Rig 100 Development Kit

Rig 100

Rig 100 is a development and prototyping platform for projects using Bluewater Systems' Snapper 255 Single Board Computer module. By using Rig 100 an engineering team can quickly start developing and testing the software aspects of a Snapper 255 based project in parallel to the development of custom hardware.

Designed to be used exclusively with Snapper, the Rig 100 Development Kit is the ideal platform for developing software for target products that use Snapper as their system core. The kit offers a wide range of standard peripherals and connectors and can be quickly configured to provide a base from which to develop further custom hardware and software components and access the I/O available via Snapper 255's FPGA.

Rig 100 provides access to most of the features of Snapper 255 and provides users with a set of standard interfaces to Snapper's Ethernet, USB, LCD and touch screen control, audio, serial, IrDa and xD card components, in addition to access to its Microprocessor core, Altera FPGA and memory.

A Rig 100 Brochure [PDF] is available.

Rig 100 Features and Interfaces

Rig 100 includes the following major features:

10/100T Ethernet
USB 2.0 Revision 1

PCMCIA socket
Touch-screen Interface
Stereo Audio Input/Output
16-bit Colour LCD Support

Mini-PCI connector
Processor daughterboard for:

8 user DIP switches
8 user LEDs
Reset switch (momentary)
Expansion headers for access to CPU system bus and FPGA I/O
Single xD/MMC/SD Card Socket

Rig 100 PXA255 Processor Features

The Intel Xscale microarchitecture incorporated in the PXA255 Processor includes:

ARM Architecture Version 5TE ISA compliant

Low power consumption and high performance
Intel Media Processing Technology
Enhanced 16-bit Multiply
40-bit Accumulator
32-KByte Instruction Cache
32-KByte Data Cache
2-KByte Mini Data Cache
2-KByte Mini Instruction Cache
Instruction and Data Memory Management Units
Branch Target Buffer
Debug Capability via JTAG Port

Rig 100 PXA255 Peripherals

Memory Controller
Clock and Power Controllers
Universal Serial Bus Client
DMA Controller
LCD Controller
AC'97
I2C
General Purpose I/O pins
Pulse Width Modulation outputs
UARTs
Real-Time Clock
OS Timers

Rig 100 LAN91C111 10/100 Ethernet Features

10/100 MBit autosensing
Integrated MAC & PHY
These are provided by the Snapper Linux Single Board Computer

Rig 100 Philips ISP1362 USB Features

Low-power CMOS design ISP 1362 USB Controller
USB Spec 2.0 Rev 1.0 (USB OTG) compliant
Full-speed (12 Mbit/s) & low-speed (1.5 Mbit/s)

Rig 100 PCMCIA Features

Supports type 2 PCMCIA cards
Hot swap functionality available

Rig 100 UCB1400 Touch Screen Controller Features

20-bit stereo audio codec
Integrated headphone driver
Four-wire resistive touch screen interface
AC '97 Rev. 2.1 interface supports XscaleTM
10-bit successive-approximation ADC

Rig 100 SDRAM

64 MB or 128 MB (4M or 8M x 32) (on Snapper)
Supported Devices:

Rig 100 Boot Flash

1 MB NOR Boot Flash (on Snapper)

Rig 100 Storage Flash

xD/MMC/SD Card Socket for non-volatile storage

Rig 100 Software Support

Rig 100 supports ARM Linux. Other Operating Systems may be ported by arrangement, or according to customer demand. If you have a need for another OS, please contact us.

Rig 100 is shipped with a Snapper Linux Single Board Computer Module and 'Rig 100 ARM Linux' CD which includes the following:

ARM Linux 2.6.15 kernel
Drivers for all peripherals including NOR flash, NAND flash, FPGA, UARTs, USB host and device, IIC, ethernet, MMC/SD, audio, LCD, PCMCIA and touch screen. Drivers for mini PCI are in development
For the LCD, a frame buffer driver is supplied to operate with SDL, Trolltech's QT, X and various other GUI toolkits
All drivers include full source code
FPGA example source code
GNU toolchain v3.4.5 which includes C and C++ compilers, gdb and insite
U-Boot boot loader with ethernet, serial, LCD and NAND/NOR flash support
Documentation describing the boot process, how to rebuild the kernel, building user applications and storing data on the xD/MMC card, among other topics