LARK BOARD (EMBEST)

The Lark Board is an evaluation board designed by Embest based on an Altera ARM (Cortex-A9 dual core) and FPGA processor. The Cyclone V SX family SoC 5CSXFC6D6F31 integrates not only the traditional FPGA fabric, but also an ARM Cortex-A9 based HPS (operating at 800MHz) and a high speed transceiver (3Gbps Serdes) hard subsystem. Lark Board uses a switching power supply controller chip (integrated with inductor) that comes from Altera's Enpirion family to provide a stable and efficient output for each BANK of FPGA. Meanwhile, it has two onboard DIP switches used to enable various voltage levels required by the different interfaces on the board with the purpose to facilitate power consumption evaluation conducted by users.