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Arrow SoCKit Evaluation Board

18 May 2017 - 19:36 | Version 121 | JeffNigh | Arrow

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Introduction

Arrow is pleased to provide the easiest way to learn about and develop with Altera’s SoC solutions: our SoCKit. The Arrow SoCKit was developed to help engineers take full advantage of these new solutions and help them see how simple designing with these devices can be.

Combining the latest Cortex-A9 embedded cores with industry-leading programmable logic, Altera’s new SoC solutions give you ultimate design flexibility with unparalleled ease. Altera SoC s integrate an ARM-based hard processor system (HPS) consisting of processor, peripherals, and memory interfaces, with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. That means you get the performance and power savings of hard Intellectual Property (IP) and the flexibility of programmable logic.

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Key Features

Each SoCKit features:

Altera Cyclone V SoC with Dual ARM® Cortex®-A9 processors and 110K LEs
High Speed Mezzanine Connector (HSMC) including transceivers
Two banks of low-power DDR3 memory
MicroSD card and Ethernet 10/100/1000 interfaces
Adjustable clock output by Silicon Labs
Graphic LCD: 128 x 64 (SPI Interface)
VGA and Audio connections
USB 2.0 OTG (Full Speed) and USB to UART connections
3-Axis digital accelerometer and temp sensor
User’s manual/start-up guide, USB and Power Cables

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Workshops

Attend a Workshop. Receive a FREE kit. With over 100 global locations, it’s easy to attend a workshop near you.

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Discover the latest design techniques, considerations, and tools to get your next SoC design started during our hands-on workshops. You’ll also learn about the new Altera SoC Embedded Design Suite (EDS) featuring the innovative ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera Edition Toolkit. By combining the most advanced multi-core debugger for ARM architecture with the ability to adapt to the logic contained in the FPGA, the new toolkit provides embedded software developers an unprecedented level of full-chip visibility and control through the standard DS-5 user interface.

This lab-based training gives you the opportunity to:

Add custom FPGA peripherals to the ARM Cortex-A9 processor using the Qsys system integration tool
Verify peripheral HDL code using ModelSim
Use system console to verify to FPGA IP locally within the FPGA
Leverage the new ARM DS-5 Altera Edition tools and standalone code to access/debug the FPGA IP from the Cortex-A9
Run Embedded Linux on the Cortex-A9
Add a device driver for the FPGA IP and access the IP from a Linux application

With over 100 global locations, it’s easy to attend a workshop near you. And remember, $99 gets you everything you need, including a complete SoCKit.

Workshop Agenda:

Introduction and Workshop Objectives
System Architecture Overview
System Design Overview & Tool Flow
Lab 1: Add Custom FPGA peripherals to the Cortex A9 processor using Qsys
Lab 2: Use System Console to verify the FPGA IP within the FPGA
Boot Linux & Video Demo
Overview of powering the SoC using Linear Technology Solutions
Software Architecture Overview
Software Design Overview & Tool Flow
Lab 3: Generate, Build, and Run the Preloader
Lab 4: Validating the FPGA Peripherals from the Hard Processing Subsystem (HPS)
Lab 5: Cross Triggering (Optional, time permitting)
Android Demo
Resources and further Training
Next Steps

Resources

Guides

Hardware

Software

Reference Designs

Solutions

Boot the Arrow SoCKit Evaluation Board from QSPI
Loading the SoCKit FPGA from U-boot
Android - Getting started on SoCKit Evaluation Board
Xillinux for SoCKit: A Linux desktop distribution for easy data exchange with the FPGA logic
Arrow SoCKit OpenCL Package * must be a registered rocketboards user to view *

Workshop Labs

Installation notes:

Create a folder c:\altera_trn on your PC.
Download the workshop zip file and save it to c:\altera_trn on your PC
Extract the zip file to this folder

SoC Labs

JESD204B Labs

SoCKit_JESD204B_Lab_14_0.zip

Training

DS-5 Altera Edition SoCKit Tutorial

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