The TS-7300 is a multipurpose board
designed specifically for customers
needing extreme design security,
flexibility, and reliability in applications
such as gaming machines, building
security equipment, or critical network
infrastructure services such as network
gateways or firewalls. A 8256 LUT
Cyclone II FPGA is included on the
board. The Embedded FPGA Linux system
is reconfigurable on-the-fly by the Cirrus EP9302 with an Arm9™ core running Debian Linux
when an additional real-time soft-coprocessor(s),
DSP, or specific additional peripheral
logic is needed.
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 single 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, thereby increasing
hardware lifetime and reliability.
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
Linux 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, 640x480 VGA video and
up to 35 DIO lines connected straight
to the FPGA. These DIO lines can
also be used as an FPGA connected
expansion bus instead of the CPU
connected regular PC/104 expansion
bus.
embeddedTS's TS-7300 Arm based Single Board Computers (SBC) are compatible with a wide range of Operating Systems (OS's).
The Linux choice is highly recommended and our products are totally integrated with the open-source vision. The Linux OS, TS-Kernel 2.4.26, is shipped
by default with our Arm based SBCs and includes complete driver support for our hardware within the kernel, enabling quick time to market for end-users' applications.
Examples and source codes are also available for downloading.
The embeddedTS Arm-based SBCs are configured by default to load the Debian Linux OS from the SD card on the first socket during boot up time. The full featured
Debian Linux distribution includes a complete GNU C/C++ embedded development environment installed. In addition, Apache Web Server, FTP, SSH,
Telnet and Samba internet services are available with C/PHP/Perl for embedded CGI development.
The Linux solution for Arm cores is compatible with the RTAI real-time extension, enabling systems with strict timing requirements to be handled with our SBCs. Furthermore, NetBSD has been ported to embeddedTS Arm based SBCs and Java solutions are also available.
Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
Arm is a registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.