: Clock

1 35

8 6

(bottom up)

Spartan

FPGA

CLK

DATA

mini-

DIN

200 Ω

Figure 9. PS/2 connector and Basys2 PS/2 circuit

Keyboard The keyboard uses open-collector drivers so the

keyboard or an attached host device can drive the two-wire bus ( if the host device will not send data to the keyboard, then the host can use input-only ports).

PS2-style keyboards use scan codes to communicate key press data. Each key is assigned a code that is sent whenever the key is pressed; if the key is held down, the scan code will be sent repeatedly about once every 100ms. When a key is released, a “F0” key-up code is sent, followed by the scan code of the released key. If a key can be “shifted” to produce a new character (like a capital letter), then a shift character is sent in addition to the scan code, and the host must determine which ASCII character to use. Some keys, called extended keys, send an “E0” ahead of the scan code (and they may send more than one scan code). When an extended key is released, an “E0 F0” key-up code is sent, followed by the scan code. Scan codes for most keys are shown in the figure. A host device can also send data to the keyboard. Below is a short list of some common commands a host might send.

ED Set Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock LEDs. Keyboard returns “FA” after receiving “ED”,

then host sends a byte to set LED status: Bit 0 sets Scroll Lock; bit 1 sets Num Lock; and Bit 2

sets Caps lock. Bits 3 to 7 are ignored. EE Echo (test). Keyboard returns “EE” after receiving “EE”. F3 Set scan code repeat rate. Keyboard returns “F3” on receiving “FA”, then host sends second

byte to set the repeat rate. FE Resend. “FE” directs keyboard to re-send most recent scan code. FF Reset . Resets the keyboard.

The keyboard can send data to the host only when both the data and clock lines are high (or idle). Since the host is the “bus master”, the keyboard must check to see whether the host is sending data before driving the bus. To facilitate this, the clock line is used as a “clear to send” signal. If the host pulls the clock line low, the keyboard must not send any data until the clock is released.

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Figure 10. PS/2 signal timing

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Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y7 P1 0 1 00 11

Idle state

Start bit

Mouse status byte X direction byte

Y direction byte

Stop bit Start bit

Stop bit

Idle state

Stop bit Start bit

The keyboard sends data to the host in 11-bit words that contain a ‘0’ start bit, followed by 8-bits of scan code (LSB first), followed by an odd parity bit and terminated with a ‘1’ stop bit. The keyboard generates 11 clock transitions (at around 20 - 30KHz) when the data is sent, and data is valid on the falling edge of the clock.

Figure 11. Keyboard scan codes

Mouse The mouse outputs a clock and data signal when it is moved; otherwise, these signals remain at logic

‘1’. Each time the mouse is moved, three 11-bit words are sent from the mouse to the host device. Each of the 11-bit words contains a ‘0’ start bit, followed by 8 bits of data (LSB first), followed by an odd parity bit, and terminated with a ‘1’ stop bit. Thus, each data transmission contains 33 bits, where bits 0, 11, and 22 are ‘0’ start bits, and bits 11, 21, and 33 are ‘1’ stop bits. The three 8-bit data fields contain movement data as shown in the figure above. Data is valid at the falling edge of the clock, and the clock period is 20 to 30KHz.

The mouse assumes a relative coordinate system wherein moving the mouse to the right generates a positive number in the X field, and moving to the left generates a negative number. Likewise, moving the mouse up generates a positive number in the Y field, and moving down represents a negative number (the XS and YS bits in the status byte are the sign bits – a ‘1’ indicates a negative number). The magnitude of the X and Y numbers represent the rate of mouse movement – the larger the number, the faster the mouse is moving (the XV and YV bits in the status byte are movement overflow indicators – a ‘1’ means overflow has occurred). If the mouse moves continuously, the 33-bit transmissions are repeated every 50ms or so. The L and R fields in the status byte indicate Left and Right button presses (a ‘1’ indicates the button is being pressed).

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Figure 12. Mouse data format

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C14

Spartan 3E

FPGA

HD-DB15

D13

F13

J14

K13

2KΩ 1KΩ 510Ω

200Ω 200Ω

Pin 1: Red Pin 2: Grn Pin 3: Blue Pin 13: HS Pin 14: VS

Pin 5: GND Pin 6: Red GND Pin 7: Grn GND Pin 8: Blu GND Pin 10: Sync GND

RED0 RED1 RED2

F14 G13 G14

2KΩ 1KΩ 510Ω

GRN0 GRN1 GRN2

H13

J13

1KΩ 510Ω

BLUE0 BLUE1

RED GRN BLU

HS VS

Anode (entire screen)

High voltage

supply (>20kV)

Deflection coils

Grid

Electron guns (Red, Blue, Green)

gun

control

grid

control

deflection

control

R,G,B signals (to guns)

Cathode ray tube

Cathode ray

VGA cable

VGA Port

The Basys2 board uses 10 FPGA signals to create a VGA port with 8-bit color and the two standard sync signals (HS – Horizontal Sync, and VS – Vertical Sync). The color signals use resistor-divider circuits that work in conjunction with the 75-ohm termination resistance of the VGA display to create eight signal levels on the red and green VGA signals, and four on blue (the human eye is less sensitive to blue levels). This circuit, shown in figure 13, produces video color signals that proceed in equal increments between 0V (fully off) and 0.7V (fully on). A video controller circuit must be created in the FPGA to drive the sync and color signals with the correct timing in order to produce a working display system.

