Microchip Technology Hello FPGA Kit

Microchip Technology Hello FPGA Kit is an entry-level platform that targets end-users with low to medium-field-programmable gate array knowledge. These FPGAs are used in communications, industrial, medical, defense, and aviation markets. The kit supports demos in image processing, signal processing, and artificial intelligence and can measure live FPGA core power consumption while running designs. Microchip Technology Hello FPGA Kit also allows users to freeze the design while maintaining the I/O state for low-power applications using Flash Freeze mode.

The Hello FPGA Kit features Arduino and Mikrobus connectors for flexibility when it comes to prototyping and expansion kits, allowing for easy adoption in future projects. The kit includes a Microchip PIC32 MCU that is used to program the SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA (M2S010), monitor power, and more.

Hello FPGA Kit demonstrates the following features:

Artificial intelligence: Uses parallel processing to do real-time hand-written digit recognition
Digital Signal Signal Processing: Creates FIR/FFT filters
Power monitor GUI: Shows how fast the instant-on wake-up time is while displaying power consumption for both operational and flash-freeze modes

Features

Ideal for developing control logic and data acquisition, image processing, signal processing, and artificial intelligence applications
Microcontroller Subsystem that includes a 166MHz ARM Cortex M3 processor with Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) and instruction cache, embedded flash, and extensive peripherals

Based on non-volatile, Flash-based, and low-power SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA
Ultra-low power flash-freeze feature of SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs allows retention of design while maintaining I/O state for low-power applications