About this book
This book describes how to use the FPGA platform in the ARM Versatile
™
Express Cortex
®
-M
Prototyping System to evaluate a design developed using Cortex-M3 DesignStart
™
Eval.
Product revision status
The rmpn identifier indicates the revision status of the product described in this book, for example, r1p2,
where:
rm Identifies the major revision of the product, for example, r1.
pn Identifies the minor revision or modification status of the product, for example, p2.
Intended audience
This book is written for hardware engineers, software engineers, system integrators, and system
designers, who might not have previous experience of ARM products, but want to run a complete
example of a working system.
Using this book
This book is organized into the following chapters:
Chapter 1 Introduction
This chapter introduces Cortex-M3 DesignStart Eval and gives an overview of the FPGA
Evaluation Flow, its directory structure, and limitations.
Chapter 2 Using the prebuilt FPGA image
Cortex-M3 DesignStart Eval includes a prebuilt FPGA image file of the Cortex-M3 DesignStart
Eval example system. This chapter describes how to set up the MPS2+ platform to load the
prebuilt file and run a self-test program.
Chapter 3 FPGA platform overview
This section gives an overview of the FPGA components that are used in Cortex-M3 DesignStart
Eval.
Chapter 4 Clocks
This chapter describes the source and derived clocks for the FPGA design.
Chapter 5 Serial Communication Controller
This chapter describes the Serial Communication Controller (SCC) used in the Cortex-M3
DesignStart Eval FPGA image.
Chapter 6 FPGA build
This chapter describes the steps that are required to build an FPGA bit file from the supplied
source code.
Chapter 7 Integrating with mbed
™
OS
This chapter describes the support available for integrating the FPGA system with mbed OS.
Chapter 8 Performance and utilization
This chapter describes the performance, resources, and utilization for the default system of the
FPGA design in Cortex-M3 DesignStart Eval.
Appendix A Revisions
This appendix describes the technical changes between released issues of this book.
Glossary
The ARM
®
Glossary is a list of terms used in ARM documentation, together with definitions for those
terms. The ARM Glossary does not contain terms that are industry standard unless the ARM meaning
differs from the generally accepted meaning.
Preface
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