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This BSP is for the Technologic Systems TS-1325, an i386EX PC/AT

compatible SBC equipped with 2 standard serial ports and a parallel

port suitable for general digital I/O. It comes with 2MB RAM and 1MB

Flash ROM. Additional information is available at the TS web site:

http://www.t-systems.com.

The BSP uses software floating-point emulation, so one must build the

cross-compilation tools with this support. The BSP also supports the

on-board RTC, and an NE2000 compatible network card. It has been used

successfully with C/C++ (egcs-1.1.2) and Ada95 (gnat-3.11p), including

networking applications.

The TS-1325 runs a version of DOS, and should be configured with a RAM

disk and Zmodem software (see WWW site). RTEMS executables are loaded

and run in DOS conventional memory, giving a 600K file-size limit. The

1MB extended memory is used for the RTEMS workspace, heap, stack and

BSS. Console output is to COM2 @ 115200 baud, 8-N-1. The high baud

rate is needed to speed up serial-line Zmodem file transfers. The

TS-1325 DOS console I/O is by default 9600 baud, and should be changed

to 115200 baud (see WWW site).

A typical development cycle involves these steps:

1. Cross-compile the application, yielding an ELF executable. Convert

   this to raw binary format, using objcopy or the elf2exe script (see

   the tools subdirectory in the BSP).

2. Use Zmodem to download the raw executable to the TS-1325's ram-disk

   (faster than  the A: flash disk). A terminal program supporting

   Zmodem is needed on the host e.g. minicom under Linux.

3. Use the DOS-based RTEMS loader "loader.com" (see tools

   subdirectory) to load and run the executable on the TS-1325.

Additional documentation and support software is in the tools subdirectory

of the BSP.

Happy Coding!

Tony Ambardar, 8/8/99