"Acadia" PowerPC 405EZ Evaluation Kit

Product Overview

The AMCC 405EZ evaluation kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources to evaluate the 405EZ processor as well as to start system development.

The Acadia evaluation board, incorporating the industry-standard Linux operating system and U-Boot firmware, is an optimized, low-cost platform designed specifically for evaluation purposes.

Schematics and layout files for the board are provided so that customers can start their designs from a proven baseline. Likewise, the Linux code and U-Boot firmware source are available from Denx Software Engineering. The kit includes advanced software development tools from multiple suppliers, to assist customers in selecting the most appropriate development and run-time environments.

Advanced diagnostics, which can be licensed by customers, perform in-depth testing of the processor and evaluation board.

Industrystandard benchmarks are supplied to support customers´ performance analysis of the processor, while sample applications provide a starting point for software development, and utilities assist in system configuration.

Acadia Board

The Acadia board, with an approximately 5" x 7" form factor, is a custom designed platform developed by Embedded Planet for evaluating the 405EZ processor:

• 416MHz AMCC 405EZ processor
• 64 MByte PSRAM
• 64 MByte NOR Flash
• 8 MByte NAND Flash
• One 10/100 Ethernet port
• Two USB 1.1 host ports
• One USB 1.1 device port
• Two CAN 2.0 ports
• One ADC connector
• One DAC connector
• Two serial ports
• JTAG connector
• Trace connector
• EBC bus connector
• Header for timer and PWM controls
• LCD display
• Linus (2.6 kernel) in Flash
• Linux file system in Flash
• U-Boot boot firmware in Flash

Sample Applications and Utilities

The Resource CD provides a wide range of sample applications as a starting point for software development, and utilities to assist in system configuration:

• Web server on evaluation board
• Telnet server on evaluation board
• FTP server on evaluation board
• Webslots game on evaluation board
• Processor / board configuration report
• Ethernet utility to configure IP address, configure MAC address and modify EMAC registers
• Example flash file system for persistent storage
• Script-based Linux root file system build environment

Benchmarks

The Resource CD includes a wide range of industry-standard benchmarks for use in processor performance analysis:

• DBench
• HINT
• MPEG-4 encode and decode
• STREAM
• TTCP

Diagnostics

Also included in flash on the evaluation board is a comprehensive suite of advanced processor and board diagnostics supplied by Kozio, Inc., and available for license to customers. Kozio´s kDiagnosticsTM perform a wide range of tests, including:

• PPC405 core
• DMA
• UARTs
• USB
• I2C
• Flash
• EEPROM