Introduction; Supported Devices - AMD DiskOnChip User Manual

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Introduction

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DiskOnChip PCI Evaluation Board (EVB) provides you with a quick and easy way to evaluate the
DiskOnChip in platforms with a PCI extension slot. The EVB is a useful tool for designers who need
to evaluate, program, duplicate or test the DiskOnChip, even before their target platform is available.
Once installed, the DiskOnChip PCI EVB can be accessed as an additional disk drive or as a boot
device.
AMD's DiskOnChip products are high-performance single-chip flash disks that provide full hard
drive emulation in all major operating systems and platforms. This unique product offers a complete
data storage solution for applications in which mechanical hard drives cannot be used such as
embedded systems, Internet access devices, network computers, mobile systems and so on. The
DiskOnChip 8MB provides superior performance through a true 16-bit bus interface and offers
security enabling and data protection features.

1.1 Supported Devices

The DiskOnChip PCI EVB supports the entire DiskOnChip product line including:
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DiskOnChip 32MB
a true 16-bit data bus, data read/write protection and security enabling capabilities, 1KB XIP boot
block and a ROM-like one time programming area (OTP).
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DiskOnChip 16MB
a 1KB XIP boot block.
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DiskOnChip 8MB: 32-pin DIP or 32-pin TSOP-II single-chip flash disk. Available capacity:
8MB. Includes a 512Bytes XIP boot block.
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DiskOnChip DIP: 32-pin DIP flash disk. Available capacities: 8MB to 576MB
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DiskOnChip DIMM: 144-pin Small Outline DIMM (Dual In-line Memory Module) flash disk.
Available capacities: 16MB to 256MB.
In order to work with any of the DiskOnChip products, a TrueFFS
natively supported by all major OSs such as Windows CE, Windows 2000, QNX, and VxWorks. The
latest TrueFFS drivers can be obtained from AMD for these operating systems and for others such as
DOS, Linux, pSOS, NT Embedded and more. For other environments (including OS-less
environment) the TrueFFS Software Development Kit
DiskOnChip as the boot device in a non-x86 environment, AMD's Boot Software Development Kit
(Boot SDK) package is required. Contact AMD for the availability of both packages.
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Software utilities and drivers version 5.0 and above are required.
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TrueFFS SDK – a source code driver package available from AMD under license agreement.
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Boot SDK –Boot Software Development Kit – a source code driver package available from AMD under license agreement
DiskOnChip and TrueFFS are M-Systems registered trademarks.
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: 48-pin TSOP-I single-chip flash disk. Available capacity: 32MB. Features
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: 48-pin TSOP-I single-chip flash disk. Available capacity: 16MB. Includes
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driver is required. TrueFFS is
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(SDK) can be obtained. When using the
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