Posted to News on 14th Apr 2020, 13:01
Microchip Hello FPGA Kit simplifies FPGA development
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the Hello FPGA Kit from Microchip. The kit is an entry-level platform developed for end users with low to medium experience with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Hello FPGA Kit supports artificial intelligence (AI) and digital signal processing prototypes and includes a power monitor GUI that allows developers to measure FPGA core power consumption while running designs. The kit is suitable for the development of a broad range of solutions, including communications, industrial, aviation, medical, and defence applications.
The Microchip Hello FPGA Kit includes the FPGA mainboard, a camera sensor board, LCD board, and required USB cable. The FPGA mainboard is based on the SmartFusion2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA. The low-power SmartFusion2 device combines FPGA fabric with a 166-MHz Arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller subsystem that includes 256Kbytes of embedded flash, extensive peripherals, instruction cache, and Embedded Trace Macrocell.
The FPGA mainboard also includes a Microchip PIC32MX7 microcontroller - which controls the SmartFusion2 SoC, monitors power, and more - as well as Arduino and Mikroe mikroBUS connectors to offer flexibility for prototyping and expansion. The kit can work as a standalone unit as well as an extension to existing Microchip kits over the PICkit Header.
Follow the links to learn more about the Microchip Hello FPGA Kit and to watch a video.
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