VGA System Timing

VGA signal timings are specified, published, copyrighted and sold by the VESA organization (www.vesa.org). The following VGA system timing information is provided as an example of how a VGA monitor might be driven in 640 by 480 mode. For more precise information, or for information on other VGA frequencies, refer to documentation available at the VESA website.

CRT-based VGA displays use amplitude-modulated moving electron beams (or cathode rays) to display information on a phosphor-coated screen. LCD displays use an array of switches that can impose a voltage across a small amount of liquid crystal, thereby changing light permittivity through the crystal on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Although the following description is limited to CRT displays, LCD displays have evolved to use the same signal timings as CRT displays (so the “signals” discussion below pertains to both CRTs and LCDs). Color CRT displays use three electron beams (one for red, one for blue, and one for green) to energize the phosphor that coats the inner side of the display end of a cathode ray tube (see illustration). Electron beams emanate from “electron guns” which are finely-pointed heated cathodes placed in close proximity to a positively charged annular plate called a “grid”. The electrostatic force imposed by the grid pulls rays of energized electrons from the cathodes, and those rays are fed by the current that flows into the cathodes. These particle rays are initially accelerated towards the grid, but they soon fall under the influence of the much larger electrostatic force that results from the

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Figure 13. VGA pin definitions and Basys2 circuit

Figure 14. CRT deflection system

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Current waveform through horizontal defletion coil

Stable current ramp - information is displayed during this time

Retrace - no information displayed during this time

Total horizontal time

Horizontal display time

Horizontal sync signal sets retrace frequency

retrace

time

"back porch""front porch"

Display Surface

640 pixels per row are displayed during forward beam trace

pixel 0,639

pixel 0,0

pixel 479,0 pixel 479,639

entire phosphor-coated display surface of the CRT being charged to 20kV (or more). The rays are focused to a fine beam as they pass through the center of the grids, and then they accelerate to impact on the phosphor-coated display surface. The phosphor surface glows brightly at the impact point, and it continues to glow for several hundred microseconds after the beam is removed. The larger the current fed into the cathode, the brighter the phosphor will glow.

Between the grid and the display surface, the beam passes through the neck of the CRT where two coils of wire produce orthogonal electromagnetic fields. Because cathode rays are composed of charged particles (electrons), they can be deflected by these magnetic fields. Current waveforms are passed through the coils to produce magnetic fields that interact with the cathode rays and cause them to transverse the display surface in a “raster” pattern, horizontally from left to right and vertically from top to bottom. As the cathode ray moves over the surface of the display, the current sent to the electron guns can be increased or decreased to change the brightness of the display at the cathode ray impact point.

Information is only displayed when the beam is moving in the “forward” direction (left to right and top to bottom), and not during the time the beam is reset back to the left or top edge of the display. Much of the potential display time is therefore lost in “blanking” periods when the beam is reset and stabilized to begin a new horizontal or vertical display pass. The size of the beams, the frequency at which the beam can be traced across the display, and the frequency at which the electron beam can be modulated determine the display resolution. Modern VGA displays can accommodate different resolutions, and a VGA controller circuit dictates the resolution by producing timing signals to control the raster patterns. The controller must produce synchronizing pulses at 3.3V (or 5V) to set the frequency at which current flows through the deflection coils, and it must ensure that video data is applied to the electron guns at the correct time. Raster video displays define a number of “rows” that corresponds to the number of horizontal passes the cathode makes over the display area, and a number of “columns” that corresponds to an area on each row that is assigned to one “picture element” or pixel. Typical displays use from 240 to 1200 rows and from 320 to 1600 columns. The overall size of a display and the number of rows and columns determines the size of each pixel.

Video data typically comes from a video refresh memory, with one or more bytes assigned to each pixel location (the Basys2 uses three bits per pixel). The controller must index into video memory as the beams move across the display, and retrieve and apply video data to the display at precisely the time the electron beam is moving across a given pixel.

