Digi-Key M2S010-MKR-KIT SmartFusion2 Maker Board User Guide

Digi-Key SmartFusion® 2 Maker Board

M2S010-MKR-KIT SmartFusion2 Maker Board

Digi-Key SmartFusion2 Maker Board
Kit Contents—M2S010-MKR-KIT

Digi-Key SmartFusion® 2 Maker Board
Digi-Key’s Maker Board provides designers with a low-cost evaluation board to access the SmartFusion2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA. This device integrates a 12K LE flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 MHz ARM Cortex-M3 processor, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and general purpose GPIO interfaces all on a single chip.
The Digi-Key SmartFusion2 Maker Board (M2S010-MKR-KIT) supports a USB port for JTAG programming, UART communications, and powering the board. The board also features an SPI flash, a 50 MHz clock source, 8 user LEDS, 2 user pushbuttons, a light sensor, and the VSC8541 PHY for 100 Mbps/1 Gbps Ethernet. There are also two unpopulated laid out connections—these pinouts support an ESP8266 and an ESP32 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module (not included). The pinout is set up for programming and communication to the SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA. The board can be used with Microsemi’s Libero SoC v11.8 software or more recent versions of it. SoftConsole, an IDE for C/C++ programming of the ARM Cortex-M3 is available. The kit is powered through an LX7167A power module and includes integrated FlashPro5 programming hardware.
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Pin Labels

LEDs (Red)

Push Buttons

ESP8266 Module

ESP32 Wi-Fi-BT-BLE Module

*Set jumpstart to Wi-Fi module to activate pin.

Software and Licensing
Libero® SoC Design Suite offers high productivity with its comprehensive, easy-to-learn, easyto-adopt development tools for designing with Microsemi’s low power Flash FPGAs and SoC.
The suite integrates industry standard Synopsys Synplify Pro® synthesis and Mentor Graphics ModelSim® simulation with best-in-class constraints management and debug capabilities.
Download the latest Libero SoC release
www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/design-resources/design- software/liberosoc#downloads
Generate a Libero SoC Silver license for your board
www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/design- resources/licensing
Download the SoftConsole IDE installation files for Linux and Windows at
www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/design-resources/design- software/softconsole#downloads
Documentation Resources
For more step by step instructions about the Digi-Key Maker board, including user’s guides, tutorials, and design examples, see the documentation at www.digikey.com/smartfusion2-makerboard
Included Demo Design
When the Digikey SmartFusion2 Maker Board is powered on, all 8 LEDs will flash on and off repeatedly. Once user button 1 is pressed, the ambient light sensor will be continuously read.
The result of the light sensor reading will be shown visually across the 8 LEDs as a bar graph.

Board Schematic

References

• Microsemi | Semiconductor & System Solutions | Power Matters
• Microsemi | Semiconductor & System Solutions | Power Matters

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