Based on the VORAGO Technologies' VA416x0 family, the PEB1 microcontroller unit (MCU) development kit includes a Single Board Computer (SBC) based on a 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M4 processor, manufactured with HARDSIL® technology, and two daughter cards (a GPIO board and an EBI/Ethernet board). The PEB1 Kit is intended for room temperature operations only (0C to 70C) and is not intended to be used in an oven or getting exposed to radiation.

Key features of the development kit include:

• Development Kit comprising of three PCBs and Board Support Package
• MCU Single Board Computer (which plugs into either daughter board)
  • PCB dimensions – 3.15” x 3.3”
  • 256KB boot SPI FRAM
  • 3.3V and 1.5V regulators
  • On-board power distribution and monitoring
  • On-board clock generation (20MHz – 80MHz)
  • On-board crystal oscillator (20MHz)
  • Power supplied through USB connector
  • Three LEDs: 3.3v power, J-Link OB active,1 for GPIO
  • Connectors with access to GPIO or EBI/Ethernet boards
  • SPI PMOD compatible connector
  • SpaceWire connector (micro DB9)
  • Segger J-Link OB
• Daughter card A - GPIO board
  • PCB dimensions – 5.55” x 4.95”
  • 256KB SPI FRAM
  • I2C-based accelerometer
  • Two CAN transceivers
  • Power supplied through external connectors
  • Connectors with access to MCU board
  • Headers with access to all GPIO and all analog pins
  • Three I2C, two UART, and two SPI PMOD compatible
  • connectors
• Daughter card B - EBI/Ethernet board
  • PCB dimensions – 6.95” x 5.6”
  • 512KB EBI-accessible FRAM
  • 512KB EBI-accessible SRAM
  • Two CAN transceivers
  • EBI Host port
  • Ethernet transceiver and RJ45 connector
  • Power supplied through external connectors
  • Connectors with access to MCU board
  • Headers with access to 41 GPIO and all analog pins
  • SpaceWire connector (micro DB9)

The microcontroller unit (MCU) employed within the product design, VA416x0 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M4 processor MCU, is characterized by the following features:

• Single Precision Floating Point Unit (FPU)
• DMA controller (4 channel)
• Up to 100MHz
• 64kB on-chip data, 256kB on-chip program SRAM
• EDAC and memory scrubbing
• 256kB NVM (VA41630 only)
• 104 configurable GPIO pins
• 3 UART, 3I2C, 3 SPI, 2 CAN
• Ethernet 10/100 MAC
• Spacewire
• 8-Ch ADC (12-bit, 600ksps)
• 2-Ch DAC (12-bit)
• Temp sensor

Applications of this development kit include:

• Industrial
• Oil & Gas
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Space
• Medical
• Military

Three options are available to customers:

• PEB1-VA41600 (to support VA41600 extreme temperature MCU)
• PEB1-VA41620 (to support VA41620 rad-hard MCU)
• PEB1-VA41630 (to support VA41630 with FRAM rad-hard MCU)

The software provided with this development kit includes the following:

• Board Support Package (BSP) via download
  • Example software to demonstrate all peripherals
  • CMSIS compliant
• PEB1 supported by Keil™ MDK-ARM microcontroller software kit
• IAR Systems Embedded Workbench, iSYSTEM winIDEA, GCC compiler and FreeRTOS real-time operating system