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TS-7300 MANUAL

INTRODUCTION

The

TS-7300

's user can power up the board and immediately begin application

development. Of course, should you wish to configure your own version of Linux or use a
different operating system, this is easy too. Technologic Systems provides the solution to
fast application development without tedious OS configuration.

Impressive Performance

The ARM920T's 32-bit architecture, with a five-stage pipeline, delivers very impressive
performance at very low power. The EP9302 CPU has a 16 KB instruction cache and a 16
KB data cache to provide zero-cycle latency to the current program and data, or they can
be locked to guarantee no-latency access to critical sections of instructions and data. For
applications with instruction-memory size restrictions, the ARM920T’s compressed Thumb
instruction set can be used to provide higher code density and lower Flash storage
requirements.

As a benchmark, the

TS-7300

's CPU integer performance, at a supplied 200 MHz, is

about twice as fast as the Technologic Systems 133MHz 586-based products.

Linux FPGA

The inclusion of an Altera FPGA and a dedicated high-speed bus between the CPU and
FPGA provides unique design possibilities in the hands of creative embedded designers.
The FPGA has its own dedicated 8MB SDRAM and customers can load their own
bitstream or use the default TS built bitstream that provides the hardware logic for the 8
serial ports, second 10/100 ethernet port, second SD card slot, VGA video and up to 35
DIO lines connected straight to the FPGA. These DIO lines can also be used as a FPGA
connected expansion bus instead of the CPU connected regular PC104 expansion bus.

SD Card High-Security and Reliability

Unique security features on the

TS-7300

include the ability for the board hardware to first

checksum the boot SD flash card in its entirety before executing a single instruction of
code from it. One may also use the security features of a SD card to hardware lock and
password protect the boot flash card so that the card is only bootable and readable on a
specific

TS-7300

device. Any SD flash card can also be made read-only permanently and

irreversibly once your product is finalized for additional design security.

The board also includes many features for high reliability computing and control. SD flash
technology   is   already   extremely   reliable   compared   to   hard   drives,   but   with   2   hot-
swappable  flash card sockets running full-blown operating systems such as Linux, you
have the option to use RAID on your flash devices to protect against potential individual
flash write  wearout failures. Also,  every component on the board is  rated for 70 or 80
degrees   Celsius   ambient   temperatures   without   heat   sinks   or   fans.   Unlike   typical
"embedded"   PC   or   laptop   motherboards   which   can   barely   sustain   thermal   balance   at
room temperature with large heatsinks, the

TS-7300

operates with relatively huge margins

in similar conditions which increases hardware lifetime and reliability.

1.4 Features

The

TS-7300

comes

standard

with these features:

✔

200Mhz ARM9 with MMU and 32 MB SDRAM

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