SIF User manual

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Overview

The SIF-TMD card can provide serail communication function (USB to UART) to the motherboard, users can connect this daughter card to FPGA motherboard which equipped Terasic TMD connector or GPIO connector (use jump wire) to get the UART protocal feature.User only need to connect the Host to the SIF-TMD card through the USB cable to establish the serail data transmision between the FPGA and the Host. In addition, the SIF-TMD also provides I2C interface EEPROM and SPI interface FLASH, allowing users to use FPGA to access these memories to realize the features of data access.


SIF-TMD 45 02.jpg

Board Featue :

  • USB to UART function
    • Emulate standard serial interface, used to upgrade the former peripheral device, or add excess serial interface through USB
    • Supports baud rate varies from 50bps to 2Mbps.
  • One I2C interface 32Kb EEPROM
  • One SPI Interface 8Mb Flash

The following two pictures show the board components of SIF-TMD:

  • Top View

SIF-TMD Top Layout.jpg

  • Botton View

SIF-TMD Bot Layout.jpg

The following picture shows the block diagram of the SIF-TMD card.

SIF-blockdiagram 01.jpg

Components

This chapter will introduce the hardware components of the SIF-TMD card.

USB to UART Interface

The UART serial interface is designed to perform communication between the board and the PC. he physical interface is done using UART-USB on-board bridge from a CH340E chip and connects to the host using a Mini-USB connector. The CH340E on the SIF-TMD card wouldn’t support HW flow control signals and it provides TXD and RXD signals to the TMD connector on the SIF-TMD card. Also the chip supports communication baud rate varies from 50bps to 2Mbps. For detailed information and host driver for the CH340E chip, please refer to the datasheet, which is available on the manufacturer’s website.

Sif tmd uart circuit.png

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