NS9360

• 32-bit system-on-chip with ARM926EJ-S core
• Up to 177 MHz with 8/4 KB of I-/D-cache
• Integrated 10/100 Mbit Ethernet MAC
• Comprehensive set of peripherals and interfaces
• Industrial and commercial operating temperature
• Product brief

The NS9360 offers a whole new level of performance to network-attached processing. It provides a full-duplex 10/100 Mbit Ethernet interface with more than enough additional processing performance and bandwidth to handle sophisticated embedded applications. The processor is based on the ARM 926EJ-S core, which offers both DSP and Java byte code instructions. The NS9360 operates at up to 177 MHz and contains a broad set of industry standard peripherals such as USB 2.0 device, USB 2.0 device, I2C, 1284, serial ports and a high-performance LCD controller.

• 32-bit ARM926EJ-S RISC Processor
• External System-Bus Interface
• System Boot
• High-Performance 10/100 Ethernet MAC
• Flexible LCD Controller
• USB Ports
• Serial Ports
• I²C Port
• 1284 Parallel Peripheral-to-Host Port
• System Bus DMA
• Peripheral Bus DMA
• External Peripheral DMA
• Power Management (Patent Pending)
• Vector Interrupt Controller
• General Purpose Timers/Counters/PWN
• System Timers
• General Purpose I/O
• External Interrupts
• Real Time Clock
• Clock Generator
• Operating Voltage
• Operating Frequency
• Power Consumption
• Package
• Details on ARM9 Core

32-bit ARM926EJ-S RISC Processor

• 103, 155, 177 MHz
• 5-stage pipeline
• Harvard architecture
• 8 kB I-Cache and 4 kB D-Cache
• 32-bit ARM and 16-bit Thumb instruction sets, can be mixed for performance/code density tradeoffs
• MMU to support virtual memory based OS’s such as Linux, WinCE/Pocket PC, VxWorks, others
• DSP instruction extensions, improved divide, single cycle MAC
• ARM Jazelle, 1200CM (CoffeeMarks) Java Accelerator
• Embedded ICE-RT debug unit
• JTAG boundary scan, BSDL support
• Clock-gated processor for decreased power dissipation

External System-Bus Interface

• 32-bit data bus, 32-bit internal address bus, 28-bit external address bus
• Glueless interface to SDRAM,SRAM, EEPROM, buffered DIMM, Flash
• Up to 256 MB SDRAM, up to 2 GB DIMM
• 4 static and 4 dynamic memory chip selects
• 0-63 wait states per chip select
• Self-refresh during system sleep mode
• Automatic dynamic bus sizing to 8-bits, 16-bits, 32-bits
• Burst-mode support with automatic data width adjustment
• 2 external DMA channels for external peripheral support

System Boot

• High-speed boot from 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit ROM or Flash
• Hardware-supported low cost boot from serial EEPROM through SPI port (patent pending)

High-Performance 10/100 Ethernet MAC

• MII/RMII PHY interfaces
• Full-duplex or half-duplex
• Station, broadcast, or multicast address filtering
• 2 kB RX FIFO
• 256B Tx FIFO with on-chip buffer descriptor ring (Eliminates under runs and decreases bus traffic)
• Separate Tx and Rx DMA channels
• Intelligent receive-side buffer size selection
• Support for full statistics gathering
• Support for external CAM filtering

Flexible LCD Controller

• Supports commercially available displays up to SVGA
• Active Matrix color TFT displays
• Up to 18 bpp; 256k colors
• Single- and dual-panel color
  • Up to 16 bpp 4:4:4 RGB; 3375 colors
• Single and dual-panel monochrome STN displays
• 1, 2, 4 bpp palletized grayscale
• Formats image data and generates timing control signals
• Internal programmable palette-LUT and grayscaler support different color techniques
• Programmable panel-clock frequency

USB Ports

• USB v.2.0 Full speed (12 Mbps) and Low speed (1.5 Mbps)
• OHCI host and 13 end point device
• Single PHY can be used with either host or device
• Interface to external PHY for simultaneous host and device operation
• Each USB device endpoint is supported by a dedicated DMA channel, 13 total
• 20B Rx FIFO and 20B Tx FIFO

