EMAC, Inc. introduces the SoM-9X25, a wide temperature System on Module (SoM) based on the Atmel AT91SAM9X25 processor. Designed and manufactured in the USA; this wide temperature, fanless ARM9 400 MHz SoM has an Ethernet PHY included along with 6 serial ports with auto RS-485 provision. It utilizes up to 1GB of NAND Flash, 8MB of serial data flash, and up to 128MB of DDR2 RAM. A SoM is a small embedded module that contains the core of a microprocessor system.
Using the same small 144 pin SODIMM form-factor (2.66″ x 1.5″) utilized by other EMAC SoM modules, the SoM-9X25 is the ideal processor engine for your next design. All of the ARM processor core is included on this tiny board including: flash, memory, serial ports, ethernet, SPI, I2C, I2S audio, CAN 2.0B SDIO, PWMs, timer/counters, A/D, digital I/O lines, video, clock/calendar, and more.
The SoM-9X25 is designed to plug into a carrier board that contains all the connectors and any custom I/O required for the application. This approach allows the customer or EMAC to design a custom carrier board that meets the customer’s I/O, dimensional, and connector requirements without having to worry about the processor, memory, and standard I/O functionality. With this System on Module approach, a semi-custom hardware platform can be developed in as little as a month.
In addition to the option of the developing a Carrier board, one can be purchased off-the-shelf from EMAC. EMAC provides off-the-shelf Carrier boards that feature A/D, D/A, MMC/SD card, keypad, LCD, audio, and modem interfaces. The recommended off-the-shelf carrier board for the SoM-9X25 is the SoM-150ES which allows the user to immediately start coding their application using the powerful Linux or WinCE operating system and tools. The System on Module approach provides the flexibility of a fully customized product at a greatly reduced cost.
EMAC provides a Free Eclipse IDE for Linux development. All the compiling, linking, downloading, and debugging inherent to software development can be done from one easy to use high level interface. When developing for Microsoft Windows CE 6.0 applications, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 can be utilized. Both Visual Studio and Eclipse provide everything the user needs for developing SoM-9X25 applications. EMAC provides an SDK for the SoM-9X25, which contains source examples and drivers. Quantity 1 price for SoM-9×25 starts at $180.
For more information on the SoM-9X25 go to our website: http://www.emacinc.com/som/som9x25.htm
