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"Taishan" PowerPC 440GX Evaluation Kit
Enables comprehensive evaluation of the AMCC 440GX processor, while minimizing customers´ hardware and software development time. The AMCC 440GX evaluation kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources to evaluate the 440GX processor as well as to start system development. The Taishan 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 to accelerate customers´ software development. 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. Industry standard 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.
Taishan Board
The Taishan board, with an approximately 7" x 7" form factor, is a custom designed platform developed by UDTech for evaluating the 440GX processor:
800MHz AMCC 440GX processor
256 MByte DDR SDRAM
64 MByte NOR Flash
Two 10/100/1G Ethernet ports
Two PCI host connectors (33/66 MHz)
Two serial ports
JTAG connector
Trace connector
Linux (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
Dhrystone
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 Kdiagnostics perform a wide range of tests,including
