The Embedded System Development Kit (ESDK) provides a powerful, low-cost solution for prototyping and rapid development of the products. The board has a powerful Altera Cyclone FPGA and has industry standard interconnections, memory subsystem, multiple clocks for system design, JTAG configuration and expansion headers which provides greater flexibility and additional user interfaces.

The SLS ESDK gives scope for designing, prototyping and testing IP cores or any hardware design using HDLs like VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog. The entire environment helps implement any processor as well as any real time operating system on the ESDK. The ESDK along with 8051 IDE serves an excellent means for system designing, prototyping and emulation. The SLS 8051 IP is pre-built and can be loaded into the FPGA. Using the 8051 IDE C and assembly programs can be downloaded and executed on the system. The SLS ESDK can be used for DSP applications by interfacing directly to a DSP processor or implementing DSP functions inside the FPGA. In short, it is a dual-purpose kit, which can be used for prototyping and developing VLSI designs as well as designing and developing microprocessor based embedded systems.

The ESDK ships with Altera starter suite software and download cable. For using additional hardware interfaces and developing advanced applications, SLS also provides Altera standard Santa Cruz snap on boards.

• Powerful Development Board for FPGA designs
  • Provides an Altera EP1C6Q240 Device and EPCS1 Configuration device
  • Supports intellectual property based (IP-based) design both with and without a microprocessor.
• Industry standard interconnection
  • USB 1.1 Port (full & low speed)
  • RS 232 Port
  • VGA Port
  • Parallel Port (IEEE1284)
  • PS/2 Port
• Memory Sub System
  • 8 MBytes of SDRAM (4M x 16)
  • 128 Kbytes of High Speed SRAM (64K x 16)
  • 2 Mbytes of FLASH (1M x 16 or 2M x 8)
  • 2 Kbytes of I²C PROM (expandable)
• Multiple Clocks for system design
• JTAG Configuration and debugging
• Expansion headers for greater flexibility and capacity
  • 5V SantaCruz long Expansion Card Header which provides 72 I/Os to enhance board functionality
• Additional user interface features
  • One user-defined 4-way DIP switch
  • Four user-defined and one reset push button switches
  • Four user-definable LEDs
  • One 16x2 character display LCD Module
  • I²C Real Time Clock
  • IDE(Hard Disk/CDROM)
• 8051 IDE

8051 IDE Features

• Cross Compiler and Assembler
  • Supports Assembly, C and mixed language ('C' + Assembly) programming and creates ROMable code / Intel HEX format file
• Emulator
  • Read and modify internal registers (registers and SFRs)
  • Read and modify external RAM locations
  • Run from a memory location
  • Load an Intel Hex file from the host computer in RAM
  • Single-step execution of a program
  • Call a user program as a subroutine
  • Dumps memory data to a terminal
  • Sets upto 4 breakpoints

• ESDK Board
• 16 x 2 Character LCD
• ByteBlaster Download Cable
• Extension Cable
• Serial Cable
• DC 6V/1.5A Power Supply
• CR2302 Lithium Cell
• CD ROM
  • Board Reference Design
  • Board Reference Manual
  • Tutorials

• Develop and test any program written in HDL
• Develop and test the various peripheral applications using Parallel, Serial, USB, PS/2 port etc.
• Develop and test the memory applications using SRAM, FLASH and I²C PROM
• Develop and test microcontroller based applications
• Develop and test display applications using VGA and LCD
• System design, prototype and emulation for 8051 using 8051 IDE

• ESDK Brochure
• ESDK Documents
• 8051 IDE
• 8051 IP Core