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PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit User Guide
Introduction
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The PolarFire
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SoC FPGA Icicle Kit (MPFS250T-FCVG484EES) is an RoHS-compliant, cost-optimized kit with
general-purpose interfaces that enables you to evaluate features of the PolarFire SoC family of FPGAs.
User Guide
DS60001679D -
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2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries
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Summary of Contents for Microchip Technology PolarFire MPFS250T-FCVG484EES
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Page 1: Introduction
The PolarFire ® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit (MPFS250T-FCVG484EES) is an RoHS-compliant, cost-optimized kit with general-purpose interfaces that enables you to evaluate features of the PolarFire SoC family of FPGAs. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Demo Design................................20 Appendix: Programming PolarFire SoC FPGA Using the On-Board Programmer..........21 Revision History................................22 Microchip FPGA Support..............................23 Microchip Information............................... 23 Trademarks.................................. 23 Legal Notice..................................23 Microchip Devices Code Protection Feature......................24 User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 3: Getting Started
USB 2.0 micro AB connector for UART interface to PC Quickstart card Block Diagram (Ask a Question) The following block diagram shows the key components of the PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 4: Web Resources
• One SPI flash device • 40 pin raspberry Pi 4 interface connector • mikroBUS expansion port The following illustration highlights various components of the PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... - Page 5 FPGA Bank Allocation LPDDR4 SGMII B5, B1, B9, and B2 XCVRO, B1, B9 mikroBUS B1, B9, and B2 USB-UART (x4) B1, B9 USB interface SC-SPI_FLASH JTAG Header eMMC/SDIO B2, B1 User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
- Page 6 General Purpose I/O Debug Switches SW1 to SW4 For debug. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) LED1 to LED4 Four active-high LEDs connected to some of the user I/Os for debugging. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
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Page 7: Handling The Board
±5% 2.5V 1P5V_DDR3 C602 ±5% 1.5V 0P75V_VTT_DDR3 C514 ±5% 0.75V C499 ±3% 1P1V_LPDDR4 C574 ±5% 1.1V 1P2V_PHY_VSC_FP6 C587 ±5% 1.2V 3P3V C527 ±5% 3.3V VDDA C556 ±3% 1.05V User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 8: Installation And Settings
12 V power supply 5 V power supply 2P5V 2.5 V power supply VDDAUX4 Bank4 Aux voltage 3P3V 3.3 V power supply Core voltage 1.8 V power supply User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... - Page 9 Test point for PHY_Serdes transmitter output pair FIBR_DON_1 Test point for PHY_Serdes transmitter output pair FIBR_DIP_0 Test point for PHY_Serdes receiver input pair FIBR_DIN_0 Test point for PHY_Serdes receiver input pair User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
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Page 10: Power Sources
MSSIO Pre-Driver Bank Power 2.5, 3.3 VDDAUX7 GPIO Pre-Driver Bank Power 2.5, 3.3 VDDAUX9 GPIO Pre-Driver Bank Power 2.5, 3.3 XCVR_VREF All SerDes RefClk receiver's voltage reference pin 0.9/1.25 User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... - Page 11 IC REG BUCK ADJ 12 A VDDA MIC69502WR IC REG LINEAR POS ADJ 1P5V_DDR3 MIC23303YML-T5 IC REG BUCK ADJUSTABLE MIC5166YML-TR IC PWR SUP 3 A HS DDR TERM 10MLF User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
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Page 12: Board Components And Operations
• Dual power system: Core voltage (Vcc) 2.7 to 3.3 V, IO (VCCQ) voltage either: 1.7-1.95 V or 2.7-3.6 3.3.2 SD Card (Ask a Question) PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit has one SD card connector. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 13: High Speed Transceivers Configuration
• USB interface uses MSS BANK 2 • 26 MHz on board crystal for reference clock (VXM7-9029-26M0000000) Expansion Capabilities (Ask a Question) The following sections explain the expansion connectors for PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 14: Voltage And Current Monitoring
• UART interface uses GPIO BANK 1 and BANK 9 Note: The Silicon Labs CP2108 drivers are needed to see the COM ports through the J11 connector. The drivers can be downloaded from the following location: www.silabs.com/developers/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 15: Mux For Jtag Selection
FPGA fabric to provide a system reference clock. The pin number of the DSC1001DL5-050.0000 50 MHz oscillator is W12, and the pin name is HSIO92PB0/CLKIN_N_2/CCC_NW_CLKIN_N_2/CCC_NW_PLL1_OUT0. The following figure shows the 50 MHz clock oscillator interface. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... - Page 16 Board Components and Operations Figure 3-4. 50 MHz Clock Oscillator (DSC1001DL5-050.0000) 1.8V PolarFire ® SoC FPGA 50 MHz Oscillator Bank0 (DSC1001DL5-050.0000) For more information, see the Board-Level Schematics document (provided separately). User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
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Page 17: Pin List
Pin List Pin List (Ask a Question) For more information about all package pins on the PolarFire SoC, see PolarFire SoC MPFS250T_MPFS250TS-FCVG484 Package Pin Assignment Table. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 18: Board Component Placement
R101 C176 C177 R389 GND_1P8 C547 C537 C546 ICICLE Kit Rev:0.1 C535 C538 DVP-102-000536-001 The following figure shows the bottom view of the PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit silkscreen. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... - Page 19 C637 C670 C307 C617 C625 C400 C363 C396 R121 C429 R120 C194 C452 R119 C195 R118 C504 R124 C495 C553 C179 C785 C554 C178 C784 C536 BRD EDGE User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
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Page 20: Demo Design
Demo Design Demo Design (Ask a Question) For the Icicle kit reference design, see the documentation provided on GitHub. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 21: Appendix: Programming Polarfire Soc Fpga Using The On-Board Programmer
The Programmer List window in the FlashPro Express software shows the programmer name, programmer type, port, programmer status, and information about whether the programmer is enabled. When the device is programmed successfully, a Run Program PASSED status is displayed. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 22: Revision History
The following is a summary of the changes made in this revision. • Updated Table 10. • Updated the Appendix: Programming PolarFire SoC FPGA Using the On-Board Programmer. — This is the first publication of this document. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries... -
Page 23: Microchip Fpga Support
Trademarks The “Microchip” name and logo, the “M” logo, and other names, logos, and brands are registered and unregistered trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated or its affiliates and/or subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries (“Microchip Trademarks”). Information regarding Microchip Trademarks can be found at https://www.microchip.com/en-us/about/legal-... -
Page 24: Microchip Devices Code Protection Feature
Code protection does not mean that we are guaranteeing the product is “unbreakable”. Code protection is constantly evolving. Microchip is committed to continuously improving the code protection features of our products. User Guide DS60001679D - © 2024 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries...
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