The core of the Sam Flex board is the PowerPC 440EP, a System On Chip
(SoC) produced by AMCC under license from IBM. One of the main
features of the PowerPC AMCC 440EP is the presence, together with
the CPU, of a number of integrated peripherals. This allowed
to build a complete system with huge savings of both development
and debug time, with less components and space used on the PCB.
This also results in a significant cost reduction for the customer.
As a consequence the usual northbridge/southbridge combination is
not present on the Sam Flex board since parts of their functionalities are
already built into the CPU.
The 440EP chip has a size of 35x35 mm, with a PBGA packaging (456
balls). It is built with CMOS (0.13 um) technology, has a very
low power consumption (only 3 Watts at 533 MHz) and it does not
require any active cooling system.
Technical data:
FlexATX Form Factor (21.6 x 17 cm)
CPU SoC AMCC 440ep with:
integrated DDR 266 MHz memory controller
integrated PCI controller
integrated Flash memory devices controller
integrated USB 1.1 Host and 2.0 Device controller
2 integrated Ethernet 10/100 ports
up to 4 serial ports
2 I2C interfaces
SPI interface
64 pin for I/O General Purpose
2x DDR DIMM 100 slots, max 1 GB RAM
USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI NEC PCI controller (2 external ports, 2 internal ports)
Audio Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 Codec
Silicon Image 4 Serial ATA ports
Pericom 8150B PCI Bridge
FPGA Lattice XP with 80 pin I/O expansion connector
1 PCI slot - 32 bits, 66 MHz
2 PCI slots - 32 bits, 33 MHz
mini PCI Slot - 32 bits, 33 MHz (optional)
RTC with backup battery
UBoot 1.3.1
The following Operating Systems are available or under
development:
Mister Wong
Digg
LinkArena
