Pack Content

The Alif Semiconductor Ensemble Device Family Pack contains Device and Board support for:

• Alif Semiconductor Ensemble E1C/E1/E3/E5/E7/E8 AI/ML microcontroller series with up two Arm Cortex-M55 and two Arm Ethos-U55 microNPUs.
• Alif Semiconductor Ensemble E7 DevKit - Gen 2 single board computer with access to all signals and pins for power/performance profiling.
• Alif Semiconductor Ensemble E7 AI/ML AppKit - Gen 2 single board computer with camera/image, motion, sound sensors and display.

This Pack contains:

• Support for Arm Compiler 6 (AC6) and GCC.
• Flash algorithms for the on-chip Flash memory.
• Debug configuration information and SVD files for peripheral awareness.
• SoC Peripheral interfaces and CMSIS-Driver for CAN, GPIO, I2C, SAI, SPI, USART.
• Template and example projects for uVision IDE and CMSIS-Toolbox (VS Code).

Device Support (DFP)

The device is configured using the Alif Semiconductor Conductor Tool. The secure enclave of the device is configured using the Alif Secure Toolkit (SETOOLS) that generates and downloads an Application Table of Content (ATOC) for the device.

NOTE
Before downloading examples it is required to program the ATOC to the device. Usage below contains more information.

Related packs

The following packs are required for this DFP:

    - pack: ARM::CMSIS@^6.2.0               # Arm CMSIS pack 6.2.0 or higher
    - pack: ARM::CMSIS-Compiler@2.1.0       # Arm Compiler pack 2.1.0 or higher (for STDIN/OUT)

E7 DevKit (BSP)

The E7 DevKit Board Support (BSP) part provides the following examples and layers:

The Board Layers enable device-agnostic Reference Applications and implement these API interfaces:

E7 AppKit (BSP)

The E7 AppKit BSP part provides the following:

The Board Layers enable device-agnostic Reference Applications and implement these API interfaces:

Usage

The host PC runs the SETOOLS, IDE and debugger connects to Alif Semiconductor development boards via debug probes (J-Link, CMSIS DAP, ULINKpro). Optional, for the SETOOLS an onboard UART-to-USB interface adapter (PRG_USB) is available.

NOTE
SETOOLS are mandatory for generating and flashing processor the Application Table of Content (ATOC). The first time you load an image or change the processor setup, a ATOC image containing debug stubs must be generated and flashed onto the device prior to starting a debug session (otherwise, the debug connection will fail). After this is done once, the application can be built, flashed, and debugged without reprogramming the ATOC.

Download SETOOLS from Alif Semiconductor Software & Tools page (requires registration).

The CMSIS-Toolbox examples include for VS Code a tasks.json file that generates and programs the ATOC using the SETOOLS using the following tasks:

To run these tasks:

1. Set the variable alif.setools.root in the global settings.json. Use Ctrl+, to open the settings dialog, then switch to text mode and enter (this is required only once):

   json { "alif.setools.root": "C:\\Alif\\SETOOLS", // SETOOLS installation path on your PC :

2. Use from the VS Code menu Terminal - Run Task to execute the SETOOLS configuration task. For Windows ensure that the Terminal default is Git Bash or PowerShell.

Example output:

 *  Executing task: cp './.alif/M55_HE_mram_cfg.json' 'C:\Alif/build/config/M55_HE_mram_cfg.json'; cp './.alif/M55_HP_mram_cfg.json' 'C:\Alif/build/config/M55_HP_mram_cfg.json'; cp './.alif/M55_HP_mram_stub.bin' 'C:\Alif/build/images/M55_HP_mram_stub.bin'; cp './.alif/M55_HE_mram_stub.bin' 'C:\Alif/build/images/M55_HE_mram_stub.bin'; cd 'C:\Alif'; ./app-gen-toc -f 'build/config/M55_HE_mram_cfg.json'; ./app-write-mram -p -d; 

Generating APP Package with:
Device Part# E7 (AE722F80F55D5LS) - 5.5 MRAM / 13.5 SRAM - Rev: B2
- System MRAM Base Address: 0x80580000
- APP MRAM Base Address: 0x80000000
- APP MRAM Size: 5767168
- Configuration file: build/config/M55_HE_mram_cfg.json
- Output file: build/AppTocPackage.bin

Generating Device Configuration for: app-device-config.json
Calculating APP area...
Creating Content Certificates...
2025-07-02 16:26:43,856 - Content Certificate Generation Utility started (Logging to ../build/logs/SBContent.log)
  :
Creating APP TOC Package...
Creating Signature...
Binary File:  ../build/images/M55_HE_mram_stub.bin
2025-07-02 16:26:44,813 - Content Certificate Generation Utility started (Logging to ../build/logs/SBContent.log)
Content Certificate File:  build/images/M55_HE_mram_stub.bin.crt
Signature File:  build/images/M55_HE_mram_stub.bin.sign
Adding ATOC...
APP TOC Package size: 13552 bytes
Creating Signature...
Binary File:  ../build/AppTocPackage.bin
2025-07-02 16:26:45,057 - Content Certificate Generation Utility started (Logging to ../build/logs/SBContent.log)
Content Certificate File:  build/AppTocPackage.bin.crt
Signature File:  build/AppTocPackage.bin.sign
Done!
Writing MRAM with parameters:
Device Part# E7 (AE722F80F55D5LS) - 5.5 MRAM / 13.5 SRAM - Rev: B2
- Available MRAM: 5767168 bytes
[INFO] Burning: ../build/images/M55_HE_mram_stub.bin 0x80000000 ../build/AppTocPackage.bin 0x8057cb10
[INFO] baud rate  55000
[INFO] dynamic baud rate change  Enabled
COM ports detected = 2
-> COM3
-> COM6
Enter port name:COM6
[INFO] COM6 open Serial port success
Maintenance Mode = Enabled 
Authenticate Image:  False
Download Image
build\images\M55_HE_mram_stub.bin[####################]100%: 3040/3040 bytes
Done
       0.07 seconds

Authenticate Image:  False
Download Image
build\AppTocPackage.bin         [####################]100%: 13552/13552 bytes
Done
       0.32 seconds

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