2021

Hardware in the Loop (HIL) has the potential to simplify the functional validation, reduce the test duration, and significantly increase the test coverage. Beyond that, integrating real-world peripherals early in the design and verification phase allows developers to gain deeper insights into the embedded system and generate reliable data before application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturing.

With the “FPGA Peripheral Board”, we provide a configurable and scalable solution to test a wide variety of interfaces and sensors. The FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) connector allows the use it together with most FPGA development systems. The board itself hosts multiple memories (Hyper Flash/RAM, SPI Flash, I2C EEPROM) and two digital microphones (I2S). In addition to these basic peripherals, it can be extended with two energy monitored M.2 sized cards. Together with the carrier board, the initial design comes with M.2 cards for RPC DRAM, PSRAM, uSD cards, CPI, and CPI-to-CSI interfaces, and a measurement adapter.