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| Table of Contents | 
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| Limited Lifetime Warranty | 2 | 
| Copyright Notice | 2 | 
| Trademark Acknowledgment | 2 | 
| Customer Support Overview | 3 | 
| Contact Information | 3 | 
| Table of Contents | 4 | 
| List of Tables | 5 | 
| List of Figures | 5 | 
| Introduction | 6 | 
| Product Features | 6 | 
| About this manual | 6 | 
| System Overview | 7 | 
| Reference Design | 9 | 
| Hardware Description | 10 | 
| Jumpers and Switches | 10 | 
| Slot Selection (RSW1) | 10 | 
| FPGA Configuration Settings (J1) | 10 | 
| Connector Pinouts | 11 | 
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| JTAG Programming Header (P2) | 11 | 
| SPI Flash Programming Header (P3) | 11 | 
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| GPIO Header (P7) | 14 | 
| External Power Connector (P8) | 15 | 
| Connector’s Mating Components and Cables | 16 | 
| Hardware Installation | 17 | 
| Heat Sink Installation | 17 | 
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| Software Installation | 18 | 
| FPGA Development Environment | 18 | 
| PLX Software Development Kit (SDK) | 18 | 
| Reference Design & Application Examples | 18 | 
| FPGA Configuration | 19 | 
| Power and Thermal Considerations | 20 | 
| Reference Design FPGA power analysis | 20 | 
| Specifications | 21 | 
| Appendix A: iMPACT Instructions for FPGA Configuration | 22 | 
| Launch Impact | 22 | 
| Programming the FPGA | 25 | 
| Generating a PROM (MCS) File | 26 | 
| Configuring the FPGA with the SPI Flash | 29 | 
| Configuring the FPGA / SPI flash Association | 29 | 
| Programming the Flash | 31 | 
| Appendix B: Power calculations | 33 | 
| Scenario 1: Heatsink attached, 250 LFM | 33 | 
| Scenario 2: No Heatsink, 250 LFM | 34 | 
| Scenario 3: No heatsink, 0 LFM | 35 | 
| Appendix C: Hardware Changes from Revision B | 36 | 
| Reference Design | 37 | 
| Hardware Description | 38 | 
| Connector Pinouts | 38 | 
| Specifications | 39 | 
| Revision 0.02 | 4 |