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LINX™Hardware User Guide

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Coupler®Isolated Interface Development Environment

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FEATURES

Plug and Play system evaluation

Easy evaluation of eight isolated Physical layer

communication standards

Open source hardware

Open source software

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Coupler® and isoPower® technology

ADSP-BF548 Blackfin Processor running uCLinux

Sample PC application

Sample embedded UCLinux application

64 MB RAM

32 MB Flash

Extender connector for additional functionality

APPLICATIONS

Isolated Interfaces

EVALUATION KIT CONTENTS

One each

EZLINX-IIIDE-EBZ

Power Supply

USB-A to USB Mini B Cable

EZLINX-IIIDE-EBZ

Figure 1.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The ezLINX iCoupler Isolated Interface Development

environment provides developers with a cost-effective, plug and

play method for evaluating eight physical Layer, digitally-

isolated communication standards(USB, RS-422, RS-485, RS-

232, CAN, SPI, I2C and LVDS). The Blackfin® ADSP-BF548

processor is used to run the uCLinux operating system and

allows for easy customization through the open source

hardware and software platform. Development time is

significantly reduced for embedded designers and system

architects who are designing and evaluating isolated

communication standards.The Interfaces on ezLINX use ADI's

isolated transceivers with integrated iCoupler and isoPower®

digital isolator technology.

The Hardware of the ezLINX iCoupler isolated interface

development environment contains the ADSP-BF548 Blackfin

processor with 64MB of RAM and 32MB of Flash memory. The

Isolated Physical layer communication standards are

implemented using ADI's isolated transceivers with integrated

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Coupler and isoPower technology. Included are the following:

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Isolated USB using the ADuM3160

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Isolated CAN using the ADM3053 Signal and Power

Isolated CAN transceiver

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Isolated RS-485 and RS-422 using the ADM2587E

Signal and Power Isolated RS-485/RS-422 transceiver

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Isolated RS-232 using the ADM3252E Signal and

Power Isolated RS-232 transceiver

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Isolated I2C using the ADuM1250 and ADuM5000

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Isolated SPI using the ADuM3401, ADuM3402 and

ADuM5000

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Isolated LVDS using the ADuM3442, ADuM5000,

ADN4663 and ADN4664