Device Overview

Top View

Cynthion Top View
  • A-E - Five status LEDs managed by the debug microcontroller.

    • A - Power Indicator.

    • B - FPGA is online.

    • C - FPGA has requested control of the CONTROL port.

    • D - FPGA has control of the CONTROL port.

    • E - Reserved for future use.

  • 0-5 - Six user LEDs managed by the FPGA.

Left View

Cynthion Left View
  • PROGRAM - Press this button to return control of the CONTROL port to the debug microcontroller and hold the FPGA in an unconfigured state.

    • Recovery mode: Press this button during power-on to invoke the Saturn-V bootloader on the CONTROL port.

  • CONTROL - Primary USB connector used by the host computer to control Cynthion.

  • USER - A user-assignable button that can be used in your own designs.

  • AUX - An auxiliary USB connection that can be used in your own designs.

Right View

Cynthion Right View
  • TARGET C - USB Type-C connector for Packetry traffic capture and Facedancer device emulation.

  • TARGET A - USB Type-A connector shared with the TARGET C connector.

  • RESET - Press this button to reset Cynthion’s debug microcontroller and reconfigure the FPGA from flash.

Front View

Cynthion Front View
  • A & B - Two Digilent Pmod™ Compatible I/O connectors for a total of 16 high-speed FPGA user IOs.

    • B can also be configured to act as a serial port and JTAG connector for debugging SoC designs:

      • 1 - SERIAL RX

      • 2 - SERIAL TX

      • 7 - JTAG TMS

      • 8 - JTAG TDI

      • 9 - JTAG TDO

      • 10 - JTAG TCK

Bottom View

Cynthion Bottom View