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netRAPID Chip Carrier | Design Guide

2 Product overview

netRAPID chip carriers are for easy and fast integration into a host system:

 Fully functional 32 x 32 mm chip carrier that can be soldered directly on a PCB of the host

system,

 for a direct network connection, only a connector on PCB is needed,

 parallel dual-port memory or serial dual-port memory (fast SPI slave interface),

 LEDs,

 address switches.

Hardware development is confined to connect the network connector, the LEDs and possibly an

address switch. The interface from the host system to the netRAPID device is either a parallel

dual-port memory interface or a serial dual-port memory interface by means of a fast SPI

connection.

The netRAPID can be soldered manually onto the host system and simplifies prototype production.

For series production netRAPID can be soldered onto a host system PCB using SMD.

Steps

1. Start with the Evaluation Board. Each Evaluation Board is equipped with a soldered-on

netRAPID to start evaluation immediately.

Figure 1: Evaluation Board, 3 pcs. netRAPID and Evaluation DVD with software tools

The netRAPID Evaluation DVD contains limited versions of Loadable Firmware (LFW) for

testing and evaluation purposes, software tools for configuring the netRAPID, for

downloading firmware and for testing I/O communication, C-Toolkit (source code for

developers of non-Windows target platforms and embedded systems), USB drivers for

Windows (needed for accessing the USB diagnostic interface of the netRAPID from a

Windows configuration PC), cifX Device Driver (needed for accessing the host interface of

the netRAPID from a Windows PC via PCI), PDF documentation for users and developers.