M1AFS-EMBEDDED-KIT Actel, M1AFS-EMBEDDED-KIT Datasheet - Page 30

• Manufacturer Part Number: M1AFS-EMBEDDED-KIT
• Description: MCU, MPU & DSP Development Tools CortexM1-enabled Fusion Embedded Kit
• Manufacturer: Actel

Specifications of M1AFS-EMBEDDED-KIT

• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

Cortex-M1 Design Entry Flow
Figure 5-2 • Cortex-M1 System
Cortex-M1 Security
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Use SmartDesign to create a Cortex-M1 based system. The external AHB-Lite interface of Cortex-M1
should be used to master an instance of CoreAHBLite through which the processor can communicate
with a range of other AMBA components. The SmartDesign Auto Connect feature can be used to make
many of the required connections in a system after you have selected the necessary components and
instantiated these on the SmartDesign canvas. A screenshot of an example Cortex-M1 system created in
SmartDesign is shown in
The majority of the Cortex-M1 core is contained within a black box CDB file that allows users to access
the top level I/O and use the core in Actel M1 devices, but not view the contents of the black box. The
black box cannot be unlocked and can only be programmed into an Actel M1 device. The CDB file
includes placement and routing information meaning that the location of the processor is fixed within the
FPGA fabric of the target device. Timing shells are included as part of the Cortex-M1 delivery from Actel
to model the timing at the interface of the CDB. These timing shells are automatically handled by the
tools in the Libero IDE and their use is transparent to the Cortex-M1 user.
Figure 5-2 on page
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