"Katmai" PowerPC 440SPe Evaluation Kit

Enables comprehensive evaluation of the AMCC 440SPe processor, while accelerating customers´ hardware and software development time.
The AMCC 440SPe evaluation kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources to evaluate the 440SPe processor as well as to start system development.
The Katmai 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 tools for code development and debug. 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.

Katmai Board

The Katmai board, with an approximately 10” x 12” ATX form factor, is a custom-designed platform developed by Nimbus Data Systems for evaluating the 440SPe processor:

• 667 MHz AMCC 440SPe processor
• 512 MByte DDR-2 667 SDRAM in 1/2 slots
• 512 MByte Compact, 16 MByte Boot Flash
• 64 Kbit serial EEPROM
• One 10/100/1G Ethernet port
• One PCI-X slot
• Three PCIe x8 slots (connected to 2 x4 and 1 x8 PCIe ports)
• Two serial ports
• JTAG connector
• Trace connector
• Linux (2.6 kernel) in Compact Flash
• Linux file system in Compact Flash
• U-Boot firmware in Boot Flash

Sample Applications and Utilities

The Resource CD provides a range of sample applications as a starting point for software development, as well as utilities to assist in system configuration:

• Web server on evaluation board
• Telnet server on evaluation board
• FTP server and TFTP client 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
• Iometer for RAID benchmarking

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 K-diagnostics perform a wide range of tests, including:

• 440SPe core
• SDRAM
• DMA
• UARTs
• PCI
• I2C
• Flash
• EEPROM