Date: 06/10/2009

Atmel's SAM9G45 evaluation kit supports 400MHz ARM9-based Embedded MPU

Atmel has announced the SAM9G45 evaluation kit that supports application development of 400 MHz ARM926-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) with DDR2 memory and offers 480 Mbps EHCI-compliant high-speed USB with on-chip PHY, Ethernet and SDIO for high-speed connectivity, LCD and touch sensing for intelligent user-interfaces (iUIs), and programmable I/O voltages are 1.8 or 3.3 V implemented in a high-data bandwidth architecture with a dual EBI.

The evaluation board evaluates the performance of SAM9G45's dual external bus architecture, with two separate banks of 128 MBytes Dual Data Rate (DDR2) memory, each of which is connected to an external bus interface. Onboard flash memory includes 2 GB of NAND flash and 32 Mb (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 USB host/device port, a second high-speed 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 WindowsCE, 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.

Price: At USD $750 for single unit quantities
Availability: The SAM9G45 evaluation kit is available now

For more details visit www.atmel.com