FMC-IOT Internet-of-Things Daughter Card

FMC-IOT daughter card provides a set of peripherals and interfaces commonly used in embedded designs and being the key enabling Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. There are various wireless communication standards used in such designs and this board enables prototyping with any of the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Sub-GHz RF devices as well as wired Ethernet and USB. It extends functionality of Aldec’s Main FPGA boards if given interfaces are not available on them or if they are required to be connected to another FPGA on the main board. Typical applications for this daughter card are ASIC/SoC physical prototyping, In Circuit Emulation (ICE) or evaluation and prototyping of embedded and IoT designs.

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FMC-IOT Internet-of-Things Daughter Card

Components & Interfaces

Wireless / RF
- Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n
- Bluetooth Interface (Bluetooth 4.1 compliance) with BLE
- IEEE 802.15.4 standard
  - ZigBee,
  - 6LoWPAN,
  - RF4CE,
  - SP100,
  - WirelessHART
- Sub-GHz Interfaces
  - Sigfox,
  - WMBus,
  - SUN interfaces compliant with 802.15.4g
Wired
- Gigabit Ethernet (DP83867E PHY)
- RS-485/Profibus interface
- 3 in one Mini PCI Express / USB 2.0 / Micro-SIM Card Socket
  - USB 2.0 Transceiver
  - Micro-SIM Card Socket
- SATA host interface

Memory

Micro SD card socket
64 kB EEPROM (to accomplish ANSI/VITA 57.1 FMC standard)

Clocking

2x oscillators 100 MHz, 200 MHz
1x clock for SATA (150 MHz)

Connectivity

Main board connector:
- FPGA Mezzanine Card connector compliant with ANSI/VITA 57.1 FMC Standard
2x6 Digilent Pmod™ compatible header
External I2C connector