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Hardware Description
The FPGA expansion board is designed for use with the Stellaris EPI module. Figure F-3 shows a
simplified system block diagram. Components of the default FPGA board are shown in half-tone
outline.
Figure F-3. FPGA Expansion Board Block Diagram
FPGA
The FPGA expansion board features a Xilinx Spartan 3e FPGA, which interfaces to the Stellaris®
microcontroller through its EPI port and acts as a crossbar to the rest of the peripherals.
Camera
The Omnivision OV7690 camera provides color VGA images at up to 30 frames per second to the
FPGA over an 8-bit wide parallel interface. It is configured by the Stellaris microcontroller via I
2
C.
SRAM
The 1 MB, 8-bit wide, 10 ns SRAM is nominally used as a set of frame buffers. 16 bits of the 20-bit
address space are latched and multiplexed with its data. Access time may be dependent on the
previous address.
Configuration PROM
A Xilinx standard configuration PROM holds the default FPGA image and automatically uploads it
at power-on.
Configuration Pushbutton
To reload the configuration PROM image to the FPGA, press the configuration pushbutton. This
allows you to load a new image via JTAG without resetting the rest of the system.
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