ARM Emulation Boards
ARMŽ emulation in real time is the key to ARMSOC designs.
The major driving forces behind modern day SOC design are IP (Intellectual Property) evaluation, hardware-software co-development, and full ASIC verification. Systems that would previously be made with discrete components are now integrated on a single chip and new design flows are necessary to overcome previously insignificant problems such as bus structures, test bench modelling and the ability to debug many different scenarios in a short time.
The main concern for all ASIC designers is whether the chip will work or not. The ability to emulate both software and hardware together, at speed, helps in reaching this goal. The range of stackable boards that are available on the market today only allow you to partially emulate your ASIC because they do not give you source code access to critical blocks such as bus decoders and peripherals. This means that you can only develop your software on a hardware platform that partially corresponds to the hardware under development.
SIDSA offers a line of ARM emulation products which allow you to emulate software and hardware together. Only one board is required to do this, you do not have to buy any additional "stacked" boards. The products feature an on-board ARM7TDMITM or other core and a choice of up to 400k or 1M ASIC gates.
CARMeN Core ARM emulatioN for Embedded SOC and Software Co-Development
Product Highlights
- Supports ARM7TDMI™ and other processors
- 1 Million ASIC gates (XILINX VIRTEX XCV2000E or ALTERA APEX 20K1000) or
- 1.5 Million ASIC gates (ALTERA APEX 20K1500)
- 30+ MHz configurable system clock
- Totally compatible with standard ARM Multi-ICEŽ, SDT, Embedded ICE and Lauterbach Emulators
- RTS loading/debugging (JTAG Enabled ARM)
- Software/hardware compatible ARM PID7T (also header card connectors), Integrator
- RTOS BSP for pSOS, VxWorks, OS9 etc. available from RTOS vendors
- User configurable resident memory map
- Slot for expandable SDRAM up to 256Mbytes
- 4Mbyte FLASH
- 1Mbyte high speed SRAM (15ns)
- Physical Interfaces:
- Smart Card (buffers ISO7816 card slot)
- CAN Bus
- PCMCIA
- PCI 3.3v
- USB (host & peripheral)
- IrDA
- Source code IPs (Supplied as standard):
- AMBA compatible decoder
- APB bridge
- SRAM & FLASH controller
- Timers
- UART
- Programable Interrupt Controller
- REMAP
- Tristating the on-board ARM7TDMI with a switch allows the CARMeN to
be used with other ARM uC cores mounted on a header card. Cards available to support:
- ARM 720
- ARM 940 / 9TDMI
- ARM 946
SIDSA CARMeN Board
IPs (Optional)
You can also benefit from optional IPs which include software drivers for SIDSA’s HAL.
- C740 Compatible Cache controller
- SDRAM controller
- USB Controller (hub & peripheral)
- RSA / DES / Triple DES
- DVB MPEG Descrambler
- Smart Card Controller (ISO7816)
Call us for more details on any of these, tel: +44 (0)1962 841290 or email: sales@nohau.co.uk
SIDSA IPs
Further Information
For more detail and information download the following (all in PDF format):
| Document | Xilinx | Altera |
| CARMEN Development Board User Guide | V.3  (440KB) >>> |
V.3 (120KB) >>> |
| CARMEN Development Board Reference Guide | V.3 (316KB) >>> |
V.3 (274KB) >>> |
| CARMeN AMBATM-compatible Default Configuration Reference Guide. | V.3 (587KB) >>> |
V.3 (125KB) >>> |