Starter kit accelerates DSP development

The Kria KD240 drives starter kit is a cost-optimised hardware, software, and platform solution.

It offers control system architects and embedded software developers a quick, out-of-box experience for accelerated development in robotics, drives and actuators, industrial automation and motors, Ethernet gateways and sensors, EV charging stations, medical equipment, and aerial system applications.

This starter kit, available from Mouser, is a low-cost FPGA-based motor-control and digital signal processing evaluation platform for Kria K24 system-on-modules (SOMs). The kit consists of a non-production version of the K24 SOM, a carrier card, and a passive heat sink. The SOM is very compact and only includes critical components, such as an AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC-based silicon device, memory, boot, and security module.

The carrier card includes a power solution, three Ethernet interfaces, a CAN interface, a microSD card, a three-phase power inverter, and multiple analogue-to-digital converter channels.

Terminal blocks are provided for connecting a torque sensor, a three-phase motor, and a brake control, along with single-ended and differential QEI connectors. Additional expansion options are available via an onboard 12-pin PMOD interface.

The pre-built interfaces and accelerated applications make the KD240 an ideal platform to accelerate DSP innovation and allow developers to take their ideas to volume production deployment with commercial and industrial-grade Kria K24 SOMs.