NEC Electronics Europe introduced a starter kit for the System-on-Chip Lite+ configurable microcontroller device. The Start it! development board facilitates the first encounter with the System-On-Chip Lite+ device. The on-board System-on-Chip Lite+ prototype chip includes an ARM7TDMI-based embedded microcontroller system. The functionality of this system can be expanded by means of sections of user defined logic (UDL) implemented within a mid-range FPGA. Flash, SDRAM and SRAM (optional) memory.

Connectors on the Start It! board support hook-up to a standard PC via Ethernet and to USB interfaces in the FPGA. It comes fully equipped with a µClinux operating system, including a small web server application.

Features:

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System-on-Chip Lite+ prototype chip

ARM7TDMI-S + SDRAM controller + 10/100M Ethernet MAC

Interrupt controller, Timer, Watchdog, UART

FPGA for 100K raw ASIC gates

Flash-ROM (4 Mbytes)

SDRAM (32 Mbytes)

Serial port conforms to the RS232-C communication standard

JTAG port for connection of standard ARM® debugging tools

Parallel port for program/memory download and boundary scan of the FPGA

10/100 M Ethernet PHY

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