The system is shipped with toolchains for ETRAX and MSP processors, FPGA design and synthesis tools are available from Xilinx free of charge.

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Features

• ETRAX 100LX / MCM4+16 CPU
• 32 MB SDRAM, 8 - 64 MB Flash
• FPGA Spartan 3-XC3S400 - 1500, connected directly on CPU bus
• support for partial reconfiguration without readback
• dedicated independent SDRAM for FPGA - 16MB
• power management, watchdog, temperature and voltage sensors implemented in MSP430 microcontroller
• 10/100Mb Ethernet port
• 2 x USB 1.1 port
• 1 x RS232 port for ETRAX and MSP (may be extended upto 4 ports)
• JTAG interface for FPGA (Parallel Cable IV connector) and MSP
• character LCD display supported including programmable backlight and contrast control
• TFT LCD supported via linear framebuffer core, VGA support planned
• 14 LVDS pairs or 28 LVTTL IOs
• 90 separate input/output signals from FPGA, 5V tolerant
• 94 general IO from ETRAX, MSP and FPGA
• single power suplly voltage: 5V @ 600mA (depends on configuration and USB device consumption)
• port of Allegro graphics library
• boot over ethernet
• FPGA initialization and communication tools
• OS Linux, ftp, web, telnet
• all source code licensed under GPL or OHGPL
• royalty free application development software

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Documentation

• PC layout 314.45 Kb
• Schematics 501.11 Kb
• Software development pages
  

Applications

• industrial control and data acquisition
• stand-alone monitoring and DAQ systems, data may be archived on flash, USB mass storage device or online via GPRS or other communication media
• development and testing of FPGA algorithms for research and education

example of production quality industrial control system based on EUS100LX

Reference designs

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