Aldec Unveils Modular, Versatile TySOM-M PolarFire SoC Growth Board and Add-Ons

Digital design automation agency Aldec has launched a growth board constructed across the newly-qualified Microchip PolarFire SoC, aiming to supply a compact however full-feature different to Microchip’s personal Icicle Equipment with modular expandability: the TySOM-M.

“Our TySOM-M debut board inherits all of the options and advantages of the PolarFire SoC FPGA. These, mixed with the board’s personal options and advantages, present engineers with a extremely versatile platform for creating purposes that can value lower than in the event that they have been to focus on Arm cores,” claims Aldec’s Zibi Zalewski of the launch. “Additionally, the board’s capacity to connect with two FMC daughter playing cards means it may be utilized in just about any business sector with out having to develop customized {hardware}. This actually is a robust plug-and-play answer.”

Constructed round Microchip’s PolarFire SoC MPFS250T-FCG1152 half, the TySOM-M contains 4 SiFive U54 RISC-V utility cores, an E51 monitor core, and an FPGA with 254k logic cells and a complete of 17.6Mb of RAM — alongside 16Gb of DDR4 for the FPGA and one other 16Gb of ECC DDR4 for the system.

The board’s predominant declare to fame: expandability, utilizing high-density FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) connectors to interface with optionally available add-on boards — together with FMC-ADAS, for these creating Superior Driver Assistant System (ADAS) initiatives with interfaces for cameras, radar, LIDAR, and ultrasonic sensors, the FMC-INDUSTRIAL for industrial Web of Issues (IIoT) initiatives, and the FMC-IOT board for extra common IoT purposes with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sub-GHz, and Zigbee radios plus wired Ethernet.

The bottom board, in the meantime, contains two Ethernet ports, a USB 2.0 port, HDMI video output, a full-size PCI Categorical x4 Gen. 2 slot, CAN bus, PMOD connectivity, 4 user-programmable LEDs, 4 user-accessible DIP switches, an in-built present and voltage monitor, and on-board temperature and accelerometer sensors.

On the software program entrance, Aldec is offering a board assist bundle (BSP), which features a meta layer for the Yocto Challenge to construct a suitable Linux distribution, reference designs, a reference bare-metal utility, and configurations for each the Microprocessor Subsystem (MSS) and Hart Software program Providers (HSS) points of the PolarFire SoC.

Microchip’s personal PolarFire SoC Icicle Equipment launched two years in the past, although the chip at its coronary heart solely grew to become manufacturing certified earlier this yr. Designed to attraction to these working with FPGA and RISC-V applied sciences, the event board provided a variety of capabilities together with assist for Linux and real-time working methods — even concurrently — and is the main focus of our FPGAdventures collection.

The TySOM-M is now out there with extra info on the product web page, although Aldec has not publicly confirmed pricing; it has, nevertheless, revealed plans to launch extra PolarFire SoC designs — in addition to TySOM-M variants with higher-specification PolarFire SoC chips when out there.