Megrez Intel® Atom™ & EP80579 (Tolapai) Evaluation Board
Megrez Intel® Atom™ & EP80579 (Tolapai) Evaluation Board
Megrez is the first development board supporting both Intel Atom™ and EP80579 (Tolapai) Integrated Processor modules providing maximum flexibility and a wide range of interfaces available onboard or through connectors.
This development board is designed to reduce customers’ application time-to-market, offering a wide range of peripherals, large memory size, LCD display and innovative modular construction, which makes it the ideal tool for development of computing applications using Windows XP and/or Linux operating systems.
Megrez and Mirach/Mizar modules support all major x86 operating systems (DOS, Microsoft Windows including Vista, Linux and its major distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Gentoo and derivatives).
The bill of materials of the baseboard and modules are based on Silica‘s comprehensive linecard using devices from Intel, International Rectifier, Micron, Numonyx, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments.
Board Features
- Supports both Intel® Atom™ (up to 1.86 GHz) and
EP80579 (Tolapai) integrated processor (up to 1.2 GHz) - Zero effort Windows & Linux evaluation
- No JTAG needed
- Micro-ATX form factor (230 x 190 mm)
- Maximum interface and connectivity
- Included design guides minimising the development time of custom interfaces
- Available customer training and hardware design service for custom application
- 0...+60 °C operational temperature range
- -10...+85 °C storage temperature range
Board order details:
Megrez1 (Base board with EP80579): € 1250.-
Megrez2 (Base board with ATOM): € 1250.-
Processor Features
Mirach (Atom):
- 1 x IRDA transceiver
- 1 x SDIO/MMC connector
- 1 x Audio connector
- 1 x DVI connector
- 1 x LVDS connector
- 1 x IDE connector
- 1 x UART connector
- 8 x USB 2.0 connectors (one client)
- 1 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet connector
- 1 x PCI-E 1x connector
- 1 x LPC connector
- 12 x GPIO
Module order details:
Mirach3 (ATOM 1,1 GHz): € 185.-
Mirach5 (ATOM 1,6 GHz): € 245.-
Mizar (EP80579/ Tolapai):
- 2 x CAN bus connectors
- 3 x 10/100/1000 ethernet connectors
- 1 x IEEE1588 interface
- 2 x SATA connectors
- 1 x SSP interface
- 1 x LEB interface
- 3 x TDM interfaces
- 1 x SPI interface
- 1 x PCI-E 8x connector
- 2 x UART connector
- 2 x USB connector
- 1 x SMBus interface
- 1 x LPC interface
- 8 x GPIO
Module order details:
Mizar (EP80579): € 260.-
More Information
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Kit Contents
- LCD display (cable included)
- PCI-Express 1X graphic adapter
- Power supply (12 V)
- Manual & quick start guide
- Peripheral implementation design guide
- USB pendrive containing Windows and Linux demo images
- CD containing drivers, BSP and PDF references
- Silica Linecard paperwork




