MIPS® SEAD™-3

The MIPS® SEAD™ -3 System engineering and development board is designed to provide a low-cost means to support various CPU cores allowing the user to evaluate the cores in an FPGA environment. The SEAD™-3 has multiple use cases including CPU core performance benchmarking, pre-silicon system software development, and SOC modeling via programming the associated Xilinx FPGAs.

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SEAD™-3 also provides a user the ability to utilize the on board Xilinx FPGA for their own custom programming when a MIPS® FM-3 module is added to house the CPU core. When the FM-3 is added the user can then additionally stack on a MIPS® FPGA 5b board that can house up to two additional Xilinx XC5VLX330s providing extra design capacity.

SEAD™-3 is available in three hardware versions with different FPGA densities: XC5VLX50, LX110 & LX155. In the largest two density FPGA instances, the user can also add an extra USB port as well as an external memory controller for one SODIMM DDR II 200 pin DIMM socket.

SEAD™-3 is configurable from any PC running Windows or Linux via a USB cable. This development board has test connectors available to support MIPS® test interfaces including: EJTAG, iFlow & PDtrace™. Please contact your local MIPS® sales office for more detailed information as required.