Processors - Direct Insight Tools and Platforms for Intel Monahans Embedded Processors

Devices:
Monahans is the latest member of same family as PXA255 and PXA270 which have become the microcontroller of choice for applications needing multimedia performance combined with low power consumption, running WindowsCE 5.0 or embedded Linux.

As a member of the Intel Communications Alliance, and official distributor of Intel Software Products, Direct Insight provides tools, designs, modules, services and technical support and advice to anyone wishing to design in or evaluate Monahans.

Monahans modules and development systems: TRITON
Our TRITON-290 module and StarterKit-4 development systems combine an out-of-the-box development solution for Monahans with production quality module and Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Windows CE.NET 5.0 or embedded Linux 2.6.x, allowing you to get to market in double-quick time by designing in our platform rather than starting from scratch.

The TRITON-290 is even smaller than its market leading cousin the TRITON-270 measuring just 68mm x 26mm . This plugs into the StarterKit-4, which provides connectors for the Monahans application processor's extensive on-chip peripheral set, as well as adding interfaces such Ethernet, Video DAC and AC'97 audio/touchscreen controller.

The development setup comes with either WindowsCE 5.0 or Linux installed, with an optional WVGA touch-screen monitor.

For production, you simply design your own baseboard with the necessary connectors, and modify the supplied production-quality BSP to suit your interfaces. Or we can do this work for you.

Monahans reference designs: Sophia Sandgate-III
Sandgate III is our new reference platform for Monahans. Like Intel's own reference designs such as Zylonite, this reference design ships as a full DVK including a working board with all schematics and BSP source codes supplied. However, the Sandgate III is a compact, highly integrated and professionally supported design intended to allow you to get your own development underway at maximum speed. It is also an ideal generic platform to get your application development started.

The standard Sandgate-III includes an integrated VGA touch-screen, and a wide range of interfaces including Audio, SD/Memory Stick, CF, SIM, IrDA, RS-232C, USB 2.0, USB 1.1, LAN, JTAG. New to the Sandgate-III design are an integrated hard-disk drive, S-Video I/O and an on-board WLAN module (802.11a/b/g), as well as the integration of NAND-Flash made possible by the Monahans memory controller.

Monahans design tools: Intel
C++ Software Development Tool Suite 2.0 Professional
Direct Insight is pleased to be able to supply Intel's own tools for PXA270 and Monahans which leverage the extended instruction set capabilities of the Intel Personal Client Architecture. The Intel toolsuite supports WMMX and WMMX 2 instruction set extensions, and includes comprehensive optimisations and libraries permitting greatly enhanced performance, optimised code-size and reduced power consumption when using PXA devices.

The Intel compiler is also available as a plug-in for Platform Builder or Visual Studio for WindowsCE .NET 5.0 users.

Monahans JTAG Emulator: Sophia EJ-Debug
The Sophia EJ-Debug range of JTAG emulators provide a cost-effective and powerful debug interface for all PXA series processors including Monahans. Comprehensive interfacing with debug tools including Platform Builder, Intel XDB and GDB is available.