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News Item from June-2010
Technologic Systems announces the release of a new addition
to the 396MHz Series of TS-Macrocontrollers, the TS-4200, for the second
quarter of 2010. The TS-4200 is, at the time of release, our lowest powered
single board computer at 375mW (75mA @ 5V) when connected to a TS-8200 and RS-232 port.
The following features help meet this low power consumption:
- Efficient switching regulators
- Low power Atmel CPU that can disable clocks to any of its peripherals
- Low power Actel FPGA clocked by the CPU only when needed
- Low power 1.8V mobile RAM
- Ethernet and SD card that can be disabled to save power.
THE TS-4200 TS-MACROCONTROLLER
The TS-4200 is a low profile credit card sized Macrocontroller module
and features a 396 MHz Atmel ARM9 and a 3K tile low power Actel A3P125
FPGA. With 64MB to 128MB RAM and a bootable 256MB on-board flash drive
with our new XNAND technology, the TS-4200 is a powerful and extremely
reliable embedded solution. External devices can connect to the TS-4200
via Ethernet, USB host, USB device, I2C, SPI, UARTs, or GPIO. The two 100
pin downward-facing general-purpose headers makes it easy to interface the
TS-4200 with the TS-8200 base board or a base board of your own design.
Hardware features include:
- Ethernet MAC and PHY
- USB host and device.
- Up to 6 UARTs (1 Auto-485 capable)
- microSD card (or external full size SD)
- 256MB XNAND storage
- SPI
- I2C
- I2S
- 4 ADC inputs
- RTC*
- 8KB NVRAM*
- Up to 78 DIO/GPIO**
- Watchdog timer
- Random number generator
NOTE:
* External coin cell battery required.
** Depends on features used (I2C, I2S, SPI, UARTs, etc).
If all features are used, 39 GPIO are still available. Note: DIO pins marked
with PC4-10 and PC13-14 on schematic are 1.8V logic level whereas all others
are 3.3V logic level.
*** 1/16 of degree Celsius resolution (and 1 degree absolute
accuracy).
LINUX 2.6.24, DEBIAN, AND ECLIPSE IDE SUPPORT
The TS-4200 TS-Macrocontroller is configured to load Debian "Lenny" Linux
from the onboard XNAND Drive or MicroSD Card during boot up time. The onboard
XNAND Drive uses a minimal Debian "Lenny" Linux distribution that has been
compacted to fit in the 256MB space and leave about 70MB free for the user and
includes utilities such as apt-get for installing and removing programs. The
MicroSD card uses a full featured Debian "Lenny" Linux distribution which
includes a complete GNU C/C++ embedded development environment. In addition,
Apache Web Server, FTP, SSH, Telnet and Samba network services are available
with C/PHP/Perl for embedded CGI development. In addition, the Eclipse
IDE for Windows configured for out-of-the-box embedded development with the
TS-4200 computer is provided with the 2GB microSD Card.
XNAND TECHNOLOGY
Technologic Systems XNAND technology is an ultra reliable and
industrial grade user-space device driver that uses Reed-Solomon codes,
extra checksums, and a RAID based technique to allow any Linux filesystem
to be used with confidence on SLC NAND flash. Our TS-BOOTROM can also
boot from XNAND for an ultra-reliable bootup. Please refer to the
XNAND whitepaper for more
information.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
The TS-4200 is $189 for qty 1, $154 for qty 10, and $139 for qty 100 with
an optional $15 plastic enclosure. Quantity discounts are available. For
further information regarding product specifications, visit Technologic
Systems website at www.embeddedARM.com or call at 480-837-5200.
ABOUT TECHNOLOGIC SYSTEMS
Technologic Systems is an Embedded Systems company with headquarters
in Fountain Hills, Arizona. We have been in business for over 25 years.
Our product base consists of a wide variety of off-the-shelf PC/104 single
board computers and peripherals, and offer custom configurations and design
services. In addition, we specialize in the ARM architecture, FPGA IP-core
design and open-source software support based on Linux, providing advanced
custom solutions using hardware-software co-design strategies.
TECHNOLOGIC SYSTEMS INC.
16525 East Laser Drive
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
TEL 1.480.837.5200
FAX 1.480.837.5300
www.embeddedARM.com
support@embeddedARM.com
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