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Development Boards

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ARM development boards are the ideal platform for accelerating the development and reducing the risk of new SoC designs. The combination of ASIC and FPGA technology in ARM boards delivers an optimal solution in terms of speed, accuracy, flexibility and cost.

ARM development boards are often used to:

  • Evaluate, benchmark and start software development on the latest ARM processors
  • Prototype, validate and develop software drivers for new SoC IP blocks - for example, a modem or video engine
  • Test custom logic blocks or system IP in an FPGA, connected to an ARM core running at ASIC speed

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The product selector table below shows which ARM CPU types are supported by each board family. For more information about each family, please click  the tabs above, or in the 'Quick Links' on the left side of this page. If the product of interest does not appear here look under legacy boards.

ARM CPU CORE Versatile™ Express Versatile KEIL mbed
APP Cortex™-A15 MPCore Hard silicon CPU core Soft FPGA-based CPU core
Cortex-A9 MPCore Hard silicon CPU core
Cortex-A8 Soft FPGA-based CPU core
Cortex-A7 Hard silicon CPU core
Cortex-A5 MPCore Hard silicon CPU core

Cortex-A57

Soft FPGA-based CPU core
Embedded Cortex-R5 MPCore Soft FPGA-based CPU core
Cortex-R7 MPCore Soft FPGA-based CPU core
Cortex-M4 Hard silicon CPU core
Cortex-M3 Hard silicon CPU core Hard silicon CPU core
Cortex-M0 Hard silicon CPU core Hard silicon CPU core
Classic ARM11™ MPCore Hard silicon CPU core
ARM1176JZF-S™ Hard silicon CPU core
ARM1136JF-S™ Hard silicon CPU core
ARM1156T2-S™ Hard silicon CPU core
ARM968E-S™ Hard silicon CPU core Hard silicon CPU core
ARM966E-S™ Hard silicon CPU core Hard silicon CPU core
ARM926EJ-S™ Hard silicon CPU core
ARM7TDMI™ Hard silicon CPU core Hard silicon CPU core

Key:
Hard silicon CPU coreHard silicon CPU core
Soft FPGA-based CPU core Soft FPGA-based CPU core

For development with standard (off-the-shelf) ARM-based microcontroller parts, Keil offers a large range of evaluation boards with Cortex-M3, ARM7 and ARM9 support.


 

  The Versatile™ Express product family of development boards provides the right environment for prototyping the next generation of system-on-chip designs. 
 Versatile Platform Baseboard The Versatile™ family is a highly modular, feature rich range of development boards. Using Versatile, developers can build a software development system with their chosen ARM core.
 Keil M3 eval board Keil evaluation boards and starter kits help you evaluate the Cortex-M, ARM7 and ARM9 MCU architectures and get started with the Keil development tools.
mbed The mbed Microcontrollers are a series of microcontrollers development boards designed for fast, flexible and low-risk and professional rapid prototyping.


 

  Tux and Android

Distributions of ARM Embedded Linux (AEL) and instructions for porting Android™ are available for the Versatile™ and Versatile Express product families. Please refer to our Linux Support page for download links.

These OS ports allow you to quickly develop drivers for a new peripheral in an FPGA, or benchmark a new processor core with real software.


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