Emerson Sandpoint II (PPCEVAL-SP2-750)ATX form factor motherboard PowerPC development platform

Emerson Sandpoint II (PPCEVAL-SP2-750)

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Architecture:	PowerPC / Power Architecture
Processor group:	PowerPC 750 (Freescale and IBM)
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The Sandpoint II Evaluation System demonstrates the capabilities of the PowerPC® processors and the MPC107 PCI Bridge/Integrated Memory Controller, and is the ideal platform for software development and debug, as well as for hardware development.

The Sandpoint Evaluation System allows system designers to take months off their system design cycle by providing a complete PowerPC system that hardware and software development teams can both begin working on immediately. This eliminates the need to wait until the hardware team gets a board running to start application software development.

Sandpoint can be used as the starting point or a baseline design to help determine the best system design for a new product. It allows performance testing and evaluation of a number of PowerPC processors running at various speeds and configurations.

Sandpoint is housed in an ATX mini-tower case. The Sandpoint motherboard is an ATX form factor with a PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) connector for the PowerPC processor. The Sandpoint PPCEVAL-SP2-750 processor is a MPC750/107 PMC module with 1 MB L2 cache. The PMC includes 32-MB of SDRAM already installed. Debug monitor software, DINK32, is also provided with the system.

Up to four PCI slot-based devices are supported. Two of these PCI slots are 5 volts and 32-bit. The other two PCI slots are 3.3 volts and 64-bit. The super I/O chip provides two standard 16650 compatible serial ports, an IEEE 1284 parallel port, a floppy disk port, two IDE ports, and PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors.

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