{"id":24,"date":"2014-12-30T02:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-12-30T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:16:25","slug":"perseus-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Perseus Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started working on my first Prototype of Perseus (V0.81) board. A development platform I am building which combines the power of Coldfire MCU along with the capabilities of a Spartan6 FPGA.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my first photos during the board assembly and test.<\/p>\n<p>First assembled the switching power supplies (input 9V-18V ac\/dc).<\/p>\n<p>Then added the microcontroller (Coldfire MCF52258).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_MCU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_MCU-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Perseus_MCU\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_MCU-300x293.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_MCU.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then added the FTDI USB to serial converter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_USB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_USB-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Perseus_USB\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_USB-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_USB.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MCU was tested along with a port of FunkOS R3 RTOS.<\/p>\n<p>Assembling all the parts the board was concluded with the FPGA and its SDRAM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_FPGA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_FPGA-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Perseus_FPGA\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_FPGA-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_FPGA.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The live board running the FunkOS flashed the LEDs passing the basic burn in test of the components (no critical errors).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_Live.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_Live-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Perseus_Live\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_Live-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Perseus_Live.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hardware was complete&#8230; almost; he he no FPGA code yet.<\/p>\n<p>And more important: much firmware to write for controlling all these peripherals (USB, ethernet, SD card etc).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started working on my first Prototype of Perseus (V0.81) board. A development platform I am building which combines the power of Coldfire MCU along with the capabilities of a Spartan6 FPGA. Here are my first photos during the board assembly and test. First assembled the switching power supplies (input 9V-18V ac\/dc). Then added the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perseus Prototype<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ilialex.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}