Microchip Technology SAMA5D3 Ethernet Development System Board

Microchip Technology SAMA5D3 Ethernet Development System (EDS) Board (DM320114) is an MPU-based platform for evaluating Ethernet Switch and PHY products. Compatible Ethernet Switch and PHY Evaluation Boards connect to the SAMA5D3 EDS Board via either an RGMII or RMII connector. The Microchip Technology SAMA5D3 EDS Board is not intended for stand-alone use and has no Ethernet capabilities when no daughter board is connected.

The SAMA5D3 EDS Board comes with pre-installed Linux and Ethernet drivers. When mated to an Ethernet Switch Evaluation Board, the included software can run RSTP, DHCP, and PTP (1588). Users can access registers and statistics counters in the PHY or Switch, set up VLAN and other configurations in a Switch, and perform traffic testing to and from the MCU. The source code is available for download from the website for this board, and users may modify and append to it.

This SAMA5D3 EDS Board is built around a Cortex^®-A5-based processor with on-board SDRAM and Flash memory, two Ethernet MACs (one gigabit and one 100 Mbit), three USB ports, an iSD card slot, and a Serial UART interface. It is similar to the SAMA5D3 Xplained Evaluation Board (SAMA5D3-XPLD), but with the PHYs removed and replaced by the RMII and RGMII connectors. The two boards share the same development environment.

Features

Designed to connect to Ethernet Switch and PHY Daughter Cards
SAMA5D36 (324-ball BGA package) ARM^® Cortex-A5 Processor with v7-A Thumb^®-2 instruction set, 536MHz
2x 1Gb DDR2 (16M x 16 bits x 8 banks)
1x 2Gb NAND flash (256M x 8 bits)
ECC508 security encoder
Pre-installed Linux and Ethernet drivers