Efinix’s Trion T120 BGA324 development kit has multiple high-speed MIPI connectors that help prototype a camera subsystem with common camera modules. Customers can also build modules to easily connect to the Trion device’s multiple MIPI/CSI ports. The Trion T120F324 device used in this kit incorporates two fully enabled MIPI D-PHY/CSI-2 pre-engineered transmit/receive hard blocks and a DDR3/LPDDR3/DDR2 controller hard block for optimized performance and I/O speeds. The Trion T120F324 is ideal for applications that need to interface with the latest MIPI CSI-2 v1.3 camera sensors and have enough programmable logic to handle image processing functions, merging/overlay, or analysis in a single device (manipulate, interpret, or analyze). This board can quickly and easily prove architecture and debug system implementation. System-level I/O standards like Ethernet, HDMI, and Raspberry Pi provide a platform for system-on-a-chip implementation for cameras and any general-purpose soft processor, such as RISC-V implementations.

With the purchase of the Trion development kit customers receive a single-seat license for the Efinity® software with one year of software maintenance, including updates and upgrades. The Efinity software provides a complete tool flow from RTL design to bitstream generation, including synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, and a hardware debugger with a logic analyzer. It has a graphical user interface (GUI) that provides a visual way to set up projects, run the tool flow, and view results. The software also has a command-line flow and Tcl command console. The software-generated bitstream file is used to configure the Trion FPGA on the development board with a custom design. The purchase of the Trion development kit also includes access to the Efinix support center, which contains links to documentation, software, code examples, knowledgebase, and forum.