Embedded Processing & Memory

Microsemi's SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation Kit makes it easy to develop secure embedded systems and provides the best-in-world solutions for both Design Security—when protecting your design IP is critical; and Data Security—when protecting application data is necessary. The kit provides a cost effective SoC field programmable gate array (FPGA) platform for developing cost-optimized SoC FPGA designs using Microsemi's SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs, which integrate inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 MHz ARM® Cortex®-M3 processor, advanced security processing accelerators, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and industry-required high-performance communication interfaces—all on a single chip. In addition, the SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation comes with a large 90K LE device to make it easy to develop transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs to build PCI Express® and Gigabit Ethernet-based systems and also have room for large IP blocks to complement the design. The board is also small form-factor PCIe compliant, which will allow quick prototyping and evaluation using any desktop PC or laptop with a PCIe slot. The kit enables you to: • Evaluate the Data Security features of SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs including: – Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) – SRAM-PUF (Physically Unclonable Function) – Random Number Generator (RNG) – AES/SHA – Anti-Tamper • Develop and test PCI Express Gen2 x1 lane designs • Test the signal quality of the FPGA transceiver using full-duplex SERDES SMA Pairs • Measure the low power consumption of the SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA • Quickly create a working PCIe link with the included PCIe Control Plane Demo The board includes an RJ45 interface to 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 512 MB of LPDDR, 64 MB SPI Flash, and USB-UART connections, as well as I2C, SPI, and GPIO headers. The kit includes a 12 V power adapter, but can also be powered through the PCIe edge connector. Also included is a free Platinum License for the Libero SoC software toolset to enable FPGA development and to utilize the reference designs made available with the kit.

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