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Allowing evaluation of the vendor’s ARM7-based CAP customizable microcontroller family, the AT91CAP7X-STK starter kit includes a PCB with the vendor’s ARM7-based AT91CAP7S microcontroller and an Altera Cyclone II EP2C8F256C7N FPGA with EPCS4SI8N serial-configuration memory. Additional features include a 2.8-in. TFT-LCD panel, a joystick, 64 Mbytes of application SDRAM, a 10-bit ADC, 256 Mbytes of NAND flash, and a 4-Mbyte data flash. External interfaces include a USB full-speed device, four analog inputs, an external-bus interface, a USART, an SPI, and a debugging UART. The board supports sensing applications with light and temperature sensors and potentiometers. An onboard Cyclone II FPGA contains 8256 four-input look-up-table-logic elements, equivalent to 66,048 CAP7 MP block gates. The AT91CAP7S operates at 80-MHz clock speeds and interfaces to the FPGA using the peripheral I/O. The AT91CAP7S has 32 general-purpose I/O connections and 75 I/Os on the FPGA. The AT91CAP7X-STK starter kit costs $399.

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