Development Board, PowerQUICC Industrial Development MPU Tower System Module

The TWR-MPC8309 is a development board for the MPC8309 PowerQUICC Industrial Development MPU. Using the Tower System with MQX support allows a smooth migration path from Freescale MCUs to this 835DMIPS Power Architecture processor featuring an industrial protocol off-load engine which can remove the need for an external protocol FPGA/ASIC. The TWR-MPC8309 operates as a standalone debug tool and can also be combined and used as part of the modular Tower System development platform.

Memory and Integration

• 128 MB DDR2 & 256 MB NOR flash memory
• Freescale accelerometer, audio codec and ColdFire+ MCU

 

Connectivity and Features

• Dual RJ45 10/100 Ethernet ports
• Dual RS485 fieldbus ports
• Mini-AB USB2 high-speed OTG port
  • Host (e.g. 3G/4G, ZigBee®, Wi-Fi®, NAS, keyboard, mouse,...)
  • Device to external host (board power source)
• Full SD card expansion port (e.g. memory card, Wi-Fi®, ...)
• Mini-PCI expansion port (e.g. 802.11n Wi-Fi®)
• Industrial motor control through peripheral modules
• LCD display with capacitive touch keypad card plug-in connector
• Stereo audio out and microphone audio jacks
• IEEE®1588 w/ VCXO fine clock tuning

Debug Interfaces

• Mini-B USB2 full-speed port (debug and board power source)
• JTAG/COP debug head