Amontec Chameleon POD

The power of programmable logic starts here ...
The  generic JTAG interface Dongle...

The Amontec Chameleon POD is a generic and re-configurable dongle able to emulate a large part of specific parallel to serial interface.
The first goal of the Chameleon POD was to emulates different JTAG interface using the same low cost and robust hardware including an onboard Xilinx CoolRunner CPLD and a 32MHz Crytal..
Amontec provides all documentations and all schematic needed if you want to do you own Chameleon POD configuration! The Chameleon POD keeps his configuration after a power-down.
Also, Amontec provides FREE pre-compiled configuration ready-to-use thank to the Amontec Chameleon Programmer:

... programmable as a true Raven and Wiggler JTAG interface for debugging your ARM7 or ARM9...
... programmable as a Xilinx Parallel Cable III for downloading all your Xilinx CPLD or FPGA .
... programmable as a Altera Byteblaster-MV for downloading all your Altera CPLD or FPGA.
... programmable as Amontec JTAG-Accelerator if you are searching the best JTAG performance

more info ...    buy online... €129.-

Amontec ARM Debug ValuePack

Low cost and high speed JTAG interface for
ARM7, ARM9, XScale, MIPS processors ..
Raven JTAG interface and Wiggler compatible.

The Amontec ARM Debug ValuePack  is powered by the generic Chameleon POD. The ARM Debug ValuePack helps designers of 32-bits ARM processors to have and to have hand on a powerful and low cost debugger / emulator quickly.
After receiving their ARM Debug ValuePack, the customer will configure the Chameleon POD as a Macraigor Raven emulator, or as Macraigor Wiggler or with the Amontec JTAG-Accelerator. Then the customers will run their specific JTAG server (ocdremote for GNU) and the debug your source code on your target processor.

The features of your on-budget solution for  high speed ARM debugging:

• Low-cost solution for debugging ARM7, ARM9, Xscale, MIPS ...
• 5x faster than your own made Wiggler JTAG interface
• Fully compatible with original Macraigor Raven JTAG Interface and the originial Wiggler JTAG probe.
• Still faster than USB 2.0 full-speed JTAG emulators
• Fully compatible with GNU Tool Chains as GNUARM using the free ocdremote JTAG server
• Integrated in commercial Debugger like :
         IAR Debugger
         Greenhills Debugger
         Rowley Crossworks
         Mentor Xray
• Fully compatible with Amontec JTAG-Accelerator application.

The ARM Debug ValuePack Including: 1x Chameleon POD 1x Multi-ICE 20-pin adapter 1x USB power cable

Fully compatible with GNUARM

more info ...    buy online... €159.-

Amontec JTAG Accelerator

The easiest way to speed-up JTAG interface

The Amontec JTAG-Accelerator is a controller speeding-up the serial JTAG interface protocol from an EPP mode of the parallel port of a computer.
The Amontec JTAG Accelerator controller was designed for the Amontec Chameleon POD over the EPP mode and was implemented in a configuration called: amontec_epp_jtag_accelerator.amtsvf.

Feature of the EPP JTAG Accelerator:

Amontec Chameleon POD compatible EPP parallel port compatible Up to a 16MHz JTAG TCK Frequency up to 2MBytes/s JTAG datarate. Baudrate controllable from 16MHz to 244Hz RTCK feature supported Integrated JTAG TAP controller/monitor Test mode feature Auto-detection feature SRST_N and TRST_N signals supported Monitoring all JTAG port signals Easy to adapt software based bit-bang 2x faster than the Macraigor Raven emulator 10x faster than your own-made Wiggler

The main advantage of the Amontec JTAG-Accelerator is that the specification is public and free! You may interface it from your own software very quickly! The JTAG-Accelerator was tested on ARM Debug ValuePack at 363kBytes/s corresponding to the datarate writing FLASH over ARM7, using DCC communication with simple on-chip monitor!

more info ...

FREE Design Flow for ARM, XScale, MIPS, ... with IDE

You are starting the use and the debug of ARM processor series ...
You are searching a low cost, but a professional solution ...
               ... Amontec can advice to use the following Design Flow

Amontec Chameleon Programmer

It is FREE for all Chameleon POD users ...

The Amontec Chameleon Programmer help the Chameleon POD users to configure the Chameleon POD with pre-compiled configurations in the minutes.
The Amontec Chameleon Programmer is very quickly installed and very easy-to-use.
In fact, it allows the designers of 32-bits processors, of ARM7 of ARM9, of FPGA, of CPLD and of Boundary Scan concepts to configure the Chameleon POD with the pre-compiled they need for their specific development tools.
Please ask Amontec if you want a new or custom configuration of the Chameleon POD.

Also, please verify to use the last version of the Chameleon POD programmer and the last version of the pre-compiled configurations.

more info ...    FREE download...

Amontec Reconfigurable Digital Systems

The emerging use of FPGAs in digital systems design allow various benefits which make them a strong competitor against traditional ASICs on one hand and DSPs on the other.
There are different types of reconfiguration methods. They can be divided in two major classes:
  - Compile-Time Reconfiguration and
  - Run-Time Reconfiguration.
They differ mostly in the manner a design is used: Whether in a static way already fixed at the time of compilation or dynamically.

more info ...    FREE download... 

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