FPGA - Mixed Signal & ARM CPU

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.

Features

Kit Contents: 1x SmartFusion®2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA 90K LE M2S090TS-FGG484 Evaluation Board 1x USB A male to micro-B male cable 1x 12 V, 2 A AC power adapter 1x Quickstart guide 1x Libero® System-on-Chip (SoC) Platinum software one year license 1x FlashPro4 programmer

SmartFusion® System on Chip (SoC) FPGAs are the only devices that integrate an FPGA fabric, ARM Cortex-M3 Processor, and programmable analog circuitry, offering the benefits of full customization and IP protection, while still being easy to use. Based on a proprietary flash process, SmartFusion SoC FPGAs are ideal for hardware and embedded designers who need a true system-on-chip (SoC) solution that gives more flexibility than traditional fixed-function microcontrollers without the excessive cost of soft processor cores on traditional FPGAs. SmartFusion SoC FPGAs provide you with: Full Design Customisability. - Create a product with exactly the features you need - Innovate and differentiate for a competitive edge - Incorporate last-minute changes with an on-chip FPGA fabric - Future-proof your design with in-application programming (IAP) capability for field upgrades - Experiment with hardware acceleration for select algorithms in FPGA fabric Intellectual Property (IP) Protection - Inherent flash FPGA IP security with a complete SoC - Snoop-free interface between microcontroller and FPGA - High design security since no bitstream download is required at power-up - Secure in-system programming (ISP) with 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) via JTAG - FlashLock ® to prevent FPGA contents from being read back - Protection against overbuilding with customer programmable device key Ease-of-Use Increases Productivity - A single platform for your entire line of products - Libero SoC integrated design environment for both FPGA and embedded designers - Simple GUI-based configuration of complex programmable analog - Industry leading compile and debug from Keil™, IAR Systems® and GNU - Micrium supports SmartFusion devices with real time operating system (RTOS) and middleware components

Features

Microcontroller Subsystem (MSS) - Hardware industry-standard 100 MHz, 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 CPU - Multi-layer AHB communication matrix with up to 16 Gbps throughput - 10/100 Ethernet MAC with RMII interface - Two of each: SPI, I2C, UART, 32-bit timers - Up to 512 KB flash and 64 KB of SRAM - External memory controller (EMC) - 8-channel DMA controller - Up to 41 MSS I/Os with Schmitt trigger inputs - 25 I/Os can be used as FPGA I/Os FPGA Fabric - Based on Microsemi's proven ProASIC3 architecture - 60,000 to 500,000 system gates with 350 MHz system performance - Embedded SRAMs and FIFOs - Variable aspect ratio 4,608-bit SRAM blocks - x1, x2, x4, x9 and x18 organizations - True dual-port SRAM (including x18) - Up to 128 FPGA I/Os supporting LVDS, PCI, PCI-X and LVTTL/LVCMOS standards Programmable Analog - High-performance analog signal conditioning blocks (SCB) with voltage, current and temperature monitors - Analog compute engine (ACE) offloads CPU from analog initialization and processing of analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) and SCBs - Integrated ADCs and DACs with 1 percent accuracy - 12-/10-/8-bit mode ADCs with 500/550/600 Ksps sampling rate - Up to ten 15 ns high-speed comparators - Up to 32 analog inputs and 3 outputs