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+            Very small building guide for the SPC
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+If you have a ML-505 or Spartan 3e Starter Kit available the building of the SPC
+is very simple.
+
+1. cd into the main project directory
+2. make menuconfig (gcc, libncurses-dev required) or make config (gcc required)
+3. select the evaluation board you posess
+4. under General Tool Options, setup the correct paths for the xilinx tools. Please
+   select the directory in which the directories for each version live, for example
+   the directory where you can finde 14.1, 15.1, etc
+5. select your xilinx version
+6. select the xilinx license server, you can give a path to a license file too
+7. select if you have the 32bit or 64bit xilinx tools installed
+8. leave the configuration tool and save config data
+9. call make all and wait
+10.if everything has gone well, do a make program to program your board
+11.the rs232 interface is running at 57600 baud and should print "Geraffel Processor"
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