(Click here for a larger view of Logic Product Development's LH7A404 processor module)The
LH7A404 is hardly new, dating back to 2004. However, the chip is new to NXP, which acquired it along with the rest of the BlueStreak product line from Sharp in July 2007. The SoC is now aimed at customers in consumer, entertainment, industrial, medical, and automotive industries, according to Adeneo.
The LH7A404 (diagram below) has an ARM922T core, 8Kb instruction cache, 8Kb data cache, a Windows CE-compatible MMU, and 80KB of on-chip memory. In addition to three UARTs, it includes an SSP (synchronous serial port), PCMCIA and CompactFlash bus interfaces, and a programmable LCD controller that supports resolutions up to 1024 x 768.
A block diagram of NXP's LH7A404According to Adeneo, the new BSP supports all of the SoC's display, touchscreen, audio, and USB functionality. It has been designed to work with a previously announced hardware development kit from
Logic Product Development, the NXP Zoom SDK.
Logic Product Development's LH7A404 hardware development kit, with processor module in place
(Click to enlarge)The NXP Zoom SDK includes a 6 x 4 x 0.6 inch baseboard (below) that has an LCD display connector, an R45 Ethernet port, USB host and device ports, a CompactFlash Type I socket, audio input and output jacks, and a five-volt power supply. The baseboard has an SODIMM slot that accepts the 2.7 x 2.4 inch LH7A404 module (shown at the top of the story, above), which is also included with the development kit.
Further information For more information on Logic Product Development's hardware development kit for the LH7A404, which supports Linux, VxWorks, Nucleus, and Micro Digital SMX RTOS operating systems as well as Windows CE, visit the company's website,
here.
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