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The Actel SmartFusion™ Development Kit is equipped with a fully functional development board that allows users to try out the world's only FPGA device with an ARM® Cortex™-M3 hard-core processor and programmable analog resources. The device includes on-chip flash and on-chip SRAM memory, as well as additional off-chip memory. The board can communicate via Ethernet and HyperTerminal. It also includes LEDs, switches, OLEDs, and rich analog test functions including voltage rail monitoring, current POT, temperature diodes, and voltage sweeps using active bipolar prescalers (ABPS). Networking interfaces include Ethernet PHY, EtherCAT, CAN, UART, and RS485.

The tool suite is supported by the Actel Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which includes the Eclipse-based SoftConsole GNU software IDE. Users can also use free evaluation versions or fully licensed versions of Keil™ or IAR Systems® compilers. A quick start card and user guide walk users through the various options for setting up the software, downloading and licensing.

Kit Contents— A2F-DEV-KIT

Quantity Content

1 SmartFusion Development Board with SmartFusion A2F200M3F-FGG484ES device

1 Low Cost Programming Stick (LCPS) or FlashPro4 programmer

1 5 V power supply with international adapters

2 USB 2.0 A to mini-B cables

1 Quick Start Card

The SmartFusion Development Kit with the A2F200M3F-FGG484ES device includes:

On-board devices

A2F200M3F-FGG484ES

200,000 FPGA system gates, 256 KB flash, 64 KB SRAM, and additional distributed SRAM and external memory controllers in the FPGA fabric

Peripherals include Ethernet, DMA, I2C, UART, timers, ADC, DAC, and additional analog resources

Please refer to the SmartFusion product page for device details

Flash, SRAM memory and PSRAM

EtherCAT ASIC

interface

Programming connection for programming and debugging of Aite design tools

RVI header for application programming with Keil or IAR systems

Mixed signal header for daughter card support

USB-to-UART connection to UART_0 for HyperTerminal example

DB9 connector for RS485 UART_1

Two DB9 connectors for CAN ports

RJ45 connector for 10/100 Ethernet (on-chip MAC and external PHY)

Two RJ45 connectors for EtherCAT port connectivity via the SPI soft core in the architecture and external PHY

IGLOO PLUS expansion header for I/O expansion (for routing via EMC I/O)

Support for the A2F500 connector will be available when the A2F500 device is available, providing access to the additional digital I/O of the larger device

I2C Header

SPI Header

DirectC Header

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