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PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit


CPU

PolarFire SoC FPGA (MPFS250T-FCVG484EES)

  • SiFive E51 Monitor core (1 x RV64IMAC)
  • SiFive U54 Application cores (4 x RV64GC)
  • and Secure boot

Memory and storage

  • 2 GB LPDDR4 x 32
  • 1 Gb SPI flash
  • 8 GB eMMC flash & SD card slot (multiplexed)

Programming & Debugging

Onboard JTAG connector or onboard embedded FlashPro (multiplexed)

  • UART via micro USB
  • 52 x test points

Interfaces

  • 4 x 12.7 Gbps SERDES
  • PCIe Gen2 Rootport
  • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • Micro USB 2.0 Hi-Speed OTG
  • 4 x UART (via single micro USB)
  • 2 x CAN
  • 2 x SPI
  • 2 x I²C

Expansion

  • Raspberry Pi compatible 40-pin header
  • mikroBUS socket

Sensor

  • Power sensor (pac1934)

Buttons and LEDs

Buttons

There are 3 buttons and reset button. The Reset button is not available to software by default.

LEDs

There is 4 user controlled on-board LEDs.

Configurations

nsh

Basic configuration to run the NuttShell (nsh).

hwtest ---

Configuration to run the NuttShell (nsh) and enabling the peripherals.

The following peripherals are configured: - I2C0 & I2C1 - Ethernet on MAC 1, configured to 1Gbit speed - USB (high speed) + CDCACM - SDCard - SPI0 & SPI1 - UART0-4 - CorePWM (nb. needs the FPGA IP installed to work) - CoreSPI (nb. needs the FPGA IP installed to work)

The following applications are available: - TelnetD (at address 10.0.0.2) - tcpblaster & udpblaster - ostest