User`s manual

Am486
®
Microprocessor PCI Customer Development Platform
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About the Customer
Development Platform
Congratulations on your decision to design with the Am486
®
microprocessor. The
Am486 microprocessor PCI customer development platform (CDP) provides a
reference design for embedded Am486 microprocessor-based systems using the
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus with an onboard 10- or 100-Mbit/s
Ethernet connection.
The PCI CDP includes 9 Mbytes of Flash memory, PCI and ISA expansion
connectors, and standard PC peripherals to allow customers to develop and
benchmark network-ready firmware and applications for their embedded products.
In addition, the platform’s use of low cost, off-the-shelf components makes it a
suitable example for use in training or as a reference for customer hardware designs.
The PCI CDP demonstrates that a fifth-generation x86 microprocessor is not
required to include a PCI bus in customer designs.
Note: Advanced Micro Devices does not assume any responsibility for the
maintenance of this evaluation tool. Changes to the schematics will be made only
if the board is required to go back through a CAD layout.
Refer to the Am486 microprocessor documentation (listed on page xviii) for
detailed information on the Am486 microprocessor.
Figure 0-1 on page xii provides an overview of the PCI CDP’s features.