Foreword

In recent years, with the continuous advancement of China's New Infrastructure and Made in China 2025 initiatives, single ARM processors are increasingly struggling to meet the functional requirements of industrial applications. Industries such as energy and power, industrial control, and smart healthcare often require processor platforms with an ARM+FPGA architecture to implement specific functions, such as multi-channel/high-speed AD acquisition, multiple Ethernet ports, multiple serial ports, multi-channel/high-speed parallel DI/DO, and high-speed data parallel processing.

So, let's first look at the advantages of the ARM+FPGA architecture.

ARM: Rich interface resources, low power consumption, excels in multimedia display, logic control, etc.

FPGA: Excels in multi-channel or high-speed AD acquisition, interface expansion, high-speed signal transmission, high-speed data parallel processing, etc.

Therefore, the ARM+FPGA architecture offers comprehensive comparative advantages in terms of performance, cost, and power consumption. ARM and FPGA can each perform their respective duties, leveraging the unique strengths of their original architectures, and can also collaborate to tackle more complex problems.

For discrete ARM+FPGA applications where cost is not a primary concern and high communication speeds are required, PCIe communication interfaces are typically used. However, for cost-sensitive discrete ARM+FPGA applications, the PCIe communication interface drives up the cost of the FPGA chip.

For numerous industrial sectors such as energy and power, and industrial control, what is truly needed is a solution that is competitive in both performance and cost. This requires achieving high-speed communication between ARM and FPGA, while also ensuring optimal cost-effectiveness, and ideally, being based on domestic solutions.

Against this backdrop of demand, Xinmai Technology offers a solution based on domestic ARM and low-cost FPGA for high-speed communication.

RK3399 + Anlogic + Domestic AD.