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SECTION 01 INTERACTIVE FPGA DESIGN NANOBOARD-NB1 2004 4 Why should I use Altium’s NanoBoard over other development boards? Fully LiveDesign enabled for seamless integration with Altium’s 2004 family of design tools Multiple target devices are included Vendor-independence is supported by having the reprogrammable device (FPGA, CPLD) on a daughter board; the target is changed by replacing one daughter board with another A complex system of NanoBoards running the same or different projects can be created by chaining several NanoBoards together Working with FPGAbased user boards only requires a JTAG connection since the NanoBoard acts to control the design download to the user board plus all interactions with processors and virtual instruments A rich set of peripherals and connectors are included on the board for design flexibility Interactive FPGA design with the NanoBoard The NanoBoard is a unique, sophisticated, device- and vendorindependent FPGA-based development board that allows rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of FPGA designs. Altium’s new NanoBoard (nano-level breadboard) is the industry’s first FPGA-based, LiveDesign-enabled development board. The NanoBoard allows rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of FPGA designs and has been specially designed to take full advantage of Altium’s 2004 family of LiveDesign-enabled design tools. Target programmable devices are housed on plug-in daughter boards, enabling engineers to easily change the target project architecture, providing a truly FPGA vendor-independent development board. For flexible systems design, multiple NanoBoards can be chained together to support the development of complex systems comprising of multiple FPGA devices spread across multiple PCBs. Connections on the NanoBoard for user-developed boards enables easy porting of designs to your own dedicated PCB, which can be linked into the system via the NanoBoard to extend the LiveDesign process to the production PCB. As well as providing communications to and from the FPGA, the NanoBoard incorporates a wide range of peripherals such as an LCD, RAM, serial flash memory, keypad and ADC/DAC that can easily be used for application development. Ports on the NanoBoard include PS2, RS232, CAN, VGA, and I2C, as well as a range of general purpose I/O headers. The NanoBoard, in combination with Altium’s extensive range of LiveDesign-enabled electronics development tools, will transform your desktop into a complete and interactive FPGA-based electronics design laboratory. FPGA vendor and target independent The NanoBoard features swappable daughter boards that house the target programmable device. This allows easy reconfiguration of the NanoBoard to support multiple device families from different FPGA vendors. Altium’s LiveDesign-enabled design systems, such as Protel ® and Nexar , take full advantage of this by offering a device-independent design environment that allows a single design to be retargeted to a wide range of programmable devices, providing true design portability. Cyclone Plug-in daughter boards with Altera ® (EP1C12-Q240C7) and Xilinx ® Spartan ® (XC2S300E- PQ208) FPGAs are supplied as standard with the NanoBoard. Change the target FPGA easily by swapping daughter boards. The system will automatically recognise the installed device. NanoBoard-NB1 2004 – LiveDesign-enabled FPGA-based development board www.altium.com/nanoboard
Build a complex system by daisy chaining multiple NanoBoards. Chaining of multiple NanoBoards The NanoBoard includes both Master and Slave NanoTalk connectors that allow multiple NanoBoards to be chained together when used with Altium’s LiveDesign-enabled design systems. The NanoTalk controller manages the routing of signals between the boards to maintain continuity of the JTAG chains across NanoBoards. The target device on each NanoBoard forms a hard JTAG chain that is accessible via the system software. Similarly, all devices (such as Nexus processor cores and virtual instruments contained within the designs) running on each of the NanoBoards form a continuous ‘soft’ chain that is also accessible via the design software. The system software allows you to target different FPGA projects to each NanoBoard in the chain, allowing you to develop complex systems that contain multiple FPGAs that may be implemented over several PCBs. Connect your production board to the design system via the NanoBoard and continue the LiveDesign process on the final PCB. Connection of production PCBs The NanoBoard includes connectors for the integration of a designer’s production PCB into the LiveDesign environment. By exposing the hard and soft JTAG chains in your design, you can connect your production PCB to the NanoBoard via a 10-way header. The JTAG devices on your board will appear in the LiveDesign-enabled design environment as devices on the hard JTAG chain. Soft devices such as Nexus process cores and virtual instruments running on the FPGAs on your production board will appear in the soft chain and are accessible through the design environment. This extends the LiveDesign process to the design and debugging of your production board. Up to two user boards can be connected to each NanoBoard in the system. Features overview The NanoBoard is fully compatible with all Altium DXP 2004-based systems FPGA vendor and device independent Plug-in daughter board system supports a wide range of target FPGAs Altera ® Cyclone (EP1C12- Q240C7) daughter board supplied Xilinx ® Spartan ® IIE (XC2S300E-PQ208) daughter board supplied Other device daughter boards can be purchased separately System automatically detects installed FPGA device Multiple NanoBoards can be chained together – NanoBoard controller manages routing of hard and soft JTAG chains Up to two user boards can be connected to the NanoBoard with automatic routing of hard and soft JTAG chains Includes power pack with multiple plugs for various electrical outlet configurations Includes ribbon cable for PC connection plus other cables and connectors Extensive NanoBoard technical hardware reference manual Peripherals include: LCD, LED array, switch array, keypad, buzzer, ADC/DAC, 256K x 8 RAM, 8M serial flash RAM, on-board serial flash RAM for FPGA config, programmable clock Ports include: PS2 mouse and keyboard, RS232, CAN, VGA, I2C, general purpose I/O headers continued overleaf SECTION 01 INTERACTIVE FPGA DESIGN NANOBOARD-NB1 2004 5
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