It is not exaggerated that Altera's MAX10 series products are an important innovation of CPLD. On the basis of the previous generation MAX series, the MAX10 has greatly improved logical resource density (highest with 50K logic units), internal integration, including embedded Processor Soft Nuclear, DSP Module, DDR3 Storage Controller and other resources, is completely less than some low-end FPGA devices. In the previous evaluation article (evaluation), we also experienced the MAX10-based Altera FPGA evaluation kit. Today we will introduce another MAX10-based FPGA development board BEMICRO MAX10.
Unpack
Just get the Bemicro MAX10, you will be shocked by its small appearance, you are hard to imagine this is a FPGA development board. The Bemicro MAX10 packaging is simple, there is only one board card and a miniusb cable.
Don't underestimate the board, the Bai, the BEMICRO MAX10 board, the development of most basic functions, such as LED, button, DAC conversion, multiple sensors including acceleration, temperature sensors, etc., very suitable for those The FPGA has just got a small partner. Of course, Bemicro Max10 also led many IO ports available for engineers DIY or secondary development, and people are delightful. The card actually integrates the boarded debugger, which is for engineers. Whether it is cost or development is very powerful.
Hardware introduction
Bemicro MAX10 The entire board is powered by the Miniusb interface. This interface is also an interface for a USB-Blaster debugger.
As an entry-level FPGA development board, Bemicro is equipped with peripheral resources, neither you feel that there is no debugging, and will not let beginners feel very difficult. From the past experience, many FPGA development boards have a large number of dial switches and hopping, all kinds of signals, etc. For beginners, it is extremely difficult to get started, and Bemicro Max10 is very good to avoid this. Point, let you feel the difficulty to get started. As shown in the figure below, the hardware system of the entire board is clear, and it is clear.
It is worth noting that although the board has been designed with 50MHz and 24MHz clock circuits, the board is only equipped with 50MHz crystal in the hand of the panel, as shown below.
From the official website, the 50MHz clock is mainly used for the reference clock design of the system routine provided, and the 24MHz clock is the second clock, which is an alternative to the user, but from this time the board appears, the user is only It can use 50 MHz crystals as the input source of the clock.
Altera's other FPGA development board related recommendation:
MAX II Development Kit A programmable logic IC's embedded FPGA has also provided a simple way for designers to evaluate the development tool for MAX II device functions.
Cyclone IV Getting Started Suite A MAX II CPLD EPM2210 system controller develops FPGA designs for low-cost applications to measure low-power development tools for FPGA.
The Max V Development Kit is a comprehensive and low-cost can quickly start developing a low-cost, low-power CPLD design programmable logical IC development platform.
Bemicro MAX10 onboard resources:
MAX® 10 FPGA (10M08DAF484C8GES)
Onboard embedded debugger USB-BLASTER
50M / 24M clock circuit
8MB SDRAM (4MB x 16) (ISSI IS42S16400)
Three-axis acceleration adi adxl362
DAC Converter ADI AD5681
Temperature sensor Adi ADT7420
Heat-thermistor / photosensitive resistance
8 LED / 4 User Button
2 6PIN PMOD interface, 2 40pin IO port expansion interface
1 6PIN analog input interface, a 80pin BEMICRO Card Edge interface
In addition to some basic functions, Bemicro MAX10 is also very rich, and it also retains the 80PIN EDGE interface used in the Arrow Bemicro kit, and users can easily migrate from the Bemicro SDK or BEMICRO CV kit, using MAX10 FPGA New features on the device, such as ADC modules, temperature diodes, and flash storage.
MAX® 10 FPGA (10M08DAF484C8GES) features:
8000 logical units (Le)
414KB ON-CHIP storage
256KB user storage
2 phase locked loops (PLLs) / 24 18x18-bit multiplier
1 ADC module: 1 MSPS, 12-bit, 18 channel
17 road simulation input
1 temperature detection diode
250 General Input / Output (GPIO)
Non-volatile self-configured double guidance start support
It can be seen that the Specific model of the Bemicro Max10 development board is 10m08daf484c8ges, which belongs to the middle and low-end products in Altera MAX10 devices, and the MAX10 series products include more powerful 10m16, 10m25, 10m40, 10m50. They previously shown as shown below.
Altera's other FPGA development board related recommendation:
MAX II Development Kit A programmable logic IC's embedded FPGA has also provided a simple way for designers to evaluate the development tool for MAX II device functions.
Cyclone IV Getting Started Suite A MAX II CPLD EPM2210 system controller develops FPGA designs for low-cost applications to measure low-power development tools for FPGA.
The Max V Development Kit is a comprehensive and low-cost can quickly start developing a low-cost, low-power CPLD design programmable logical IC development platform.
Development environment and power-on start
For FPGA development, familiarity and use EDA tools are a very important thing. Bemicro MAX10 Development Board recommends using Altera's EDA tool Quartus II, because Max 10 is the latest product of Altera, the corresponding EDA version requires 14.0.2 or more to support, and 14.0 version of Quartus II requires 64-bit system parties. Support, this is a bit a bit of the PC environment, and engineers should pay special attention. At present, the latest version of the official website has reached 15.0.
If you download the software, you can choose to use the downloader or download it directly, but I don't know if the network problem is still a problem. I haven't downloaded success for a few days. You can use it as needed as much as possible when you download the software, such as you only need to develop the MAX10 series of devices, just download the appropriate device packages, which can save a lot of time.
Downloading QUARTUS II after downloading, we also need to download the software upgrade package, including the upgrade of software and IP, help better development.
One thing to note that when you install Quartus II, you will be prompted to install the USB-Blaster debugger, remember to be installed, it is necessary to download and debug the debugging of the debugger in the later.
After the development environment is familiar, we can charge the board. Bemicro MAX10 only needs to use the computer's USB interface to implement the power running factory built-in LED light routine, which is very convenient.
As is well known, the maximum characteristic of the MAX10 device is the double configuration flash, we can store two mirrored on a single chip, dynamically switch between mirrored, the Bemicro board is also considered when designing, we can pass the hat J3 to switch different mirror boot mode, is it very good!
For the specific development of the Bemicro MAX10, we can refer to the officially provided to use the guidance or the evaluation of the Altera Max 10 FPGA evaluation kit before the online use of the official website, this article will not be described in one by one.
summary
The MAX10-based BEMICRO FPGA development board introduced by arrow is introduced. The latest MAX10 device 10M08DAF484C8 is onboard Altera, which has two configuration flash, Nios II soft core embedded processor, DSP module and other features, Bemicro development also has a rich peripheral Resources, including basic LEDs, key functions, various sensor devices such as temperature sensors, acceleration sensors, etc., DAC converters, etc., and the board also expands numerous IOs for engineers DIY or secondary development, whether it is FPGA's beginners or what specialized engineers who want to play with MAX10, Bemicro is definitely a difficult FPGA learning advanced board.
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Altera's other FPGA development board related recommendation:
MAX II Development Kit A programmable logic IC's embedded FPGA has also provided a simple way for designers to evaluate the development tool for MAX II device functions.
Cyclone IV Getting Started Suite A MAX II CPLD EPM2210 system controller develops FPGA designs for low-cost applications to measure low-power development tools for FPGA.
The Max V Development Kit is a comprehensive and low-cost can quickly start developing a low-cost, low-power CPLD design programmable logical IC development platform.
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