SmartFusion2 System-on-chip (SoC) FPGAs Starter Kit

The SmartFusion2 Starter Kit provides designers with access to SmartFusion2 system-on-chip(SoC) FPGAs, which integrate inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 142 MHz ARM Cortex-M3 processor, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM and industry required high-performance communication interfaces all on a single chip. SmartFusion2 Starter Kit comes in two variants with different SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA device on the board. Following are the two variants: 1. SF2-STARTER-KIT with M2S050-FGG484 device 2. SF2-484-STARTER-KIT with M2S010-FGG484 device. The SmartFusion2 starter kit supports industry-standard interfaces including Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C and UART and includes a comprehensive breadboard to support unique design requirements. The kit can be used with Microsemi"s Libero SoC v11.0 software or newer, which includes a free Libero Gold license and comes preloaded with a uClinux demo. Emcraft Systems" Linux-based development environment is also supported with this kit. The SmartFusion2 device is available on an Emcraft Systems miniature mezzanine form factor system-on-module (M2S-FG484 SOM), which connects to the SOM-BSB-EXT baseboard. The kit is USB powered and includes a FlashPro4 programming hardware.

• SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA in the
  • FGG484 package (M2S050T-FGG484) for SF2-STARTER-KIT or
  • FGG484 package (M2S010T-FGG484) for SF2-484-STARTER-KIT
• JTAG interface, for programming of the SmartFusion2 device
• 10/100 Ethernet interface and RJ-45 connector
• USB OTG interface and mini-USB connector
• USB based Wi-Fi Module
• 64MB LPDDR, 16MB SPI flash
• User push-button connected to GPIO on the SOM
• Two user-controlled LEDs connected to GPIO on the SOM
• Breadboard area available for GPIO or FPGA I/O connection
• Power good LED indicating presence of the +3.3 V SOM power
• Reset push button, Reset-out LED
• On-module clocks
• Watchdog Timer (WDT)
• Serial console interface at UART CMOS levels
• Low power mode with fast wake-up times
• Depending on the design, can provide necessary power supply voltages (+5 V, +3.3 V, +1.5 V for power-optimized SOM operation) from external sources through dedicated pads on the breadboard.