FireCracker Development and Reference Design Platform

The FireCracker Platform for audio/video and communications applications is a unique hybrid between a development board and a reference design.

It is available with Analog Devices' popular Blackfin processor ADSP-BF537 as well as the latest ADSP-BF527. With power consumption as low as 0.16 mW/MHz and performance up to 600 MHz, applications can now add greater signal processing performance without sacrificing battery life.

Silica's FireCracker Platform is designed with instustry standard interfaces and peripherals in order to streamline the development process by providing fully verified functional modules and at the same time eliminating the need to perform detailed design of common embedded subsystems.

The Kit contains the FireCracker Evaluation Board with a BF537E Core Module from Bluetechnix. For evaluation purposes the evaluation software is preflashed at the Core Module. Different demonstration applications can be chosen and reprogramming of software updates is either possible for the Core Module or the FPGA.

Key Features

Baseboard:

ADSP-BF537 based Core Module from Bluetechnix supporting 10/100 Mbit Ethernet and USB OTG
On-board Xilinx XC3S1000 FPGA and associated SRAM and Flash
connectBlue wireless LAN module
2 Mpixel CMOS camera
3.5” TFT display, 320 px x 240 px
Connectors for analog Audio in and out (using ADI AD1938)
Connectors for Composite Video in and out (using ADI ADV7183 and ADV7391)
Zigbee enabled wireless interface
USB to UART bridge, USB OTG, SD card socket
Optional Blackfin Debug Agent

CM-BF537E:

CPU: Analog Devices ADSP-BF537 Blackfin processor
600 MHz clock
32 MB SDRAM up to 133 MHz,
4 MB Flash
Ethernet 10/100 MBit
1 PPI 16-bit, 1 SPI, 1 TWI/I²C,
2 UART, 1 CAN, 2 SSP
Dimensions: only 31 x 36 mm
Single 3.3 V supply voltage, on-board core voltage regulator, low voltage reset circuit
NAND Flash interface
2 x 60 pin 0.6 mm pitch connector
RoHS compliant