Where To Start With Starter Development Kits: SmartFusion2
Providing designers with access to SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs.
Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 Starter Kit provides designers with access to SmartFusion2 System-On-Chip (SoC) FPGAs, which integrate inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 142MHz ARM Cortex-M3 processor, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and industry-required high-performance communication interfaces all on a single chip.
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 later, which includes a free Libero Gold license. Emcraft Systems’ Linux-based development environment is supported with this kit. The kit comes preloaded with a uClinux demo.
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 Starter Kit comes in three variants with different SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA device on the board:
- SF2060-STARTER-KIT with M2S060-FGG484 device
- SF2-STARTER-KIT with M2S050-FGG484 device
- SF2-484-STARTER-KIT with M2S010-FGG484 device
- What is the SmartFusion2 Starter Kit for? Programming.
- How much does the SmartFusion2 Starter Kit cost? All variants are available at $299.
- Where can I get the SmartFusion2 Starter Kit? Respected distributors such as Microsemi SoC Direct, Digikey and Mouser Electronics.
Tech Specs of the SmartFusion2 Starter Kit
| Packages | FGG484 package (M2S060-FGG484) for SF2060-STARTER-KIT, FGG484 package (M2S050-FGG484) for SF2-STARTER-KIT, FGG484 package (M2S010-FGG484) for SF2-484-STARTER-KIT |
| Programming | JTAG interface |
| Interface Type | USB |
| WiFi Module | USB based |
| LPDDR | 64MB |
| SPI flash | 16MB |
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