Titanium Ti180 M484 FPGA Development Kit

Whether capturing video, aggregating sensor data, or designing for mobile or IoT applications, Efinix's Titanium Ti180 M484 development kit provides everything needed to get started quickly. This kit showcases the Ti180’s hard­ened MIPI D-PHY (supporting up to 2.5 Gbps per lane) and hardened LPDDR4/4x controller to implement fast external FPGAs frame buffers.

Connecting to various camera modules is made very simple with this kit as there are multiple daughter cards included. The kit includes a Raspberry Pi V2 camera which can be used to stream video and store data in the development board’s 256-MBit LPDDR4X at up to 2 Gbps. The kit also includes two additional daughter cards, the IMX477 camera connector, which are compliant with the 22-pin ribbon cables used with Arducam Raspberry Pi camera modules. Connecting with those camera modules allows video data processing of 12.3-megapixel IMX477 sensors and camera modules (IMX477 camera module itself not included). The devel­opment kit also has two Macronix high-performance 256-Mb SPI NOR Flash chips so users can store additional data such as RISC-V software. Ethernet and HDMI output daughter cards are included so users can process data in the FPGA and send it to a display or another system. The Ti180 development board also includes an FMC connector (FPGA mezzanine card) that allows connection to other IO cards in that ecosystem. The FMC connector enables users to create a proof-of-concept system that most closely matches their needs.

All of these capabilities are included with the highest performance, lowest power, and smallest package of any other FPGA solution. With the purchase of the Titanium development kit, registered users receive access to log into Efinix's site to download Efinity software for one year (including updates and upgrades). The Efinity software provides a complete tool flow from RTL design to bitstream generation, including synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, and a hardware debugger with a logic analyzer. It has a graphical user interface (GUI) that provides a visual way to set up projects, run the tool flow, and view results. The software also has a command-line flow and a TCL command console. The software-generated bitstream file is used to configure the Titanium FPGA on the development board with a custom design.