SmartFusion®2 Maker Board

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            SmartFusion®2 Maker Board
                    Microsemi introduces its DigiKey exclusive low-cost evaluation board based on SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA technology
    

Microsemi’s SmartFusion®2 Maker Board, available exclusively at DigiKey, provides designers with the lowest cost evaluation board to access the SmartFusion2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA. This device integrates a 12 K LE Flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 MHz ARM® Cortex®-M3 processor, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and general purpose GPIO interfaces all on a single chip.

The SmartFusion2 Maker Board (M2S010-MKR-KIT) includes the following features:

The SmartFusion2 M2S010 SoC FPGA
The 10/100/1000BASE-T VSC8541 PHY
Wurth Electronics RJ45 7499111221A
Ambient light sensor
16 Mbit SPI Flash
Eight user LEDs
USB integrated FlashPro5 programming hardware

Connector for ESP8266 (not included)
Laid out footprint for ESP32 (not included)
USB port for UART communications
LX7167A powering the board
50 MHz clock source
2 user pushbuttons

The SmartFusion2 Maker Board can be used with Microsemi’s Libero SoC v11.8 software or more recent versions of it. Libero SoC with a silver license will program the FPGA fabric of the SmartFusion2. To code the ARM Cortex M3, Microsemi offer a full featured, Eclipse based IDE called SoftConsole. This IDE enables firmware engineers to program in C/C++ and includes full debugging of the ARM Cortex-M3.

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