Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Hardware and Tools

Readers will learn how to set up their hardware and software tools for FPGA development. This includes configuring the development environment and understanding the tools needed for effective FPGA programming.

SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation Kit
Part Number: M2S090TS-EVAL-KIT

SmartFusion®2 Security Evaluation Kit makes it easy to develop secure embedded systems and provides the best-in-class 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 FPGA platform for developing cost-optimized SoC FPGA designs using Microchip's SmartFusion2 System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs, which integrates inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 MHz ARM®Cortex®-M3 processor, advanced data security features, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and industry-required high-performance communication interfaces—all on a single chip.

In addition, the SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation Kit 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 supply but can also be powered through the PCIe edge connector. Also, included is a 1-year free Gold License for the Libero®SoC software toolset to enable FPGA development and to utilize the reference designs made available with the kit.

Aries Embedded M100PF SoM
Part Number:M100PF

The M100PF SoM family spans from 100K logic elements (LEs) to 300K LEs, features 12.7G transceivers and offers up to 50% lower power than competing mid-range FPGAs. The devices are ideal for a wide range of applications within wireline access networks and cellular infrastructure, defense and commercial aviation markets, as well as industrial automation and IoT markets. The SoM is available in both the commercial temperature range 0°C.+70°C as well as in the industrial temperature range. -40°C+85°C. The M100PFEVP evaluation platform is also available to support the quick start-up of FPGA projects and can easily be used as a fast-prototype platform.

Arrow Everest Board
Part Number: EVEREST-DEV-BOARD

Arrow Electronics has designed the Arrow Everest Evaluation Board for PolarFire. To learn more or purchase contact Arrow.

CP-PROG-BASE
Part Number: CP-PROG-BASE

ChipPro is a quick and easy device programming solution for Microchip’s FPGA devices. The ChipPro programmer baseboard hosts a connector to plug in the FlashPro 6 , our newest programmer which supports Linux and Windows platforms, in conjunction with LiberoSoC, FlashPro Express, and SmartDebug software. It supports all FPGA devices in PolarFire, SmartFusion2, IGLOO2 and RTG4, series. System on modules (SoM) corresponding to each package size and type in our portfolio of FPGAs can also be connected to the baseboard to program the said FPGA package.

CPSOM-MPF100T-FCSG325
Part Number: CPSOM-MPF100T-FCSG325

The CPSOM-MPF100T-FCSG325 is a System on Module (SoM) adapter card designed to plug into the ChipPro programmer baseboard (CP-PROG-BASE). It is purpose-built to support manufacturing device programming for the PolarFire MPF100 device in the FCSG325 package with dimensions 11x11, 0.5 mm, across security features, speed grades and temperature grades of the device.

ChipPro is a quick and easy device programming solution for Microchip’s FPGA devices. The ChipPro programmer baseboard hosts a connector to plug in the FlashPro 6 , our newest programmer which supports Linux and Windows platforms, in conjunction with LiberoSoC, FlashPro Express, and SmartDebug software. It supports all FPGA devices in PolarFire, SmartFusion2, IGLOO2 and RTG4, series. System on modules (SoM) corresponding to each package size and type in our portfolio of FPGAs can also be connected to the baseboard to program the said FPGA package.