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PPC- E7+ Manual

Setting up a Panel PC can be a Puzzling experience. However, the PPC-E7+ Compact Panel PC comes ready to run with the Operating System installed on flash disk. Apply power and watch either the Linux X Windows or the Windows CE User Interface appear on the vivid color LCD. Interact with the PPC-E7+ using the responsive integrated touchscreen. Everything works out of the box, allowing you to concentrate on your application, rather than building and configuring device drivers. Just Write-It and Run-It.

FEATURES

• ARM9 400Mhz Fanless Low Power Processor 
• Inexpensive Open-Frame Design
• 10/100BaseT Ethernet with on-board PHY
• 3 RS232 & 1 RS232/422/485 Port
• 1 USB 2.0 (High Speed) Host port
• 1 USB 2.0 (High Speed) OTG port
• Up to 256MB of SDRAM
• Up to 1GB of NAND Flash
• Up to 4MB of Serial Flash
• Battery backed Real Time Clock
• 2 SD/MMC Flash Card Sockets
• 1 I2S Audio port with Line-In/Line-Out
• Timer/Counters and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) ports
• 4 Channel 10-bit Analog-to-Digital converter
• Operating Voltage of 12 to 26 Vdc.
• Graphic LCD Interface with optional 2D acceleration & hardware CODECs
• WVGA (800 x 480) Resolution with LED Backlight
• Touchscreen Interface and Software Controlled Backlight On/Off & Brightness
• JTAG for debug, including real-time trace
• FREE Eclipse IDE with GCC & GDB development tools
• WinCE 6.0 BSP and SDK available
• Android Available

Linux Features

The Linux build for the PPC-E7+ is based on the OpenEmbedded Linux build system. The current kernel is Linux 2.6.20 or higher patched to support the PPC-E7+.

The basic root filesystem includes:

• X Windows (Kdrive X Server 1.4 or higher)
• Matchbox Windows Manager
• Busybox 1.7.2 or higher
• Hotplugging support
• Open SSH server
• Telnet/FTP support running under inetd
• busybox-httpd HTTP server
• JFFS2 filesystem with utilities
• Mplayer
• many other utilities

Custom Linux builds are also available on request.

PPC-E7+ Linux Development

EMAC provides a Free Eclipse IDE that is pre-integrated to provide everything the user needs for developing PPC-E7+ applications. All the compiling, converting and downloading inherent to development can be done from one easy to use high level interface. The distribution provides an SDK for the EMAC PPC-E7+ which contains source examples and Device Drivers.

The EMAC Eclipse IDE is a powerful, yet flexible Integrated Development Environment for the PPC-E7+ and even features SVN version control support. For a screen shot of EMAC's Linux Eclipse based Development Environment click here.

The PPC-E7+ can use most of the EMAC's standard Linux Modules including the Xenomai Real Time, Php, SQLite and Lighttpd web server modules. For a listing of these module see our Embedded Linux Operating Systems Page.

Linux Development Software

• Bootloader: Resident Flash Bootloader (U-Boot)
• Operating System: Linux
• Programming Languages: GNU GCC C compiler GDB Debugger
• Networking: Full resident TCP/IP protocol stack
• Integrated Development Environment: Eclipse 3.3 or higher
• Drivers: Serial RS232/422/485, Ethernet, USB, Hardware SPI, Audio, Video, Touchscreen, Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD), A/D, PWM, and GPIO.
• Applications: Bash shell , Telnet Server, FTP Server, Web Server, and Test Programs

SPECIFICATIONS

Standard Panel PC Functions

• CPU: Fanless ARM9 400Mhz Processor
• Flash: 256MB of NAND Flash, and 4MB of serial data flash.(1GB NAND Flash w/ SoM-9M10)
• RAM: 128MB of external DDR2 / SDRAM. (256MB w/ SoM-9M10)
• Video: 2D Accelerated Video Interface (optional w/ 9M10)
• Touchscreen: 10-Bit, 4 wire analog resistive Touchscreen
• Flash Disk: 2 MicroSD card sockets.
• System Reset: Supervisor with external Reset Button provision.
• RTC: Battery backed Real Time Clock/Calendar.
• Timers: 6, general purpose 16-bit Timers, & Counter/PWM
• Watchdog Timer: Reset-on-Timeout
• Analog I/O: 4 channel, 10-bit Analog-to-Digital converter (ADC)
• GPIO: 16 Programmable 3.3V I/O lines
• Expansion: Provison for PCD-E12 I/O module

Serial Interfaces

• UARTS: 3 serial RS232 serial ports with handshaking & 1 RS232/422/485 with Auto RS485
  SPI: High-Speed SPI ports with Chip Selects.
• I2C: I2C port
• Audio: I2S Synchronous Serial Controller with Line In/Out
• USB: 1 USB 2.0 (High Speed) Host port
            1 USB 2.0 (High Speed) OTG Host/Device port

LCD

• Display Type: 7" TFT Color LCD
• Resolution: 800 x 480 WVGA @ 256K Colors
• Dot pitch: 0.19mm x 0.19mm
• Luminance: 330 (cd/m²)
• Viewing Angle: 55°
• Brightness: Software controlled
• Backlight: White LED (33 LEDS)

Touchscreen

• Type: 4 Wire Analog Resistive
• Resolution: Continuous
• Controller: Built-In
• Driver: WinCE, Linux
• Durability: Over one million touches

Ethernet Interface

• Ethernet MAC: Built-In
• Ethernet PHY:Micrel KSZ8041
• Ethernet Type: 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
• Ethernet Interface: On-Board RJ-45 connector

Solid State Disk

• Supports: SDIO SDHC/MMC interface up to 32+ GB Flash Disk

Mechanical and Environmental

• Dimensions: 7.55" L x 4.15" W x 1.5" H
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Power Supply Voltage: +12 to +26 Vdc.
• Power requirements:
• Typical:  ~500 mA @ 12 Vdc.
• APM Sleep: ~130mA @ 12 Vdc.
• Power Consumption: typical ~200 ma. @ 24 Vdc.
• Operating Temperature: 0 ~ 60° C (32 ~ 140° F)

PRICING (Single Unit. Includes: Integration, Setup,Testing, & Enhanced Support)

PPC-E7+0100 .. Compact PPC w/Touchscreen & SOM-9G45 256MB FLASH 128MB RAM

550.00

PPC-E7+0200 .. Compact PPC w/Touchscreen & SOM-9M10 1GB FLASH 256MB RAM

CALL

SL040-AON-00010 .. Embedded Linux standard ARM build

Free

25.00

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