Freescale Development Tools
CodeWarrior
™
MPC8555E QUICCstart
Evaluation System
Overview
The Freescale QUICCstart MPC8555
Evaluation System is a powerful, low-cost
platform that allows a developer to rapidly
design and execute a project with the
Freescale MPC8555E PowerQUICC III
processor, reducing time-to-market and
increasing reliability. This evaluation system
exercises the major features of the
MPC8555E / MPC8541E through a
configurable, full featured PrPMC board
which can operate in standalone mode or be
deployed as a PrPMC board on a
CompactPCI carrier board.
The QUICCstart MPC8555 Evaluation
System comes complete with the PrPMC
board, power supply, CodeWarrior USB TAP
run control device, cables, and evaluation
copies of CodeWarrior™ tools for bare board
bring-up and debug as well as Linux kernel
and application debug. A Linux board support
package is also supplied on CD and flashed
to the board. This evaluation system has been
packaged so that you can be productive
within 30 minutes of unpacking the kit.
Freescale’s MPC8555E PowerQUICC III
Family is targeted at the networking,
communications, printing/imaging and
general-purpose embedded markets. These
offerings provide a high level of performance
and integration including an integrated e500
PowerPC core running at 833MHz, 256 KB
L2 cache, a separate RISC based
Communications Processor Module (CPM)
supporting a wide range of peripherals, a
DDR SDRAM memory controller, two Gigabit
Ethernet controllers, a four channel DMA
controller, a 64-bit PCI controller that can
serve as two 32-bit PCI ports, and an
integrated security engine supporting DES,
3DES, MD-5, SHA-1, AES and ARC-4, as
well as offering a public key accelerator and
on-chip random number generator.
CodeWarrior MPC8555E QUICCstart Evaluation System
Features:
> Freescale Power QUICC III PowerPC
MPC8555E processor at 833MHz
> Evaluation copies of CodeWarrior
Development Studio Communications
Processors Edition and Linux Platform
Edition for PowerPC
> Free PDF schematic
> Experienced Freescale support
> Linux board support package
> Can operate as PrPMC or stand alone
module
> PrPMC monarch or non-monarch
> DDR SDRAM 64MB
> Flash 16MB
Benefits:
CodeWarrior Tools Integration:
a trial copy of
Freescale’s own CodeWarrior development
tools provides a single development
environment that includes CodeWarrior
compilers, high-performance hardware debug
capability via the included USB TAP with
support for conditional breakpoints, data
watchpoints and expression evaluation, a
comprehensive Project Manager and Build
System with an easy-to-use GUI and graphical
flash memory programming capability.
Free Schematics:
a PDF of this board’s
schematics are available. These schematics
can give an engineer a solid starting point
when considering the use of this processor
in their own boards.
Experienced Support:
as a supplier of
evaluation systems, reference designs and
hardware-assisted debugging tools for an
array of microprocessors, Freescale has the
experience necessary to provide
knowledgeable, responsive application and
technical support for development projects.
Learn More:
For more information about Freescale products, please visit
www.freescale.com/codewarrior
Linux Board Support Package:
Freescale
provides the source code for a board
support package available for use with our
Linux Platform Edition product. Developers
can fully utilize and modify the source code
for current and future projects.
Accelerated Early Development:
firmware,
hardware and production test engineers
can each take advantage of Freescale
evaluation systems and reference designs.
Firmware and hardware engineers can
adapt Freescale evaluation systems to their
own, enabling them to reduce development
time. Production test engineers can use the
board and included CodeWarrior Tools and
USB TAP to design and prototype complex
and efficient production algorithms before
the custom hardware is prototyped.
Ordering Info:
Part # CWH-PPC-8555N-VX
> Two 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet
> RS-232 serial monitor port
> Debug COP/JTAG
> Serial EEPROM I2C
> Serial temperature I2C
> Serial RTC I2C
> Dipswitch 4-position slide switch
> BCSR Control and Status Registers
> 5.0 VDC single power supply source
> Operating Range: 0º C to 70º C
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