"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

PPC440 core

SDRAM

DMA

UARTs

PCI

I2C

Flash