EK9 - ESM™ Starter Kit with EM9 / MPC8548 COM

J1 and J2 assembled

I/O connectors
• One USB 2.0 host interface
• RS232/422/485 COM10 interface
• Serial I/O interface (2 COM, GPIO)
• IDE connector
• TFT connector
• Touch panel connector
• VGA connector

PCI interface
• Three PCI slots
• 32-bit/33-MHz, 5V V(I/O) (no support of 66-MHz operation of EM9)
• Compliant with PCI Specification 2.2

Reset button and power LED

ESM™ Module EM9

CPU
• PowerPC® MPC8548 PowerQUICC™ III
• 1.33GHz
• e500 PowerPC® core with MMU and double-precision embedded scalar and vector floating-point APU

Memory
• 512MB DDR2 SDRAM installed
• 1GB soldered NAND Flash, FPGA-controlled
• 16MB boot Flash
• 128KB non-volatile FRAM
• 32MB SDRAM (graphics/NAND firmware)

Mass storage
• Fast IDE port for IDE devices (40-pin, via ESM™ carrier)
• 1GB soldered ATA NAND Flash, FPGA-controlled

Graphics: TFT/VGA and touch panel, connectors on carrier card

I/O at front panel
• Three 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet channels, on RJ45 connectors
• One RS232 UART (COM1), on RJ45 connector

I/O via carrier card
• Accessible on ESM™ carrier
• One UART interface (COM10), on D-Sub connector
• Two UART interfaces (COM11/COM12), via SA-Adapters™
• 7 GPIO lines, on 40-pin serial I/O connector

Functions in FPGA
• Main bus interface
• Interrupt controller, reset controller
• 16Z070_IDEDISK - IDE controller for NAND Flash
• 16Z043_SDRAM - Additional SDRAM controller (32MB DDR2)
• 16Z016_IDE - IDE controller (PIO mode 0)
• 16Z044_DISP - Display controller (800 x 600, 60Hz/75Hz, 6-bit RGB)
• 16Z031_SPI - SPI touch panel controller
• 16Z125_UART - UART controller (controls COM10..COM12)
• 16Z034_GPIO - GPIO controller (7 lines)
• The FPGA offers the possibility to add customized I/O functionality. See FPGA.

PCI interface
• 32-bit/33-MHz PCI interface at PCI-104 connector J1
• Compliant with PCI Specification 2.2
• Supports four external masters

Accessories

External PSU

VGA cable

RJ45 to D-Sub cable

Adapter for mounting of one PCI-104 module

Electrical Specifications

Supply voltage/power consumption:
• +24V (-35%/+50%), 500mA typ.

Mechanical Specifications

Dimensions:
• Carrier: conforming to Mini-ATX standard (PCB: 170mm x 150mm)
• ESM™: conforming to ESM™ specification (PCB: 149mm x 71mm), Type I-S, except height: approx. 1mm higher than standard

Weight:
• Carrier: 200g
• ESM™: 250g (incl. heat sink)

Environmental Specifications

Temperature range (operation):
• 0..+60°C
• Airflow: min. 1.5 m/s at heat sink

Temperature range (storage): -40..+85°C

Relative humidity (operation): max. 95% non-condensing

Relative humidity (storage): max. 95% non-condensing

Altitude: -300m to + 3,000m

Shock: 15g/11ms

Bump: 10g/16ms

Vibration (sinusoidal): 1g/10..150Hz

MTBF

Carrier: 540,000h @ 40°C (derived from MIL-HDBK-217F)

ESM™: 245,671h @ 40°C according to IEC/TR 62380 (RDF 2000)

Safety

PCB manufactured with a flammability rating of 94V-0 by UL recognized manufacturers

BIOS

MENMON™

Software Support

Linux

VxWorks®

QNX®

INTEGRITY® (Green Hills® Software) support available. Please contact Green Hills® for further information.

OS-9® (on request)

For more information on supported operating system versions and drivers see Downloads.

Flexible Configuration

Customized I/O functions can be added to the FPGA.

It depends on the board type, pin counts and number of logic elements which IP cores make sense and/or can be implemented. Please contact MEN for information on feasibility.

You can find more information on our web page "User I/O in FPGA"

FPGA Capabilities

FPGA Altera® Cyclone® II EP2C35
• 33,216 logic elements
• 483,840 total RAM bits

Connection
• Functions available via onboard connectors
• SA-Adapters™ can be used to realize the physical lines of some interfaces.

MEN offers an FPGA Development Package for implementation of customized IP cores.

MEN IP Cores

MEN offers a large number of standard IP cores.

Examples:
• IDE (e.g. PIO mode 0, UDMA mode 5)
• UARTs
• CAN bus
• Display control
• Fast Ethernet (10/100Base-T)
• ...

For IP cores developed by MEN please refer to our IP core overview.
• IP Core compare chart (PDF)

MEN also offers development of new (customized) IP cores.

Third-Party IP Cores

Third-party IP cores can also be used in combination with MEN IP cores.

Examples:
• www.altera.com
• www.opencores.org

FPGA Design Environment

Altera® offers free download of Quartus® II Web Edition
• Complete environment for FPGA and CPLD design
• Includes schematic- and text-based design entry
• Integrated VHDL and Verilog HDL synthesis and support for third-party synthesis software
• SOPC Builder system generation software
• Place-and-route, verification, and programming

Altera® Quartus® II Web Edition FPGA design tool

Article No.	Description	More
FPGA
16EK09-00	EK9 FPGA development package (MEN), including net lists of all IP cores being part of the EK9 standard factory configuration, top file, and Altera® Quartus® project (license not included in EK9 starter kit)	Download Details
Linux
This product is designed to work under Linux. See below for potentially available separate software packages from MEN.
10EM09-91	General Linux BSP for A17, EM9, EM9A, EK9, F50C, F50P and XM50	Download Details
VxWorks
This product is designed to work under VxWorks®. For details regarding supported/unsupported board functions please refer to the corresponding software data sheets.
10EM09-60	VxWorks® BSP (MEN) for A17, EK9, EM9, EM9A, F50C, F50P and XM50	Download Details
QNX
This product is designed to work under QNX®. For details regarding supported/unsupported board functions please refer to the corresponding software data sheets.
10EM09-40	QNX® BSP (MEN) for EM9 and EK9	Download Details
13Z025-40	QNX® 6.3 native driver (MEN) for 16Z025_UART and 16Z125_UART	Download Details
13Z025-41	QNX® 6.4 native driver (MEN) for 16Z025_UART and 16Z125_UART	Download Details
13Z025-42	QNX® 6.5 native driver (MEN) for 16Z025_UART and 16Z125_UART	Download Details
INTEGRITY
This product is designed to work under the INTEGRITY® RTOS from Green Hills® Software. An INTEGRITY® Board Support Package for this board is provided by Green Hills® Software. For more information and product support please contact Green Hills® Software (www.ghs.com).
Firmware/BIOS
MENMON™ is MEN's firmware/BIOS for PowerPC® platforms.
14EM09-00	MENMON™ (Firmware) (MEN) for EM9, EM9A and EK9 (object code)	Download Details

For operating systems not mentioned here contact MEN sales.