spatan.. hm.. i thought you were the warrior from sparta (O: he he hee spartan 3E ... i am drastically comfuseed... i thought it is the one with 40k/50k/100k/500k gates which comes with JTAG. you can download VHDL directly. now since when did FPGA boards started taking assembly instructions.. may be i am kinda lost hola.. or am i.