Chapter 3
FPGA platform overview
This section gives an overview of the FPGA components that are used in Cortex-M3 DesignStart Eval.
It contains the following sections:
• 3.1 System overview on page 3-25.
• 3.2 Memory map on page 3-26.
• 3.3 Block RAM instances on page 3-27.
• 3.4 External Zero Bus Turnaround SSRAM on page 3-28.
• 3.5 External PSRAM on page 3-29.
• 3.6 Arduino adapter board on page 3-30.
• 3.7 Embedded Trace Macrocell interface on page 3-31.
• 3.8 CMSDK APB subsystem on page 3-32.
• 3.9 AHB GPIO on page 3-33.
• 3.10 Serial Peripheral Interface on page 3-34.
• 3.11 Color LCD parallel interface on page 3-35.
• 3.12 Ethernet on page 3-36.
• 3.13 VGA on page 3-37.
• 3.14 Audio I
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• 3.15 Audio configuration on page 3-40.
• 3.16 FPGA system control and I/O on page 3-41.
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