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Synopsys, Inc.
May 2017
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Hardware Functional Description
This chapter provides information about the hardware used in the AXC003 CPU Card.
6.1 Board Overview
The AXC003 CPU Card hardware is a daughter card for the ARC SDP Mainboard. It includes
an FPGA with an SPI ROM image file that contains two FPGA images with ARC CPUs:
Single core ARC HS36
Dual-core ARC HS38x2
In addition to the ARC processors, the AXC003 CPU Card includes a 2 GByte DDR3 SDRAM,
256 KByte local SRAM physically implemented inside the FPGA, and internal ROM physically
implemented as additional 32 KByte local SRAM inside the FPGA. The internal ROM area
contains bootloader code and is not intended for application software.
Bare-metal applications are natively supported. OS and driver porting for operating systems
are facilitated as well.
The AXS103 Software Development Platform is HAPS compliant and enables the use of high-
frequency ARC CPU cores as a daughter card for HAPS, allowing full SoC prototyping.
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