Tutorials and Resources for Xilinx Video Starter Kit Spartan 3 Edition

Platform Summary

- Spartan XC3SD3400A-4FGG676C FPGA Device
- FMC-Video daughter card with DVI and S-Video input
- Composite input and output
- Support for up to 720p or 1080i video resolution
- 742 × 480 × 60 Hz RGB CMOS camera with mini-tripod
- 128 MB Compact Flash card with boot image
- RS-232 Serial Port
- DVI, VGA, Null-modem, S-Video and Ethernet cables
- PC4 JTAG programming interface
- General Purpose I/O: Buttons, LEDs, and DIP Switches
- Xilinx ISE and EDK licenses included

Compatible Platform Support Packages

- Xilinx Generic VHDL
- Xilinx Generic Verilog
- Xilinx MicroBlaze FSL (VHDL)
- Xilinx MicroBlaze FSL BlueCat Linux (VHDL)
- Xilinx MicroBlaze FSL uClinux (VHDL) 
- Xilinx MicroBlaze PLB (VHDL)
- Xilinx DVI Video with MicroBlaze PLB

Step-by-Step Tutorial

Implementing a streaming object detection filter on the Xilinx Video Starter Kit Board


This example demonstrates the use of the MicroBlaze processor and PLB interface to control a custom C-to-FPGA object detection and highlighting filter.

Impulse Fish Finder Tutorial for Xilinx VSK (PowerPoint)

Available Ready-to-Run Examples

- Fish Finder Ready-to-Run example

Other Resources

Xilinx Website
Xilinx Video Starter Kit Specifications

See Also

Tutorials for Avnet Platforms
Tutorials for Xilinx FPGA Platforms


Xilinx Video Starter Kit, Spartan 3 Edition is available
from Xilinx and its authorized resellers




Use the Video Starter Kit and Impulse CoDeveloper
to rapidly develop, optimize and deploy complex video
processing applications.





The Fish Finder DVI reference example