RDC R8610

r8610 system-on-chip

A low cost SoC in LQFP package from RDC Semiconductor with 2 Ethernet MAC, PCI, USB Host having performance 44MIPS with x86 compatible instruction set!

Features:

  • CPU 133MHz, 44MIPS, MMU
  • PCI v2.1 33 MHz interface
  • LPC bus interface
  • SDRAM PC100/PC133
  • 1 UART
  • 2 Ethernet MAC 10/100 Base-T
  • IDE
  • 2 USB Host ports supporting high, full and low speed

custom r8610 board

Custom R8610 board

R8610 evaluation kit

R8610 Evaluation kit

Linux on R8610:

Linux kernel patches:
R8610 timer tick rate patch for 2.6.9-ac9 linux kernel

Patch to compile this old 2.6.9 stuff with recent gcc compilers

Patch for pci.ids just to have nice output from lspci

Patch for R8610 10/100 Ethernet MAC (again for 2.6.9-ac9 kernel)

Sample config for R8610 kernel  2.6.9-ac9

Bootloader: redboot

R8610 Redboot Settings Guide

eCos for R8610

R8610 Redboot patches

Busybox patches:
Patch for proper R8610 reset/reboot sequence in busybox

JTAG Schematic - provided by Gottfried Harasek for MGB100 hacking:

JTAG for R8610 Xilinx cable

JTAG dongle from RDC eval kit:

JTAG dongle from R8610 eval kit