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An ETRAX FS chip

The ETRAX CRIS is a series of CPUs designed and manufactured by Axis Communications for use in embedded systems since 1993[1]. The name is an acronim of the chip's features: Ethernet, Token Ring, AXis - Code Reduced Instruction Set. Token ring support has been taken out from the latest chips as it has become obsolete. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... CPU can stand for: in computing: Central processing unit in journalism: Commonwealth Press Union in law enforcement: Crime prevention unit in software: Critical patch update, a type of software patch distributed by Oracle Corporation in Macleans College is often known as Ash Lim. ... Axiss products include this webcam, which can be connected directly to a network or the internet, via an RJ45 connector on its rear. ... What is an Embedded System? Electronic devices that incorporate a computer(usually a microprocessor) within their implementation. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operates at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ... Token-Ring local area network (LAN) technology was developed and promoted by IBM in the early 1980s and standardised as IEEE 802. ... The reduced instruction set computer, or RISC, is a microprocessor CPU design philosophy that favors a simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. ...

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Types of chips

TGA-1

The TGA-1, developed in 1986, was a communications transceiver for the AS-400 architecture.


CGA-1

The CGA-1 was just a performance improvement over the TGA-1.


CGA-2

CGA-3

ETRAX-1

In 1993, by introducing 10 MBit Ethernet and Token Ring controllers, the name ETRAX was born.


ETRAX-2

ETRAX-3

ETRAX-4

The ETRAX-4 had improved performance than previous models, along with a SCSI controller. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...


ETRAX 100

The ETRAX 100 features a 10/100 MBit Ethernet Controller (hence the name), along with ATA and Wide SCSI support. Ata may refer to: Father, in the Turkish language. ... SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface, and is a standard interface for transferring data between devices on a computer bus. ...


ETRAX 100LX

In year 2000, the ETRAX 100LX desing added a MMU, as well as USB, synchronous serial and SDRAM support, and boosted the CPU performance up to 100 MIPS. Unlike devices with no MMU, it is capable to run a Linux kernel with no modifications to the Linux memory management code. MMU is the initialism (acronym) for: Manchester Metropolitan University Manned Maneuvering Unit, in astronautics Memory management unit, in computer architecture Mono Methyl Urea, in chemistry Multimedia University, a private university in Malaysia Myanmar Maritime University, a school of science and engineering under the Ministry of Transport of Myanmar Government. ... Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... MIPS may mean: MIPS architecture, a RISC microprocessor architecture. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ...


It features:

  • A 32 bit RISC CPU core
  • 10/100 MBit Ethernet controller
  • 4 asynchronous serial ports
  • 2 synchronous serial ports
  • 2 USB ports
  • 2 Parallel ports
  • 4 ATA (IDE) ports
  • 2 Narrow SCSI ports (or 1 Wide)
  • Support for SDRAM, Flash, EEPROM, SRAM

The device comes in a 256-pin Plastic Ball Grid Array package and uses 350 mW power (typical).


See also: http://developer.axis.com/products/etrax100lx/index.html


ETRAX 100LX MCM

This system-on-a-chip is an ETRAX 100LX plus some flash memory, some SDRAM and an ethernet PHYceiver. There were two versions comercialized: the ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8 (2 MB flash, 8 MB SDRAM), and the ETRAX MCM 4-16 (4 MB flash, 16 MB SDRAM). System-on-a-chip (SoC or SOC) is an idea of integrating all components of a computer system into a single chip. ... A USB flash drive. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... PHYceiver is a device that operates at PHY level of OSI network model. ...


See also: http://developer.axis.com/products/mcm/index.html


ETRAX FS

Designed in 2005, and with full Linux 2.6 support, this chip features:

  • A 200 MIPS, 32-bit RISC with 5 stage pipeline CRIS CPU core with 16 kB data and 16 kB instruction cache and a MMU.
  • Two 10/100 Ethernet controllers
  • Crypto accelerator, supporting AES, DES, 3DES, SHA-1 and MD5.
  • 128 kB on-chip RAM
  • A microprogrammable I/O processor, supporting PC-Card, CardBus, PCI, USB FS/HS host, USB FS device, SCSI and ATA.

The device comes in a 256-pin Plastic Ball Grid Array package and uses 465 mW power (typical). Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computers processor speed. ... Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), is a microprocessor CPU design philosophy that favors a smaller and simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. ... Diagram of a CPU memory cache A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. ... This 68451 MMU could be used with the Motorola 68010 MMU, short for memory management unit or sometimes called paged memory management unit as PMMU, is a class of computer hardware components responsible for handling memory accesses requested by the CPU. Among the functions of such devices are the translation... AES is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: Advanced Encryption Standard, in cryptography, a standardized block cipher Advanced Encryption Standard process, in cryptography, the process of choosing an algorithm for standardization as AES Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Aes (album) AES Corporation AES Data Ltd, Canada AES/EBU... Look up Des and des in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In cryptography, Triple DES (also 3DES) is a block cipher formed from the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher. ... The SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) family is a set of related cryptographic hash functions designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ... In cryptography, MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. ... A microprogram implements a CPU instruction set. ...


See also: http://developer.axis.com/products/etraxfs/index.html


Development tools

Software

A Linux-based cross compiler is provided by Axis and can be downloaded from their website [2] along with a range of sample applications. Pre-compiled images are also available.


Hardware

A FOX board LX 4+16. Notice the Ethernet, D/C and USB ports.
A FOX board LX 4+16. Notice the Ethernet, D/C and USB ports.

Several hardware manufacturers offer 'developer boards': a circuit board featuring an ETRAX chip and all the necessary I/O ports to develop (or even deploy) applications. These include: Image File history File links Acmesystems_foxboard_4_16. ... Image File history File links Acmesystems_foxboard_4_16. ... Close-up photo of one side of a motherboard PCB, showing conductive traces, vias and solder points for through-hole components on the opposite side. ...

  • Axis Communications' AXIS 82 developer board
  • ACME Systems' FOX board
  • Elphel smart cameras
  • Free2move's embedded Linux system
  • Rcotel Corporation's single board Linux computer
  • DSP&FPGA's industrial control unit
  • BBDevice remote control systems

See also: http://developer.axis.com/showroom/index.html Axiss products include this webcam, which can be connected directly to a network or the internet, via an RJ45 connector on its rear. ...


External links

SDK, how-tos, sample applications: http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=14


  Results from FactBites:
 
ETRAX CRIS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (294 words)
ETRAX stood for Ethernet, Token Ring, AXis, but is no longer accurate as token ring support has been removed from the latest chips.
ETRAX 100LX was designed to run full Linux kernel and is supported in kernels 2.4 and 2.6.
ETRAX FS, 32-bit RISC with 5 stage pipeline (CRIS CPU core) with 16 kB data and 16 kB instruction cache and a MMU.
FW: Kaffe JVM for Etrax/CRIS (455 words)
Kaffe with the CRIS specifics and a Makefile suitable for the Axis Developer Board is available here: http://developer.axis.com/download/apps/apps-kaffe-R1_0_0.tgz.
The Kaffe for CRIS port should be considered a Beta release.
/MiP ---------------------------------- This is "Kaffe OpenVM" for CRIS.
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