PRESS RELEASE

Blunk Announces support for phyCORE®-MCF548x, PHYTEC’s single board computer based on Freescale’s MCF548x ColdFire processor

San Jose, CA (September 9, 2005) - Blunk Microsystems has added support for phyCORE®-MCF548x, PHYTEC’s single board computer based on Freescale’s MCF548x ColdFire processor.

Included in the phyCORE548x BSP (board support package) are:

  • Low level initialization of the MCF5485 including CPU, Communications I/O Subsystem, System Integration Unit (SIU) and SDRAM controller, allowing TargetOS™ applications to boot from external Flash
  • Drivers for the MCF5485’s dual Fast Ethernet Controllers (FECs). The driver uses the highest negotiable combination of half and full duplex, 10 and 100 Mbps, and implements a zero-copy interface to TargetTCP™, Blunk Microsystems’ high performance TCP/IP stack. Minimal time is spent in the FEC interrupt handler. Supports TFTP downloads, FTP transfers, Telnet access to the TargetOS command line monitor, and other TCP/IP applications.
  • Interrupt-driven and polled-mode drivers for MCF5485 Programmable Serial Controller (PSC) channels PSC0 and PSC1 in UART mode
  • Support for the MCF5485 MMU
  • Support for the MCF5485 data and instruction caches
  • A menu-driven Flash programmer for installing TargetOS boot applications into the external flash
  • Integration with CrossStep, the embedded IDE from Blunk
  • phyCORE548x BSP is royalty-free. Standard Platform License allows use on one product development and unlimited distribution of executable code in that product. Includes full source code, user’s manual, and one year of technical support.
  • Contact Blunk for a turnkey demo of TargetOS for the phyCORE-MCF548x eval board.

About Blunk Microsystems

Blunk Microsystems has provided high-performance embedded software for 32-bit processors since 1995. Products include an RTOS, advanced embedded file systems, IPv4 and IPv6 certified TCP/IP stacks, graphics library, USB host stack, web server, high-level source debugger, and integrated GNU-based development environment.

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