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TITLE: ATMEL FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM STARTER KIT
From jrosenberg@atmel.com Mon Feb 5 19:49 EST 2001
To: dbouldin@utk.edu
Cc: mmason@atmel.com jkatz@atmel.com
Subject: Atmel's FPSLIC, Starter Kit and University Program
Dear Professor Bouldin,
First, thank you very much for your interest in Atmel's new
FPSLIC family of devices. I was referred to you by my colleague,
Martin Mason, regarding the possibility of using FPSLIC and it's
associated design tools and ATSTK94 Starter Kit in University
programs.
Atmel recently introduced FPSLIC, Field Programmable System Level
Integration Circuits, which essentially bring the benefits of
Programmability to System-on-Chip design. The first family
consists of embedded 10K-40K gates of AT40K FPGA, 8-bit AVR RISC
microcontroller, 36K bytes program & data RAM and several
dedicated peripherals, include UARTs, hardware multiplier, I2C,
and others. Additional custom peripherals can be created in the
FPGA and memory mapped directly in the address space of the
microcontroller. The entire device is SRAM-based, allowing both
the instruction set for the microcontroller and the hardware code
for the FPGA to be reconfigured in real time, any number of
times. Device performance is rated at 20MIPS running at 25MHz.
The tool set is completely integrated and includes everything
necessary to implement designs -- including complete FPGA and AVR
microcontroller tools, along with Exemplar Synthesis, Model Tech
Simulator and Mentor's Seamless Co-verification tools. The
Coverification tools are the first offered for programmable
design -- significantly reducing design time, cost and risk by
enabling hardware & software co-design and verification in the
beginning of the design process.
ATSTK94 FPSLIC Starter Kit for Professional design engineers and
Engineering Students
Atmel has created a Starter Kit that is intended for professional
engineers and Engineering curriculums. The ATSTK94 Starter Kit
allows the professor to create derivative teaching material and
information that is optimized for their teaching environment.
Atmel can provide copyrighted materials and the ATSTK94 Starter
Kit for the professor's use in developing course curriculum using
Atmel's FPSLIC devices.
The STK94 is a system-chip design tool that includes the
following:
- User Guides customers step by step through the design process
- FPSLIC System Designer tool w/4 month license
- Synthesis/VHDL Simulator/Co-verification
- AVR studio debugger
- FPGA Place and Route IDS7
- IAR and Imagecraft C compiler (one month trial period)
- Comprehensive development board
- Design examples
- AT94K40 FPSLIC device
- AT17LV010 Configurator
- 2 Serial Ports
- Programmable switches & LEDs
- ISP cables for programming Configurator
The professor can use the ATSTK94 to create derivative teaching
materials to distribute, under license, to the student for SOC
design.
Atmel suggests the following curriculum for engineering schools:
1) Introduction to Microcontrollers and FPGAs
2) Embedded Systems Design
3) System-On-Chip (SOC) design using Co-verification
The introduction to microcontrollers and FPGAs becomes more
valuable and efficient when it features and is coordinated with
the microcontroller and FPGA used in embedded systems and the IP
that is later reused in system chips.
The ATSTK94 Starter Kit is an excellent way for professors to
teach and students to learn SOC design. The advantage of using
Atmel's FPSLIC is the ease of creating new design projects and
applications using System Designer software and the infinite
reprogrammabiilty of Atmel's AT94K series FPSLIC devices. I have
attached two slides (pdf) on FPSLIC and the starter kit for your
reference. Additional information can be found by visiting
Atmel's website at ATMEL.
Thank you again and regards,
Joel Rosenberg
Director
Programmable System Level Integration
Atmel Corporation
2325 Orchard Pkwy.
San Jose, CA 95131
(408) 436-4290 phone
(408)487-2637 fax
jrosenberg@atmel.com
Atmel University Program
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ATMEL FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM STARTER KIT
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DATE: February 2001
TITLE: ATMEL FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM STARTER KIT
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