User guide

6 GR-LEON4-ITX Development Board
Quick Start Guide
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Overview
This document is a quick start guide for the GR-LEON4-ITX Development Board.
The purpose of this document is to get users quickly started using the board. For a complete
description of the board please refer to the GR-LEON4-ITX Development Board User
Manual, the LEON4 system-on-chip is described in the LEON4-ASIC-DEMO Data sheet and
User's Manual. This quick start guide does not contain as much technical details and is
instead how-to oriented. However, to make the most of the guide the user should have
glanced through the two aforementioned documents and should ideally also be familiar with
the GRMON debug monitor.
The GR-LEON4-ITX data package and this document (including possibly newer revisions)
are available from the GR-LEON4-ITX product page at http://www.gaisler.com
1.2 References
RD-1 LEON4-ASIC-DEMO Data sheet and User's Manual, Aeroflex Gaisler, 2010
RD-2 GR-LEON4-ITX Development Board User Manual, Aeroflex Gaisler, 2010
RD-3 GRMON User Manual
RD-4 SnapGear Linux for LEON
The referenced documents can be downloaded from http://www.gaisler.com or be found on
the USB Flash stick accompanying the board.
1.3 Abbreviations
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit.
DIL Dual In-Line
DDR Double Data Rate
DSU Debug Support Unit
GPIO General Purpose Input / Output
I/O Input/Output
I
2
C IIC, Inter integrated circuit, a 2 wire bus
IP Intellectual Property
MUX Multiplexer
PCB Printed Circuit Board
RMII Reduced Media Independent Interface
SOC System On a Chip
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
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