Atmel AT91EB40 Evaluation Board

The Atmel AT91EB40 Evaluation Board platform, based on the Atmel AT91R40807 (ARM7TDMI) is supported by both eCos and RedBoot.

Supported devices

Device drivers are included for:

• Diagnostic (polled) serial I/O
• Interrupt-driven serial I/O
• FLASH
• Watchdog

Availability

Hardware

Atmel development hardware may be obtained by contacting Atmel.

Software

Source code for both eCos and RedBoot is available publically from eCos releases 2.0 and onwards, as well as from the anonymous CVS repository.

Documentation

Specifications are available for the processor and platform and are available on-line from the manufacturer's web site.

Instructions for installing RedBoot on the EB40 can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide. Board specific instructions, including installation instructions can be found here within the User's Guide.

RedBoot support

Prebuilt binaries of RedBoot are available for download for both ROM and RAM startup. Some necessary support files may also be included. Consult the RedBoot documentation on how to use these binaries.

Thanks

Thanks to Tim Drury of Silicon Motorsports, Thomas Koeller of Basler Vision Technologies and Nick Garnett of eCosCentric Ltd. who have developed and contributed to this port (originally started by Red Hat).