Atmel Corp.'s SAM9G45-EK evaluation kit supports application development on the company's 400MHz ARM926-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) with DDR2 memory. The SAM9G45 offers 480Mbps EHCI-compliant high-speed USB with on-chip PHY, Ethernet and SDIO for high-speed connectivity, plus LCD and touch sensing for intelligent user-interfaces (iUIs), and programmable 1.8V or 3.3V I/O supply voltage implemented in a high-data bandwidth architecture with a dual EBI.
The evaluation board can be used to evaluate the performance benefits of the SAM9G45's dual external bus architecture, with two separate banks of 128MB second-generation Dual Data Rate (DDR2) memory, each of which is connected to an external bus interface. Onboard flash memory includes 2GB of NAND flash and 32Mb (2M x 16) flash memory, which can be used to store the firmware uploaded in the DDR2 memory at system boot or application data.
Onboard peripherals include a high-speed (HS) USB host/device port, a second HS USB host port, an Ethernet 10/100 interface, two high-speed SDCard/SDIO/MMC slots, a 24-bit color WQVGA LCD TFT display with resistive touchscreen and backlight, composite video output, camera interface and a backup battery.
The SAM9G45 board offers dual boot capability, supporting Linux and Microsoft Windows CE, with a pre-programmed demo showing the basic programming functionalities available under Linux and WinCE. Atmel provides full BSPs for both operating systems free of charge.
Atmel SAMG45 evaluation kit
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