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The MPC8540ADS board is designed to aid hardware and software developers of
the PowerQUICC® III family by providing an evaluation platform for the MPC8540
in the 783-pin FC-PBGA package. The ADS helps to fill the void between the
traditional design-focused, electrical, circuit, and logical testing and actual
customer applications. While the ADS cannot practically mimic every possible
customer design, it does provide exposure to issues associated with the simultaneous
operation of various interfaces and protocols that are more likely to be found
in specific market applications. In addition to verifying the simultaneous
operation of interfaces and protocols, the ADS provides a level of systems
performance characterization that will prove useful to users.
Using the ADS on-board resources and an associated debugger, developers are
able to download and run code, set breakpoints, display memory and registers,
and connect proprietary hardware via the expansion connectors. That code can
then be incorporated into a desired system with the MPC8540 processor.
Who should order this product:
Developers using the MPC8540.