Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation Kit makes it easy to develop secure embedded systems and provides the best-in-world solutions for both Design Security—when protecting your design IP is critical; and Data Security—when protecting application data is necessary.
The kit provides a cost effective SoC field programmable gate array (FPGA) platform for developing cost-optimized SoC FPGA designs using Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs, which integrate inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 MHz ARM® Cortex®-M3 processor, advanced security processing accelerators, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and industry-required high-performance communication interfaces—all on a single chip. In addition, the SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation comes with a large 90K LE device to make it easy to develop transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs to build PCI Express® and Gigabit Ethernet-based systems and also have room for large IP blocks to complement the design.
The board is also small form-factor PCIe compliant, which will allow quick prototyping and evaluation using any desktop PC or laptop with a PCIe slot.
The kit enables you to:
• Evaluate the Data Security features of SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs including:
– Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
– SRAM-PUF (Physically Unclonable Function)
– Random Number Generator (RNG)
– AES/SHA
– Anti-Tamper
• Develop and test PCI Express Gen2 x1 lane designs
• Test the signal quality of the FPGA transceiver using full-duplex SERDES SMA Pairs
• Measure the low power consumption of the SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA
• Quickly create a working PCIe link with the included PCIe Control Plane Demo
The board includes an RJ45 interface to 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 512 MB of LPDDR, 64 MB SPI Flash, and USB-UART connections, as well as I2C, SPI, and GPIO headers. The kit includes a 12 V power adapter, but can also be powered through the PCIe edge connector. Also included is a free Platinum License for the Libero SoC software toolset to enable FPGA development and to utilize the reference designs made available with the kit.
Features
Kit Contents:
1x SmartFusion®2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA 90K LE M2S090TS-FGG484 Evaluation Board
1x USB A male to micro-B male cable
1x 12 V, 2 A AC power adapter
1x Quickstart guide
1x Libero® System-on-Chip (SoC) Platinum software one year license
1x FlashPro4 programmer
