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Developing SoC and FPGA-based applications for MicroTCA AMC involves significant hardware costs. It requires a complete hardware ecosystem with a Chassis, an MCH, and one or several AMCs, presenting a steep learning curve for new developers.
This contribution presents the integration of two different cost-effective boards into DESY's FPGA Firmware Framework (FWK). The goal is to provide a low-cost, and accessible platform that facilitates rapid application development and serves as an effective gateway to the framework.
The first integrated board is the AMD/Xilinx Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, a powerful platform based on the Zynq UltraScale+ SoC with a rich variety of I/O elements.
The second board is the TEWS Technologies TMPE627, a compact mini-PCIe card hosted on a desktop computer. Based on an AMD/Xilinx Artix 7, it provides 4-channel AD/DA converters and 14 digital I/O lines.
The contribution focuses on the development cycle used and the implementation of different solutions.
This work was supported by Grant PID2022-137680OB-C33 funded by
MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Eu-
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