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Embedded System Development Board

Embedded System Development Board

The board has been designed to support a range of developments from simple logic and embedded system development, to more complex solutions such as image processing.

Key Features 

  • AMD Spartan 7 XC7S6 with 6000 logic cells, 5 BRAM, 2 CMT, 10 DSP48

  • Raspberry PI RP2040 processor providing dual-core Arm M0+ cores running at 133 MHz.

  • FTDI232H - For JTAG Programming 

  • SDRAM - 64 MBit 

  • 4 Pmod  - Three for FPGA, one for RPi 2040 -

  • Ability to fit high speed LVDS transciver on one FPGA Pmod

  • User Flash - connected to FPGA 32 MBit

  • QSPIFPGA Configuration PROM 256MBit 

  • Four User LEDs

  • Four push button switches

  • Four SPST switches

  • 100 MHz Reference clock  


Reference Designs, XDC, Schematics, Vivado board definition can be found here 


Application examples inlcude  

RPI_FPGA_UART_AXI Vivado 2023.2  Configures a UART in the RP2040 to communicate with the FPGA, sending a protocol over the UART and IP in the FPGA AXI peripherals can be accessed and controlled. In this version three AXI GPIO are connected to three LEDS, the final LED is connected to a AXI timer to demonstrate PWM on the LED. The 4 slide switches are also connected to the AXI GPIO to enable their status to be read over the AXI GPIO. Refer to project here for detials on protocol 


SDRAM Vivado 2023.2 - SDRAM example for the SDRAM on the board. 


MBV_MCS Vivado & Vitis 2024.1 MicroBlaze V (RISC-V) Microcontroller System implemented on the Spartan 7 see blog 


S7_LEO  Vivado 2023.2 IO check of all FPGA PMOD IO and 4 LED, walks a LED around all 28 LEDS (4 on board, 24 on Pmod LED - not included) - also connects through the user flash to the RPI for testing  


DELTA_SIGMA Vivado 2024.1 Delta Sigma output at 1KHz on PMod 1 pin 1, PWM Sine output at 1 KHz on Pmod 1 pin 2, - external RC needed for recovery


 Learn more about the board in these blogs 

https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/microzed-chronicles-leonidas-board

https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/microzed-chronicles-spartan-7-and-axi-over-uart 

https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/microzed-chronicles-microblaze-v-mcs

https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/microzed-chronicles-vivado-board-definitions

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