PROTOstic™
 
  Embedded FPGA Controller

 

PROTOstic™ is a small FPGA-based embedded computing product, designed for use as a flexible, customizable embedded controller. Additionally, PROTOstic™ can serve as a general purpose embedded FPGA co-processing element. PROTOstic™ is also designed to fit into two of the microcontroller slots in the rear of a RABA Core Foundry PROTEUS™ chassis.

The main features and capabilities of each PROTOsticTM include:

• Altera Cyclone FPGA, supporting 1C4/12/20 sized devices, any speed grade
• Capable of running dual NIOS2 processors
• Over 400 DMIPs of embedded processing power
• Custom peripherals and instructions
• uClinux supported
• MicroC/OS-2 RTOS supported
• Nucleus RTOS supported
 
• 10/100 ethernet connectivity
 
• SMSC LAN91C111 MAC+PHY chip (Directly supported by NIOS2)
 
• 16MB onboard FLASH
• AMD 29LV128 family (Directly supported by NIOS2)
 
• SD/MMC socket supports up to 1GB memory
 
• Accepts WiFi and GPS SD cards
 
• Two independent PC100 compliant SDRAM chips
• Board supports 8/16/32 MB x 32 bits wide for each chip
• Micron MT48LC family (Directly supported by NIOS2)
 
• 54 GPIO pins connect FPGA to carrier board via standard 64-pin CMC connector
• 32-bit PCI bus can be supported
 
• Mini USB AB connector supports USB 2.0 and OTG LS and FS speeds
• Phillips ISP1362 host + peripheral controller
 
• Serial boot prom programming header
 
• Real Time Clock with onboard battery
 
• Two on-board oscillators
 
• JTAG header
 
Download PROTOstic™ Product Brief (PDF)



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