Serial Ports

• 4 serial modules, each independently configurable to UART mode, HDLC mode, SPI Master mode, or SPI Slave mode
• Bit rates from 75 bps to 1.8 Mbps:asynchronous x8 mode
• Max bit rates for synchronousmode are:
  • 1/16 CPU speed for SPI master
  • 1/32 CPU speed for SPI slave
• UART provides
  • High-performance hardware and software flow control
  • Odd, even, or no parity- 5, 6, 7 or 8 bits
  • 1 or 2 stop bits
  • Receive-side character and buffer gap timers
• Internal or external clock support, digital PLL for Rx clock extraction
• 4 receive-side data match detectors
• 2 dedicated DMA channels per module, 8 channels total
• 32 byte Tx FIFO and 32 byte RxFIFO per module

I²C Port

• I²C v.1.0, configurable to Master or Slave mode
• Bit rates: fast (400 kHz) or normal (100 kHz) with clock stretching
• 7-bit and 10-bit address modes

1284 Parallel Peripheral-to-Host Port

• All standard modes:
  • ECP, Byte, Nibble, Compatibility
• RLE (Run Length Encoding) decoding of compressed data in ECP mode
• Operating clock from 100 kHz to 2 MHz
• 4 dedicated DMA channels
  • 2 for data and 2 for control
• Microsoft Plug-and-Play, no Windows driver needed

System Bus DMA

• Every system bus peripheral is a bus master with dedicated DMA engine
• Deterministic bus bandwidth allocation (patent pending)

Peripheral Bus DMA

• 13-channel engine supports USB Device
  • 2 DMA channels support control endpoint
  • 11 DMA channels support 11 endpoints
• 12-channel engine supports
  • 4 serial modules (8 DMA channels)
  • 1284 parallel port (4 DMA channels)
• All DMA channels support fly-by mode

External Peripheral DMA

• One 2-channel DMA engine supports external peripheral connected to memory bus
• Each DMA channel supports memory-to-memory transfers

Power Management (Patent Pending)

• Power save during normal operation
  • Disables unused modules
• Power save during sleep mode
  • Sets memory controller to refresh
  • Disables all modules except selected wakeup modules
  • Wakeup on valid packets or characters
• Patent pending technology

Vector Interrupt Controller

• Holds pointers to all interrupt service routines for rapid service
• Services all peripherals
• Hardware interrupt prioritization

General Purpose Timers/Counters/PWN

• 8 independent 16- or 32-bit programmable timers, counters, or 4PWM functions
• Each has an I/O pin
• Mode selectable into:
  • Internal timer mode
  • External gated timer mode
  • External event counter
  • PWM
• Timers/counters can be concatenated
• Minute-range events measurable
• Source clock selectable
• Internal clock or external pulse event
• Individually enabled/disabled

System Timers

• Watchdog timer
• System bus monitor timer
• Peripheral bus monitor timer

General Purpose I/O

• 73 programmable GPIO pins (muxed with other functions)
  • includes 7 high-current (8mA) GPIO pins
• Software-readable power-up status registers for customer-defined bootstrapping

External Interrupts

• 4 external programmable interrupts
  • Rising or falling edge-sensitive
  • Low level- or high level-sensitive

Real Time Clock

• Time of day clock
• Alarm
• 100 year calendar
• Programmable periodic interrupt
• 10 ms resolution
• Dedicated time domain in the system PLL
  • RTC-only mode available
• Initial time from network through SNTP routine
• No battery backup
• Additional benefits
  • Frees CPU from math calculations
  • Decreased response time for queries

Clock Generator

• Low-cost external crystal
• On-chip phase locked loop (PLL)
• Software programmable PLL parameters
• Optional external oscillator
• Separate PLL for USB

Operating Voltage

• Core: 1.5V ± 0.1V
• I/O Ring: 3.3V ± 10%

Operating Frequency

• 103 MHz: 0 °C to 70 °C
• 155 MHz: -40 °C to 85 °C
• 177 MHz: 0 °C to 70 °C

Power Consumption

• 177 MHz: 1.35W max (estimated)

Package

• 272-pin BGA including 16 thermal balls
• 1.27 mm ball pitch
• 27 mm x 27 mm
• Lead-free; RoHS compliant

Details on ARM9 Core

• 32/16-bit Harvard RISC architecture with 5 stage pipeline (ARMv5TEJ)
• 32-bit ARM instruction set for maximum performance and flexibility
• 16-bit Thumb instruction set for increased up to 35% code density
• DSP instruction extensions and single cycle MAC
• ARM Jazelle technology, 6 CM/MHz = 1200 Caffeine Marks @ 200 MHz
• MMU which supports Windows CE and Linux
• EmbeddedICE-RT logic for real-time debug