"Yellowstone" PPC 440GR Evaluation Kit

The AMCC 440GR evaluation kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources to evaluate the 440GR processor as well as to start their system development.

The Yellowstone 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 evaluation copies of advanced software development tools and operating systems 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-dGRth 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.

Yellowstone Board

The Yellowstone board, with an approximate 5" x 7" form factor, is a custom-designed platform, developed by Embedded Planet, for evaluating the 440GR processor:

• 667-MHz AMCC 440GR processor
• 256-Mbyte SDRAM
• 32-Mbyte Flash
• Two 10/100 Ethernet ports
• JTAG connector
• Trace connector
• PCI host connector
• Linux (2.6 kernel) in Flash
• Linux file system in Flash
• U-Boot boot firmware in Flash