Microsemi ProASIC3/E Proto Kit User manual

UG0048
User Guide
ProASIC3/E Starter Kit

50200048. 5.1 3/17
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Contents
1 Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Revision 5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Revision 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.3 Revision 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.4 Revision 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Contents and System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1 Kit Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3 Hardware Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1 ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2 Board Description and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3 PLL Parts and Usage on ProASIC3/E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3.1 Instructions for PLL Activation on Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4 Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4.1 Power Supply Connections of Daughter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4.2 Power Supplies and Chaining Boards Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5 Programming the ProASIC3/E Device with FlashPro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.1 Connecting the FlashPro4 Programmer to the Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.2 Programming or Re-Programming the Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.3 Jumpers for Isolating Switches and LEDs from FPGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.6 Clock Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6.1 40 MHz Oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.7 LED Device Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.8 Switches Device Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.9 LVDS Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4 Setup and Self Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.1 Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3 Testing the Starter Kit Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4 Programming the Test File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5 Description of Test Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6 LVDS Signal Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1 Hardware Test Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2 Design Test Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.3 Measurement Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7 Testing the Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1 Equipment Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1.1 Equipment Provided to Testing Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1.2 Testing Facility Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.2 Test Procedure for the A3PE-STARTER-KIT-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.2.1 Initial Power-On Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.2.2 Testing Board Functionality with A3PE1500-PQ208 Silicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8 Appendix: PQ208 Package Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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8.1 I/O Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.2 208-Pin PQFP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9 Appendix: Board Schematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.1 Top-Level View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
9.2 ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board Schematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Figures
Figure 1 ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board: Top-Level View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Figure 2 Power Supply Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Figure 3 Design Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 4 Data Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 5 TX Portion of Test Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 6 LVDS Signal across RX Termination at 300 Mbps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Figure 7 208-Pin PQFP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Figure 8 Top-Level View of ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Figure 9 Bottom-Level View of ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Figure 10 Bottom-Level View of ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Figure 11 ProASIC3 FPGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Figure 12 Push-Button and Hex Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Figure 13 FPGA Headers and Expansion Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Figure 14 Clocks Oscillators and Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Figure 15 Decoupling Caps, Test Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Figure 16 LVDS Signal Routing Via CAT-5E Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Tables
Table 1 Kit Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Table 2 Summary of Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Table 3 LED Device Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Table 4 Switch Device Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Table 5 Color Convention on CAT 5E Primary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Table 6 Color Convention on CAT 5E Secondary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Table 7 FPGA – LVDS I/O Pin Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Table 8 Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Table 9 Device Connections for 208-Pin PQFP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Revision History
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1 Revision History
The revision history describes the changes that were implemented in the document. The changes are
listed by revision, starting with the most current publication.
1.1 Revision 5.1
Component description, connection section of OLED, OLED manufacturing test, and board image are
updated.
1.2 Revision 5.0
The following was a summary of the changes in revision 5.0 of this document.
• The part number for the ProASIC3/E Starter Kit was changed from A3PE-STARTER-KIT to
A3PE-STARTER-KIT-2 (SAR 42164).
• In the "FPGA – OLED Interface" section, PMO13701 was corrected to PMO18701 (SAR 42164).
1.3 Revision 4.0
Libero IDE software has been updated to Libero SoC throughout the document (SAR 36951).
1.4 Revision 3.0
The silicon for this kit has been updated, so the document has been updated accordingly (SAR 27883).

Contents and System Requirements
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2 Contents and System Requirements
This section details the contents of the ProASIC3/E Starter Kit and lists the power supply and software
system requirements.
2.1 Kit Contents
The following table lists the contents of the ProASIC3/E Starter Kit.
Table 1 • Kit Contents
Item Quantity
ProsASIC3/E Starter Kit Board with an A3PE1500-PQG208 1
FlashPro4 programmer 1
9 V power supply with international adapters 1
Quickstart card 1

Hardware Components
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3 Hardware Components
This section describes the hardware components of the ProASIC3/E Starter Kit board.
3.1 ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board
Figure 1, page 4 illustrates a top-level view of the ProASIC3/E Starter Kit board.
The ProASIC3/E Starter Kit board consists of the following:
• Wall mount power supply connector, with a switch and a LED indicator
• Switches to select from among 1.5 V, 1.8 V, 2.5 V, and 3.3 V — I/O voltages on banks 4 and 5
(southern side)
• 10-pin 0.1 inch pitch programming connector compatible with Altera connections
• 40 MHz oscillator and two independent manual clock options for global reset and pulse
• Eight LEDs (driven by outputs from the device)
• Jumpers (allow disconnection of all external circuitry from the FPGA)
• Two mono stable pulse generator switches (global and reset)
• Four switches (provide input to the device)
• Two hex switches to provide four inputs each to the FPGA, and which are set to a user-switchable
hexadecimal input value
For more information, see Appendix: PQ208 Package Connections, page 22 and Appendix: Board
Schematics, page 26.

Hardware Components
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3.2 Board Description and Usage
The ProASIC3/E Starter Kit board is socketed and is populated with A3PE1500-PQ208 silicon. Any
ProASIC3 device can be used, as all devices in both the ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E families are
available in the PQ208 package.
Note: Device Pin-out is different among ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E device families. For more information about
pinouts, see https://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/fpga/proasic3-e#documents.
A block diagram of the ProASIC3/E Starter kit board is shown in the following figure and will facilitate
understanding of the more detailed schematics shown in the Appendix: Board Schematics, page 26.
Figure 1 • ProASIC3/E Starter Kit Board: Top-Level View
Full schematics are available for download from the Microsemi SoC Products Group website. The
electronic versions of the dedicated schematics can be enlarged to a far greater degree than shown in
the printed version of this manual or even in the electronic version of this manual, hence the interested
reader is referred to the dedicated schematics to see the appropriate level of detail.