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Spartan-3 Generation Families

Table 1-2: Spartan-3 Generation Platform Selection (Cont’d)

Spartan-3 Generation Platform
Application/Function Spartan-3 Spartan-3E Spartan-3A Spartan-3AN Spartan-3A DSP
FPGAs(1) FPGAs FPGAs FPGAs FPGAs
Power Management + + +
I/O Capabilities
Hot Swap + + ++ ++ ++
High Output Drive Current + ++ ++ ++
Programmable Input Delay + ++ +++ +++ +++
3.3V-only Applications + + ++ ++ ++
Clocking Resources
Digital Clock Managers (DCMs) + ++ ++ ++ ++
Low-Skew Global Clocks + ++ ++ ++ ++
FPGA Configuration
Platform Flash PROM + + + + +
SPI Flash Configuration + + + +
Parallel Flash Configuration + + + +
MultiBoot + + + +
Low-Cost Design Protection + ++ +++ ++
Non-Volatile +
Integrated User Flash +
Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
18x18 Hardware Multipliers + ++ ++ ++ +++
DSP48A +
Block RAM Registers + + ++ ++ +++

Notes:
1. The original Spartan-3 FPGA family is not recommended for new designs.
2. + = supported, ++ = better, +++ = best.

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