FPGA and 32-bit MCU add punch to development board

14th September 2018

Mick Elliott

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The MKR VIDOR 4000 development board from Arduino is in stock at Mouser Electronics. The MKR VIDOR 4000 lets engineers essentially create their own controller board, boasting an array of robust hardware plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity on top of an Intel Cyclone 10 field programmable gate array (FPGA) and Microchip SAM D21 microcontroller.

The development board incorporates an Intel Cyclone 10 FPGA with 16K logic elements and 504 Kbytes of embedded RAM, plus a 32-bit Microchip SAM D21 Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller with 256Kbytes of flash memory and 32Kbytes of SRAM.

The board also offers a 2Mbyte QSPI flash chip, 8Mbytes of SDRAM, and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and dual-mode Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity.

Other board features include a Mini PCI Express connector with up to 25 user-programmable pins, MIPI camera connector, and a Micro HDMI connector.

It has 56 18-bit × 18-bit hardware multipliers for high-speed DSP applications. The FPGA pins can toggle up to 150MHz and can also be configured as common communications ports such as UART, I²C, and SPI, making it ideal for audio and video processing.

The board also includes a Microchip ECC608 CryptoAuthentication IC, which combines hardware-based key storage with hardware cryptographic accelerators to implement various authentication and encryption protocols.

It uses the Arduino MKR form factor and pinout on the standard analogue and digital pins, allowing engineers to add shields and accessories designed for other MKR boards.