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SmartFusion Development KitMicrosemi's SmartFusion™ Development Kit offers a full-featured development board so you can try the world's only FPGA with hard ARM® Cortex™-M3 and programmable analog. The device contains on-chip flash and SRAM memory, as well as additional off-chip memory on the board. The board can communicate via Ethernet and HyperTerminal. The board also contains LEDs, switches, OLED, and extensive analog experimentation, including voltage rail monitoring, current POT, temperature diodes and voltage sweeping using active bipolar prescalers (ABPS). Networking interfaces include Ethernet PHY, EtherCAT, CAN, UART, and RS485. See board details below for more information.

The kit is supported by Libero® System on Chip (SoC), Microsemi's design software that includes SoftConsole Eclipse-based GNU software IDE. You can also use a free evaluation version or full licensed version of either Keil™ or IAR Systems® compilers. The quickstart card and the user's guide will walk you through the options for software, downloads, and licensing.

Kit Contents — A2F500-DEV-KIT-2

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Quantity Description
1 SmartFusion development board with SmartFusion A2F500M3G-FGG484 device
1 Low-cost programming stick (LCPS)
1 5 V power supply with international adapters
2 USB 2.0 A to mini-B cable
1 Quickstart card

Note: The previous version of this kit with the A2F200 device has been discontinued (A2F-DEV-KIT).

Web-based content includes user's guides, tutorials, design examples, and board documentation.

SmartFusion Development Kit

SmartFusion Development Kit board includes:

Devices On-Board
  • A2F500M3G-FGG484
    • 500,000 System FPGA gates, 512 KB flash memory, 64 KB SRAM, and additional distributed SRAM in the FPGA fabric and external memory controller
    • Peripherals include Ethernet, DMAs, I2Cs, UARTs, timers, ADCs, DACs and additional analog resources
    • Refer to the SmartFusion product page for full device information
  • Flash Memory, SRAM Memory, and PSRAM
  • EtherCAT ASIC
Interfaces
  • Programming connection for program and debug from Microsemi's design tools
  • RVI header for application programming and debug from either Keil or IAR Systems
  • Mixed-signal header for daughter card support
  • USB-to-UART connection to UART_0 for HyperTerminal examples
  • 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 connection through soft SPI core in the fabric and external PHY)
  • IGLOO PLUS expansion header for I/O expansion (for routing through the EMC I/Os)
  • A2F500 connector provides access to additional digital I/Os available in the A2F500 device
  • I2C headers
  • SPI headers
  • DirectC header

Ordering Information

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The previous version of this kit with the A2F200 device has been discontinued (A2F-DEV-KIT) has been discontinued, per PDN 1005 and is replaced by the part number below.

To purchase a kit or inquire about additional information, please contact your local Microsemi Sales representative.

Part Number Description List Price
A2F500-DEV-KIT-2 SmartFusion Development Kit $1125
Buy Online  Buy Online: Avnet Memec WW Distributor, Digi-Key WW Distributor

Resources

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User's Guides and Manuals
  SmartFusion cSoC Display Solution Using Open GL SC Graphics Library and Customizable Display Controller in FPGA Fabric Demo User’s Guide  PDF 2 MB 5/2012
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  SmartFusion Development Kit Quickstart Card  PDF 367 KB 10/2012
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  SmartFusion Development Kit User's Guide  PDF 7 MB 12/2012
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  SmartFusion cSoC Webserver Demo Using uIP and FreeRTOS User's Guide  PDF 3 MB 2/2012
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  Mixed Signal Power Manager for SmartFusion User's Guide  PDF 5 MB 9/2010
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  RoweBots Unison Ultra Tiny Linux OS  PDF 332 KB 8/2010
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  SmartFusion Quickstart Guide for Micrium µC/OS-III Examples  PDF 1 MB 11/2011
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  SmartFusion Modbus TCP Demo Using lwIP and FreeRTOS User's Guide  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  Microsemi SmartFusion Modbus Reference Design User’s Guide  PDF 1 MB 1/2013
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Tutorials
NOTE : Please extract design files in the root directory of your local drive (e.g. C :\) using WinRAR. Please refer to the KB article if an error is encountered with SoftConsole. http://www.microsemi.com/soc/kb/article.aspx?id=KI8879
  Using UART with SmartFusion cSoC: SoftConsole Standalone Flow Tutorial  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  Displaying POT Values over UART SoftConsole Standalone Flow Tutorial for SmartFusion cSoC  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  Using UART with a SmartFusion cSoC Libero SoC and SoftConsole Flow Tutorial  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  Displaying POT Level with LEDs: Libero SoC and µVision4 IDE Flow Tutorial for SmartFusion cSoC  PDF 2 MB 5/2012
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  Displaying POT Level with LEDs: Libero SoC and IAR Embedded Workbench Flow Tutorial for SmartFusion cSoC  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  Displaying POT Level with LEDs: Libero SoC and SoftConsole Flow Tutorial for a SmartFusion cSoC  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  SmartFusion cSoC: Building Executable Image in Release Mode and Loading into eNVM Tutorial  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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  Using Keil µVision and Microsemi SmartFusion  PDF 1 MB 1/2012
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  Using UART with a SmartFusion cSoC Libero SoC and IAR Embedded Workbench Flow Tutorial  PDF 1 MB 5/2012
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Board References
  A2F500 SmartFusion Development Kit PCB Files 
(includes Allegro, OrCAD schematics, and Gerber files)
URL   8/2012
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  A2F200 SmartFusion Development Kit PCB Files 
(includes Allegro, OrCAD schematics, and Gerber files)
URL   3/2010
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EU Regulations
  RoHS, WEEE, and FCC Notification for Design Hardware and Software  PDF 116 KB 3/2013
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  EU Declaration of Conformity  PDF 115 KB 3/2013
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Related Documentation
  Libero SoC Quick Start Guide for Software v10.0  PDF 4 MB 5/2012
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  Libero SoC v10.1 User’s Guide  PDF 8 MB 9/2012
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  Microsemi Libero IDE Quick Start Guide & Tutorial  PDF 5 MB 2/2012
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  Microsemi SoftConsole v3.1 User's Guide  PDF 4 MB 3/2010
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Product Change Notices
  PCN 1207: New Revisions of Hardware Kits (A2F-EVAL-KIT, A2F500-DEV-KIT, A3PE-STARTER-KIT)  PDF 39 KB 7/2012
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Customer Notifications
  Statement of Volatility for SmartFusion Development Kit  PDF 1 MB 4/2013
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For SmartFusion-related documents, visit the SmartFusion Documentation page.