sozius

Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)

A socius development platform is a small, portable electronic device that can easily be powered exter- nal form a USB port, USB charger, Power Over Ethernet or a battery pack. You can easily develop software and or digital elec- tronic for it, because it uses an FPGA with an embedded processors. For many application 90% of the overall design is fixed and only 10% makes the di erences. sozius delivers already a well-designed board should help you to focus on the di erentiation and that can be easily extended to your need. The main system with many interfaces and Linux is already preconfigured and ready for use. It should be easy to carry around for training and teaching. With expansion ports it is easily expandable to make it useful for many different kinds of application.

Features

You can select between many different kits that come already with additional modules, firmware and bit-stream. Select a socius kit which is basic system without any sub module, a fixed application like JTAG programmer or develop a sub module by our self You can select between many different kits that come already with additional modules, firmware and bit-stream.

Select a socius kit which is basic system without any sub module, a fixed application like JTAG programmer or develop a sub module by our self

Download the necessary images (include FSBL, elf for PS and bit file PL from our website Develop your own Firmware or use existing

Develop your own FPGA design in VHDL or Verilog

All interfaces on the Programmable System PS interfaces are fixed for all application

Linux is already running on it, you need only to add your driver for your peripheral

Run multiple services in it to interact with different clients like sozius.app, Matlab or Labview

Use a GUI to remote control a sozius from any device (Linux, MAC OS X, Windows, Android, iOS,

Automatically detects all connected sub modules andrevisions• Download the necessary images (include FSBL, elf for PS and bit file PL from our website Develop your own

Power Supply

From microUSB connector, use any USB power supply with 2A maximum
Power over Ethernet PoE with additional sub module, you need only on cable for data and power
Battery Supply with 4x1.2V=4.8VNiMH or 2x3.7V=7.4VLiPO
Hot Swap Controller for measuring the power consumption, current and inout voltage
Total Power consumption < 10W
Real Time Clock with Battery

Standard Interfaces

RJ45 with 1G for remote communication connected to PS
microUSB USB device/host for local communication to PS
microUSB Power Supply < 10W for the whole board, optional PoE , combined with debug UART for PS
microUSB JTAG for programming and debugging (Vivado Analyser and GNU Debugger)