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FOX Board
Complete Linux System on a Board

"FOX Board is a ready to use and low cost Linux embedded board designed to reduce the time to market of your embedded projects."

FOX Board is manufactured by ACME Systems and runs a real Linux operating system (not a uC Linux) on an ETRAX 100LX microprocessor, a 100MIPS RISC CPU made by Axis (http://developer.axis.com).

US$224.90            

FOX Board has two main field applications:

  • As a stand alone device to build a micro web server or other network devices as proxy, router, firewall, etc.
  • As a core engine to plug onto the PCB of a user application board instead of a simple microcontroller.

 

Software Features

  Kernel

Full Linux ver 2.4.31 (default) or 2.6.15

Server

HTTP (WEB), FTP, SSH, TELNET

Driver 

USB Pen driver, FTDI and PROLIFIC USB to Serial Converter

SDK

Open source SDK for Linux Systems

Language 

 C, C++, PHP, PYTHON, etc

Tools

Easy to use GNU C compiler service available on ACME web

 

Hardware Features

  Size

66 x 72 mm (2.6 x 2.8 inches)

CPU

Axis Etrax 100LX, 32 bit, RISC, 100MHz (100 MIPS)

Memory 

8MB Flash, 32 MB RAM (FOXLX832)

Power

5V, 280mA (1 Watt)

Ports 

1 Ethernet (10/100 Mb/s),
2 USB 1.1,
1 Serial Consol Port

Extension

2 extension sockets with IDE, SCSI, serial lines, parallel ports, I/O lines, I2C bus interface

Weight

37 gr

Temperature Range

0-70 °C

Extension Sockets

On either side of the Fox board it is possible to solder two 20x2 pin strip connectors step 2.54mm (0.1") to put the FOX Board over an application board or move signals to another board using normal 40 pin flat cables.

A lot of peripherals can be connected to the FOX Board using these signals and hardware adapters when needed:

  • Up to 2 parallel ports or 1 wide parallel port (**)
  • Up to 4 IDE ports (8 peripherals) (**)
  • Up to 2 SCSI ports or 1 wide SCSI port (**)
  • I2C bus
  • Up to 48 general purpose I/O (**)
  • Up to 4 asynch serial ports (**) (***)


Extension socket lines

Notes
All the signal lines on the extension sockets need mechanical and/or electrical adapters to be used.
(*) With no usb or other devices connected
(**) Not all the signals on the extension sockets can be used at the same time. The peripheral signals configuration depends on Kernel setup and line assignments.
(***) The serial ports on Axis are four: 1 asynchronous port is already used as console (/dev/ttyS0) and it is not available on the extension sockets but only on the console connector J10; 1 other port (/dev/ttyS1) is in common with the USB1 port, the other 2 ports are completely available (/dev/tty2 and /dev/tty3). One of these can be configured also as RS485 or synchronous.