November 22, 2011 -- ORSoC has designed a new OpenRISC FPGA-development board that is specially designed to match OpenRISC processor SOC designs. The board supports the most common interfaces, with a small physical size and easy connections/ debugging solution.

The board enables easy access to the OpenRISC platform and gives the designer a fast start. The board is shipped with a pre-defined OpenRISC SoC design and includes everything to make sure you have an OpenRISC processor system quickly up and running. ORSoC has also created a new VirtualBox-image with all OpenRISC tools pre-installed and with detailed how-to guides, focused on making sure that all users can get started easily using the OpenRISC processor FPGA design.

The development kit includes:

Altera Cyclone IV E, 22K LUT/ 32-Mbyte SDRAM . 1-Mbyte SPI Flash. SDIO micro connector. Fast Ethernet. USB "on-the-go" Host/Slave. USB power, configuration, UARTs. Expansion connectors (optional).

The board measures 80x40mm and contains two optional connectors on the bottom side with GPIO signals, making the board expandable. To make it easy for the end user, only one USB cable is needed to get started. The USB connector provides the following functions:

Power. Two JTAG interfaces (used for programming the FPGA, external SPI-Flash and OpenRISC debugging via GDB). Two UART interfaces.

This board is an all-in-one solution that combines hardware, FPGA reference design, software and a pre-installed VirtualBox-image with all the tools and how-to guides needed to get started easily.

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