Objective

This wiki describes the differents elements for the Project SOC laboratory. A system based on the DE0-nano-SOC board (Terasic) is used. It contains mainly a FPGA CycloneV with 2 ARM-A9 processors and an interesting area of FPGA and memory.

General Bloc Diagram

Base System: Terasic DE0-nano-SoC board

• Cyclone V SoC with Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 (HPS)
• 1GB DDR3 SDRAM (32-bit data bus)(HPS)
• Arduino Expansion Header (Uno R3 Compatibility),
• UART-to-USB,
• USB OTG Port,
• Micro SD Card Socket,
• Gigabit  Ethernet and
• 2x 40 pins GPIO Headers

The full description of this board can be found on the manufacturer web site:

• http://www.terasic.com.tw/attachment/archive/941/DE0-Nano-SoC_User_manual.pdf

Hardware Design Extension

A specific extension board is developped to have nice laboratories for the students.

• LCD-TFT, VGA with different size supported + Touch Screen
• 2x Servo motors for a pan-tilt camera control
• PAL camera + Video decoder PAL --> digital YCrCb 4:2:2
• Thermal Camera 80x64 pixels on SPI/i2c
• VGA Camera extension OV7670
• Camera module extension
• Bluetooth HC-05 extension
• WiFi extension (ESP8266-1)
• Joystick
• LEDs RGB 
• PIR sensor
• Misc I/O through i2c controlled parallel port PCA9673

Software part

Baremetal software with ARM-DS5

Linux implementation

Tutorials

• Using the LCDs with Linux