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| 1 | +# Synopsys DesignWare ARC EM Starter Kit |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Overview |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +The DesignWare™ ARC™ EM Starter Kit(EMSK, emsk) is a low-cost, versatile |
| 6 | +solution enabling rapid software development and software debugging, and |
| 7 | +profiling for the ARC EM Family of processors. The EM Family includes the EM4, |
| 8 | +EM6, EM5D, EM7D, EM9D, and EM11D cores. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The EMSK consists of a hardware platform and a software package, including |
| 13 | +pre-installed FPGA images of different configurations of the ARC EM Processor |
| 14 | +with peripherals. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +The development board is based on a Xilinx Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA. It supports |
| 17 | +hardware extensions using six 2x6 connectors supporting a total of 48 user I/O |
| 18 | +pins (plus power and ground pins) that can be used to connect components such |
| 19 | +as sensors, actuators, memories, displays, buttons, switches, and |
| 20 | +communication devices. A Digilent Pmod™ compatible extension board containing |
| 21 | +a four-channel 12-bit A/D converter with an IIC interface and an AC power |
| 22 | +adapter are included in the package. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +## Board Resources |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +| Hardware | Description | |
| 27 | +| -- | -- | |
| 28 | +| SOC | EMSK | |
| 29 | +| Core | EM9D | |
| 30 | +| Arch | 32-bit ARC EM | |
| 31 | +| Frequency | 20/25 Mhz | |
| 32 | +| RAM | 128 MB DDR RAM + 256 KB Instruction CCM + 256 KB Data CCM | |
| 33 | +|Flash | 16 MB SPI Flash for FPGA configuration with 128 KB reserved for application | |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +## Usage |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +### FPGA Configuration |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Current, only em9d configuration is supported and tested for RT-Thread. However, |
| 40 | +it's can be easily applied to other configurations because all emsk configurations almost share the same memory map and periphreals. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +Please refer [EMSK configuration](https://embarc.org/embarc_osp/doc/build/html/board/emsk.html) for details. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +### Toolchain |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +The ARC GNU Toolchain offers all of the benefits of open source tools, including complete source code and a large install base. The ARC GNU IDE Installer consists of Eclipse IDE with [ARC GNU plugin for Eclipse](https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/arc_gnu_eclipse/releases), [ARC GNU prebuilt toolchain](https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/releases) and [OpenOCD for ARC](https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/openocd>) |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +Here, the ARC GNU toolchain is installed to `c:\arc\gnu`. If not, please change the path configuration in rtconfig.py. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +### Compile |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +please run the following cmds to compile |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + cd <rt-thread-root>/bsp/synopsys/emsk_em9d |
| 55 | + scons |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +## Debug |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +You need to install [Zadig](http://zadig.akeo.ie) to replace the default FTDI driver with WinUSB driver. See [How to Use OpenOCD on Windows](https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/arc_gnu_eclipse/wiki/How-to-Use-OpenOCD-on-Windows>) for more information. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +After compile, please use the following cmds to debug |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + scons --gdb |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +## Supported Drivers |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +| Driver | Supported | Comment | |
| 69 | +| ------ | ---- | :------: | |
| 70 | +| UART1 | yes | USB-UART for shell & log | |
| 71 | +| UART0 | yes | PMOD A UART for UART modules, e.g. esp8266 | |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +## Maintainer |
| 74 | +- [vonhust](https://github.com/vonhust) |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +## Notes |
| 77 | + |
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