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Blunk Announces $5K RTOS Bundle for the ZedBoard

San Jose, CA (January 27, 2016) - Blunk Microsystems announces turnkey support for ZedBoard Zynq™-7000 Development Kit. The support includes a free debugger, free RTOS, middleware evaluation libraries, and a board support package with the following features:

  • First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) with TFTP support. Allows the FSBL, bitstream file, and CPU0/CPU1 applications to be independently updated via menu-driven TFTP. Automatically loads the bitstream and TargetOS application files at reset.
  • Low-level initialization for hosting TargetOS™, Blunk Microsystem’s high-performance real-time operating system on the Zynq’s ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs.
  • Configures ARM Cortex-A9 instruction cache, data cache, and MMU in copyback mode for maximum performance. Provides API to flush, invalidate, and synchronize the instruction and data caches for coherency with DMA bus masters.
  • Zynq EHCI USB 2.0 driver for Blunk Microsystems’ USB host stack TargetUSB™.
  • Zynq Gigabit Ethernet driver for TargetTCP™, Blunk Microsystems’ IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack. Supports high-throughput streaming. Zero-copy interface with minimal time in the Ethernet interrupt handler.
  • Zynq Quad SPI driver for Spansion’s S25FL256S NOR flash supports TargetXFS™ file system volumes and storage for the FSBL, bitstream file, and TargetOS applications.
  • Zynq SD controller driver for DMA-based high-throughput access to TargetFAT™ and TargetXFS volumes on removable SD Cards.
  • Zynq UART driver supports full-duplex operation of the Standard C stream I/O routines (printf(), scanf(), etc.) in interrupt and polled mode.
  • Zynq Global Timer kernel periodic tick interrupt driver supports task sleeps and service call timeouts.
  • Zynq Triple Timer Counter (TTC) driver allows applications to generate one-shot and periodic interrupts with microsecond resolution. User callback functions are installed as the timer interrupt handlers.
  • Zynq I2C driver and TargetOS I2C API provide access to on-board I2C peripherals.
  • Royalty-free. Includes full Standard C source code, default compiler settings, linker command files, JTAG initialization scripts, and a user’s manual.
  • Integrated with the CrossStep™ IDE. CrossStep includes a source code debugger with advanced kernel-awareness. It supports JTAG debug connections for board bring-up and Ethernet debug connections for fast application development.
  • A Getting Started guide walks users through board set-up and first use.

For more information, contact Blunk Microsystems at sales@blunkmicro.com.

About Blunk Microsystems

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

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TargetOS, TargetTCP, TargetFAT, TargetXFS, TargetUSB, and CrossStep are trademarks of Blunk Microsystems, LLC.