The Platform Baseboard provides an  ARM1176JZF-S processor at ASIC speed and a fast AMBA® AXI memory system based on standard speed critical peripherals so as to enable ARM V6 software development at near real time.

PB1176 has a large amount of memory and a rich set of peripherals so as to enable standalone software development without adding further hardware. The baseboard is based on a development chip (structured ASIC) implementing the ARM1176JZF-S processor, AMBA AXI bus infrastructure, AXI memory system and peripherals controllers.

A companion FPGA handles the standard I/O communications including PCI transactions.

The Platform Baseboard has been designed to allow expansion so as to allow custom peripherals development via FPGA prototyping. Logic Tiles can be stacked on top of the Platform Baseboard to provide FPGA space to prototype custom peripherals.

In order to accelerate hardware and software development and reduce time to market the Platform Baseboard is delivered with example Logic Tile RTL, FPGA bit files, and software.

PB1176JZF-S Features and Benefits

ARM Technologies

• CoreSight^TM ETB11/ETM11
• Intelligent Energy Management (IEM)
• TrustZone
• AMBA 3 AXI

ARM1176JZF-S Development Chip

• ARM1176JZF-S processor at 210MHz
• 32KB L1 I/D Caches, L2 128KB unified cache
• 8KB I/D TCMs

• Color LCD
• AMBA AXI Matrix
• Memory interfaces
• TrustZone security extensions and TrustZone interrupt controller
• Intelligent Energy Management (IEM)

Companion FPGA

• Xilinx Virtex-4 XC4VLX40 for standard I/O interfaces
• PCI

Memory

• 128MB NOR Flash
• 128MB Mobile DDR SDRAM
• 2MB Cellular RAM

Baseboard Expansion

• PISMO1^TM  connector for adding memory modules
• 1 Tile site for custom logic integration with Logic Tiles
• Attach PB1176JZF-S to a PCI backplane 

Standard Frequency

• ARM1176JZF-S at 210MHz
• Internal AXI and Mobile DDR up to 105MHz
• External AXI up to 35MHz
  

PLDs programming

• In-built hardware to program the FPGAs and PLDs of the system with a USB cable
• 'progcards' utility for PLDs image selection & downloading
• Configuration JTAG Chain

Debug

• JTAG RealView ICE port
• Debug JTAG Chain

Peripherals

• 10/100 Ethernet MAC
• 32-bit PCI controller
• 32-bit DDR SDRAM controller
• 32-bit Cellular SRAM controller
• 32-bit NOR Flash controller
• 5 x UARTs, 1x Synchronous Serial Port
• 16 GPIO pins, user LEDs, 8 user switches
• High speed USB OTG v2.0 and USB Host
• SmartCard, Multimedia/SD card controller
• Keyboard and mouse interfaces
• Stereo audio in/out and microphone
• Generic Interrupt controller
• DVI
• Real Time Clock
• Watchdog, Timers

Supported OS and Board Support Packages
ARM Linux  is ported to the PB1176JZF-S. Please contact ARM for availability of other OS ports to the PB1176JZF-S.

Support CD

Example software for all the peripherals on the board except USB is provided with the board or can be obtained from the chipset manufacturer's website.

• Firmware
  • System and memory initialization code
  • NOR Flash memory read, write and erase code
  • Peripheral functional test program
  • Network Flash Utility for flash programming from Ethernet
  • C library support for stand-alone and semi-hosted images
• Pre-built binaries (little-Endian only) 
  • Boot monitor
  • Selftest
• Hardware (little-Endian only) 
  • FPGA Image BIT file for baseboard FPGA
  • RTL & bit file for example AXI expansion design on Logic Tiles
• Documentation