Quokka IoT FPGA Board is Programmable with C# Language (Crowdfunding)

Quokka IoT (preliminary) hardware specifications:

  • FPGA – Intel Altera Cyclone IV, 6K logic elements, EP4CE6E22C8
  • Clock – 50MHz
  • Connectivity – WiFi via WiPy module
  • Expansion
    • 40x GPIO (3 banks by 8 pins, with direction and voltage (3.3V or 5V) configuration, 16 raw IO pins 3.3V)
    • 2x Dual Channel 10 bit ADC (3.3V)
    • 2x Dual Channel 10 bit DAC (3.3V)
    • H-Bridge for DC motors with support for external power
  • Power Supply – 5-24V DC input

The specifications are preliminary, because the FPGA may be replaced by one with more logic cells (e.g. 20K) depending on the popularity of the project. Drivers are available for each hardware component on the board including ADC and DAC drivers, UART, JSON serializer\deserializer and much more.

As mentioned in the introduction, C# programming is possible with QDT, and it’s not limited to Quokka IoT board, so you should be able to use it with other FPGA boards, although a license may be required as we’ll see below.

You can watch a short demo of the board in action while attached to a robotic chassis.

The project has launched on Kickstarter with a $30.000 AUD funding goal (~$23,600 US). Rewards start at 150 AUD ($118 US) for Quokka IoT board only, but if you want to use the board with QDT, you’d need to add 50 AUD extra for a total of 200 AUD (~$158 US). Shipping adds 25 AUD ($19.7 US), and delivery is scheduled for May 2018.

Thanks to TLS for the tip

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Nobody of Import
Nobody of Import
6 years ago

Heh. Nice that they let you do C#. Problem is that this may/may not have issues on resource (Cells, DSP slices, etc.) use because most (though not all) HLS items are typically crippled versions of the language or the language doesn’t map efficiently to FPGAs. If you find VHDL or Verilog is not your speed… Perhaps Haskell (www.clash-lang.org) or Scala (https://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc/) is more your speed. These are higher-level HDLs that’re better, more expressive than Verilog or VHDL, and in the case of CLaSH, you can use an extensive subset of Haskell and it will efficiently express it as Verilog or… Read more »

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