User's Guide

Introduction
MPC837xE-RDS, Rev. 1.0
Freescale Semiconductor 7
Preliminary, Subject to Change without Notice
1Introduction
This section presents the features and block diagram for the MPC837xE-RDS board.
1.1 Overview
The MPC837xE-RDS is a reference design based on the MPC8377E PowerQUICC
TM
II Pro processor. It
supports applications of Wi-Fi Router, DMS (Digital Media Server), NAS with RAID, or Office in BOX,
etc. The documentation for manufacturing the MPC837xE-RDS—including schematic, Gerber files,
reference software, Bill Of Material (BOM)—is on the product CD. With the documentation, original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) can accelerate the
development process and speed time-to-market for their real product.
1.2 Features
This section presents the features, specification, and block diagram of the MPC837xE-RDS board. The
features are as follows:
•CPU
Freescale MPC8377E @ 667 MHz
•Power
PoE power solution based on LM5072 up to 30 W output, designed as one daughter
module board
48 V DC input used as the alternative power source when PoE is not available
Memory subsystem
On-board 512-MByte DDR2 unbuffered SDRAM
64-MByte NOR Flash
Interfaces
10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet ports
eTSEC1
RGMII interface: WAN, 1 x 10/100/1000 BaseT with RJ-45 interface, using
Realtek
TM
RTL8211B single port 10/100/1000 BaseT PHY. This port
supports PoE feature
eTSEC 2
RGMII interface: LAN, 1 x 10/100/1000 BaseT with RJ-45 interface, using
Realtek
TM
RTL8211B single port 10/100/1000 BaseT PHY
USB 2.0 Host
ULPI interface: 1 x USB 2.0 Type A Receptacle interface, using SMSC
TM
USB3300 Hi-Speed USB PHY
Serial ATA Controller