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Figure 15. VGA system signals

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disp

Sync pulse Display time Pulse width Front porch Back porch

.36

320

928

416,

800

384

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600

,000

200

521 480

2 10 29

Symbol Parameter

Time

Clocks Lines

Vertical Sync

32 us

84 us

640

92 us

800 640 96 16 48

Clks

Horiz

. Sync

Time

Figure 16. VGA system timings for 640x480 display

Horizontal

Counter

Zero

Detect

3.84us Detect

Horizontal

Synch

Set

Reset

Vertical

Counter

Zero

Detect

64us

Detect

Vertical

Synch

Set

Reset

Pixel CLK

Figure 17. Schematic for a VGA controller circuit

A VGA controller circuit must generate the HS and VS timings signals and coordinate the delivery of video data based on the pixel clock. The pixel clock defines the time available to display one pixel of information. The VS signal defines the “refresh” frequency of the display, or the frequency at which all information on the display is redrawn. The minimum refresh frequency is a function of the display’s phosphor and electron beam intensity, with practical refresh frequencies falling in the 50Hz to 120Hz range. The number of lines to be displayed at a given refresh frequency defines the horizontal “retrace” frequency. For a 640-pixel by 480-row display using a 25MHz pixel clock and 60 +/-1Hz ref resh, the signal timings shown in the table at right can be derived. Timings for sync pulse width and front and back porch intervals (porch intervals are the pre- and post-sync pulse times during which information cannot be displayed) are based on observations taken from actual VGA displays.

A VGA controller circuit decodes the output of a horizontal-sync counter driven by the pixel clock to generate HS signal timings. This counter can be used to locate any pixel location on a given row. Likewise, the output of a vertical-sync counter that increments with each HS pulse can be used to generate VS signal timings, and this counter can be used to locate any given row. These two continually running counters can be used to form an address into video RAM. No time relationship between the onset of the HS pulse and the onset of the VS pulse is specified, so the designer can arrange the counters to easily form video RAM addresses, or to minimize decoding logic for sync pulse generation.

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Grey

Not available to user

Green

User I/O devices

Yellow

Data ports

Tan

Pmod connector signals

Blue

USB signals

Basys2 Spartan-3E pin definitions

Signal

C12

JD1

P11

SW0

N14

JA1

MODE0

GND

A13

JD2

USB-DB1

N13

USB-WRITE

MODE1

GND

A12

USB-DB0

M13

AN2

PS2D

MODE2

P10

GND

B12

M12

N12

CCLK

P14

GND

B11

L14

USB-WAIT

P13

DONE

VDDO-3

C11

BTN1

M10

L13

USB-DB4

PROG

B10

VDDO-3

JB1

N10

F13

RED2

USB-DB3

DIN

E13

VDDO-3

JB2

M11

LD1

F14

GRN0

USB-DB2

INIT

M14

VDDO-3

JB3

N11

D12

JD4

SW1

VDDO-3

JA4

P12

D13

RED1

SW6

GND

VDDO-3

SW7

C13

JD3

SW5

GND

VDDO-3

SW3

UCLK

C14

RED0

USB-ASTB

GND

VDDO-3

JA2

LD3

G12

BTN0

USB-DSTB

GND

VDDO-2

A10

JC3

LD2

K14

AN3

LD7

GND

E12

VDDO-2

JC4

BTN2

J12

AN1

SW4

C10

GND

VDDO-2

JC2

LD5

J13

BLU2

USB-DB6

GND

VDDO-2

JC1

LD0

J14

HSYNC

USB-DB5

E14

GND

A11

VDDO-1

MCLK

LD4

H13

BLU1

USB-DB7

GND

VDDO-1

RCCLK

G14

GRN2

H12

B14

TMS

H14

GND

D14

VDDO-1

BTN3

G13

GRN1

JA3

B13

TCK-FPGA

GND

VDDO-1

JB4

F12

AN0

SW2

TDO-USB

K12

GND

L12

VDDO-1

LD6

K13

VSYNC

PS2C

A14

TDO-S3

GND

VDDO-1

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FPGA

B2 A

ESD protection

diodes

6-pin

header

2 3 4 5 6

Short-circuit protection

resistors

header

2 3 4

header

2 3 4

6-pin

header

2 3 4

C6 B

6 C5 B

7 A9

A10

D12

Expansion Connectors (6-pin headers)

The Basys2 board provides four 6-pin peripheral module connectors. Each connector provides Vdd, GND, and four unique FPGA signals. Several 6-pin module boards that can attach to this connector are available from Digilent, including A/D converters, speaker amplifiers, microphones, H-bridge amplifiers, etc. Please see www.digilentinc.com

for more

information.

FPGA Pin Definitions

The table below shows all pin definitions for the Spartan-3E on the Basys2 board. Pins in grey boxes are not available to the user

FPGA pin definition table color key

Figure 18. Basys2 Pmod connecto r circuits

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Built in Self Test

The Basys2 board comes preloaded with a simple self test/demonstration project stored in its ROM. The demo project (available at the website) shows how the Xilinx CAD tools connect FPGA signals to Basys2 circuits. Since the project is stored in ROM, it can also be used to check board functions. To run the demo, set the ROM/USB jumper (JP3) to ROM and apply power to the board; the sevensegment display will show counting digits, the switches will turn on individual LEDs, the buttons will turn off individual digits on the seven segment display, and a test pattern is driven on the VGA port.

If the self test is not resident in the Platform Flash ROM, it can be programmed into the FPGA or reloaded into the ROM using the Adept programming software.

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