M1A3Pl Development Board With M1A3Pl1000-FGG484

Microsemi"s ARM CortexTM-M1-enabled ProASIC 3L Development Kit provides you with a complete solution for quickly evaluating and prototyping your design based on Microsemi"s Cortex-M1-enabled ProASIC3L devices. The development kit is fully RoHS-compliant and contains the incredibly powerful ARM Cortex-M1-enabled ProASIC3L M1A3P1000L device in the FGG484 package. The development kit enables swift design development based on the royalty-free, industry standard ARM Cortex-M1 processor. The development board has on-board voltage regulation, enabling you to set some of the I/O bank voltages independently. A regulator circuit on the board facilitates control of the core voltage. The core voltage can be switched manually or electronically for programming purposes and returned to the 1.2 V setting for the lowest power consumption. The evaluation board also enables you to measure full current capability of independent I/O banks and VCC for accurate power analysis. Advanced AES encryption for enhancing programming security is used when experimenting with the starter kit. The encryption key is preprogramed into the device to allow the latest ARM FPGA-specific processor soft core, Cortex-M1, to be used.

• Oscillator for system clock is provided
• Eight LEDs and eight switches provide simple inputs and outputs to the system
• USB programming and debug connection
• Second USB connection for USB-to-serial (RS232) interface, also allows powering of the board
• Optional board power connector for an external supply, but none is needed when connected to a USB cable
• Memory devices
  • 4 MB of SRAM provided on board
  • 16 MB of flash memory provided on board
• General purpose I/O banks
  • Three 40-pin GPIO banks are provided for interfacing to other equipment. Two of these banks are fully populated.