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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:
