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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

• Cirrus ARM9 EP9307 200Mhz Fanless Low Power Processor 
• MaverickCrunch Hardware Floating Point Math Coprocessor
• Inexpensive Open-Frame Design
• 10/100BaseT Ethernet with on-board PHY
• 3 Serial ports with handshake
• 3 USB 2.0 (Full Speed) Host ports
• Up to 128 MB of SDRAM
• Up to 64 MB of Flash
• 128K Bytes of Serial Flash
• Battery backed Real Time Clock
• SD/MMC Flash Card Interface
• 1 SPI port
• 1 I2S Audio port with Line-In/Line-Out
• Timer/Counters and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) ports
• 4 Channel 12-bit Analog-to-Digital converter
• Graphic LCD Interface with 2D acceleration
• WVGA (800 x 480) Resolution with LED Backlight
• Touchscreen Interface
• JTAG for debug, including real-time trace
• FREE Eclipse IDE with GCC & GDB development tools
• WinCE 6.0 BSP in development.

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
• Dropbear SSH server
• Telnet/FTP support running under inetd
• busybox-httpd HTTP server
• JFFS2 filesystem with utilities
• Mplayer
• many other utilities
• Optional Minimo (Mozilla/Firefox based) Brower (requires 64MB version)

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.

Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment.

EMAC incorporates Xenomai into it's mainstream PPC-E7 distribution to create accurate periodic user space tasks with sub-ms periods. Linux users are provided with several examples of an easy to use interface, which communicates with the boards I/O through generalized hardware classes. For more info on Xenomai go to: www.xenomai.org/index.php/Main_Page.

Development Software

• Bootloader: Resident Flash Bootloader (Redboot)
• 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: Ash shell , Telnet Server, FTP Server, Web Server, and Test Programs

SPECIFICATIONS

Standard Panel PC Functions

• CPU: Embedded Cirrus EP9307 processor running at 200 MHz with Hardware Floating Point Math Engine
• Flash: 32 MB External NOR Intel P30 Flash & 128K of utility serial Flash.
• RAM: 32 MB 100 MHz SDRAM.
• Video: 2D Accelerated Video Interface
• Touchscreen: 12-Bit, 4 wire analog resistive Touchscreen
• Flash Disk: SPI serial HCSD/MMC interface.
• System Reset: Supervisor with external Reset Button provision.
• RTC: Battery backed Real Time Clock/Calendar.
• Timers: 2, general purpose 16-bit, 1 32-bit timer, & 2 16-bit PWMs.
• Watchdog Timer: Reset-on-Timeout
• Analog I/O: 4 channel, 12-bit Analog-to-Digital converter (ADC)
• Expansion: Provison for PCD-E12 I/O module

Serial Interfaces

• UARTS: 2 serial RS232 serial ports with handshaking & 1 RS232/422/485 with Auto RS485
  SPI: High-Speed SPI ports with Chip Selects.
• Audio: I2S Synchronous Serial Controller with analog interface support
• USB: 3 USB 2.0 Full Speed Hosts

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: Intel/Cortina LXT927ALC with software PHY shutdown control
• Ethernet Type: 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
• Ethernet Interface: On-Board RJ-45 connector

Solid State Disk

• Supports: SPI serial HCSD/MMC interface up to 8+ 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 Consumption: typical ~200 ma. @ 24 Vdc.
• Operating Temperature: 0 ~ 50° C (32 ~ 122° F)

PRICING (Single Unit. Includes: Integration, Setup, and Testing)

PPC-E7-0200-0 .. Compact Linux PPC w/Touchscreen 32M Flash/Ram

495.00

PPC-E7-0300-0 .. Compact Linux PPC w/Touchscreen 64M Flash/Ram

520.00

Operating System Options

SL026-A010-020D .. Embedded Linux standard ARM build

Free

25.00

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