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The ETRAX CRIS is a series of CPUs designed and manufactured by Axis Communications for use in embedded systems since 1993.[1] The name is an acronym of the chip's features: Ethernet, Token Ring, AXis - Code Reduced Instruction Set. Token ring support has been taken out from the latest chips as it has become obsolete.

Types of chips

The TGA-1, developed in 1986, was a communications transceiver for the AS/400 architecture.

The CGA-1 was just a performance improvement over the TGA-1.

ETRAX

In 1993, by introducing 10 Mbit/s Ethernet and Token Ring controllers, the name ETRAX was born.

The ETRAX-4 had improved performance than previous models, along with a SCSI controller.

The ETRAX 100 features a 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet Controller (hence the name), along with ATA and Wide SCSI support.

ETRAX 100LX

In 2000, the ETRAX 100LX design added an MMU, as well as USB, synchronous serial and SDRAM support, and boosted the CPU performance up to 100 MIPS. Since it has a MMU, it can run the Linux kernel without modifications.

Main characteristics:

  • A 32-bit RISC CPU core
  • 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet controller
  • 4 asynchronous serial ports
  • 2 synchronous serial ports
  • 2 USB ports
  • 2 Parallel ports
  • 4 ATA (IDE) ports
  • 2 Narrow SCSI ports (or 1 Wide)
  • Support for SDRAM, Flash, EEPROM, SRAM

The device comes in a 256-pin Plastic Ball Grid Array (PBGA) package and uses 350 mW power (typical).

ETRAX 100LX MCM

This system-on-a-chip is an ETRAX 100LX plus flash memory, SDRAM, and an Ethernet PHYceiver. There were two versions commercialized: the ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8 (2 MB flash, 8 MB SDRAM), and the ETRAX MCM 4-16 (4 MB flash, 16 MB SDRAM).

ETRAX FS

Designed in 2005, and with full Linux 2.6 support, this chip features:

  • A 200 MIPS, 32-bit RISC with 5 stage pipeline CRIS CPU core with 16 kB data and 16 kB instruction cache and a MMU.
  • Two 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet controllers
  • Crypto accelerator, supporting AES, DES, Triple DES, SHA-1 and MD5.
  • 128 kB on-chip RAM
  • A microprogrammable I/O processor, supporting PC-Card, CardBus, PCI, USB FS/HS host, USB FS device, SCSI and ATA.

The device comes in a 256-pin Plastic Ball Grid Array package and uses 465 mW power (typical).

Development tools

Software

A SDK (along with a cross-compiler) is provided by Axis on the development site.

Hardware

A FOX board LX 4+16. Notice the Ethernet, DC and USB ports.
Elphel Reconfigurable Network Camera. Based on Etrax FS CPU and Xilinx Spartan 3e FPGA

Several hardware manufacturers offer 'developer boards': a circuit board featuring an ETRAX chip and all the necessary I/O ports to develop (or even deploy) applications. These include:[2]

  • Axis Communications AXIS 82 developer board
  • Embedded Linux PC from ipcas
  • ACME Systems' FOX board
  • Elphel Reconfigurable Network Camera based on Etrax FS and Xilinx Spartan 3e FPGA
  • Free2move's embedded Linux system
  • Rcotel Corporation's single board Linux computer
  • DSP&FPGA's industrial control unit
  • BBDevice.com remote control systems

References

  1. ^ axis.com - Axis Chip Development History[dead link]
  2. ^ "Showroom @". Developer.axis.com. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
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