Intel StrongARM EBSA-285 Evaluation Board

The Intel StrongARM EBSA-285 Evaluation Board platform, based on the Intel StrongARM SA-110 is supported by both eCos and RedBoot.

Supported devices

Device drivers are included for:

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

Availability

Hardware

The Intel StrongARM SA-110 processor has been discontinued by Intel. Please contact Intel for further details.

Alternative Intel XScale-based products are available from Intel offices worldwide.

Software

The Intel StrongARM EBSA-285 Evaluation Board platform is supported by eCos from public releases 1.3.1 and onwards in addition to being available from the anonymous CVS repository. RedBoot sources are publically available from eCos public releases 2.0 and onwards, in addition to being available 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 EBSA-285 can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide. Board specific instructions, including installation instructions can be found here within the User's Guide.

Instructions for installing and using eCos on the EBSA-285 are available here.

The most recent version of the full documentation set may be found on-line here.

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.