NEW ARM FPGA DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

APS has released its new APS-ArmXF FPGA Rapid Development Platform

The APS-ArmXF Rapid Development Platform is a highly programmable FPGA and ARM development system used for product development, product implementation, and algorithm testing, just to mention a few. The system includes one ARM-Block and up to 3 XF-Blocks along with software and ARM C, VHDL, and LINUX example code and templates.

ARM-BLOCK DESCRIPTION

Each ARM-Block contains A 166 MHz 32 bit ARM Processor, with 32 MB of High speed SDRAM, 8MB of on board flash, an IDE Compact Flash interface to allow up to 1GB of storage space. The ARM-Block also contains a large number IO options including SERIAL, SPI, TCP/IP, and USB ports. THE ARM-Block exists as the main support, configuration, and control interface to the large programmable logic XF-Blocks. The ARM-Block interfaces to up to 3 XF-Blocks via a fast 16 bit IO interface bus. Having the ARM processor existing outside of the FPGA blocks leaves 100% of the large FPGAs logic in the XF-Blocks available for user designs. The fact that an ARM processor exists in the system does not preclude the system from being used for embedded processor design in the FPGAs them selves in the XF-Blocks. In fact the XF-Block architecture is set up rather well for FPGA embedded processor design as well as Digital Signal Processing. The ARM-Blocks also can load and run the complete development system for the ARM- Block. The system is shipped with a preloaded LINUX kernel and a complete GNU development tool chain.

XF-BLOCK DESCRIPTION

Each XF-Block in the system contains a large million gate FPGA, optional 256K by 18 ZBT SRAM, three oscillator sockets, XC9572 CPLD, optional on board programmable Direct Digital Synthesized (DDS) clock, Phase Lock Loop Clock Multiplier chip, and 2 RS232 transceivers, along with up to 166 IO pins. The system's small size makes it great for embedded designs where a powerful programmable logic device is required. Up to three XF-Blocks can be stacked onto one ARM-Block to yield a modular 3 Million gate stack with 3 CPLD arrays, up to 3 separate DDS clock modules up to 3 256K x 18 ZBT SRAM modules (12 Mbits ) up to six separate oscillator sockets, 6 XF-Block serial port transceivers, 3 PLL clock multiplier chips, and up to 498 IO connections. The XF-Block stack's modularity works well for separating design task assignments. Each engineer can design and test his/her portion of the design separately in their own XF-Block

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