Recently introduced the new reference design projects for the MCXL SoM (Cyclone 10 LP) provides a good benefit for all customers that intend to start with the SoM. The designs implement the VexRiscv (open source RISC-V softcore) running FreeRTOS, as well as Intel Triple Speed Ethernet MAC and the SLL MBMC IP. They can be used to evaluate the MCXL SoM or as starting point for development.

Three Quartus projects are available, one for the MCXL-S (SDRAM variant) and two for the MCXL-H (HyperBus variant). All implement a RISC-V core with FreeRTOS, a UART core and GPIO routed to the PMod connectors and Gigabit Ethernet using the Intel TSE MAC. The mcxl_h_ethernet and mcxl_s_ethernet projects use only 128 KiB on-chip memory to provide RAM for the RISC-V core. The mcxl_h_ethernet_hyperbus project also implements the SLL Hyperbus IP Core available with a time-limited 30 minutes free trial license providing additional 32 MiB of HyperRAM and 128 MiB of HyperFlash. More information is available on the MCXL product page.