Introduction

Microchip’s SmartFusion development kit offers a full-featured development board for SmartFusion Customizable System-On-Chip (cSoC) devices. These are the only devices that integrate an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), an ARM^® Cortex^®-M3 microcontroller, and programmable analog, offering full customization, Internet Protocol (IP) protection, and ease-of-use.

The device has on-chip SRAM and flash memory, as well as additional off-chip memory on the board. The board also includes LEDs, switches, and various analog experimentation features such as voltage rail monitoring, current Potentiometers (POTs), temperature diodes, and voltage sweeping using Active Bipolar Prescalers (ABPS). Networking interfaces include Ethernet Physical (PHY), Controller Area Network (CAN), Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART), and RS485.