2.9.2 Design Hardware

Microchip’s IGLOO2 evaluation kit (M2GL-EVAL-KIT) is a low-cost platform to evaluate various features offered by IGLOO2 devices.

The kit includes a M2GL010T-1FGG484 device. The board includes an RJ45 interface to 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 512 Mb of LPDDR, 64 Mb SPI Flash, USB-UART connections as well as I2C, SPI, and GPIO headers. The kit includes a 12V power supply but can also be powered through the PCIe edge connector. The kit also includes a FlashPro4 JTAG programmer for programming and debugging.

The following figure shows the board image of the IGLOO2 evaluation kit.

Figure 2-1. IGLOO2 Evaluation Kit