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"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





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