AM335x Development Board

Tomy Devasia

Prodigy 200 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TMDXEVM3358

I would like to know the best suited development board for AM335x software development with the following features

1. NAND flash booting

2. Serial and Ethernet ports

3. JTAG interface

Please help me on selecting the development board

over 9 years ago

0 Yordan Kovachev over 9 years ago

TI__Guru**** 161600 points

Hi Tomy,

Check the AM335x EVM: www.ti.com/.../TMDXEVM3358

0 Tomy Devasia over 9 years ago in reply to Yordan Kovachev

Prodigy 200 points

Hi Yordan,
Thanks for yoour reply. In TMDXEVM3358 development board, I would like to know the following
1. Whether it will be possible to avail two Ethernet ports?
2. What is the size of NAND flash RAM available with the development board ?
3. Whether XDS200 JTAG will be compatible with this development board ?
There is another development boards from MYIR & Embest which also have the NAND flash. So how do you rate TMDXEVM3358 development board by comparing these.

0 Yordan Kovachev over 9 years ago in reply to Tomy Devasia

TI__Guru**** 161600 points

Hi Tomy,
1. The EVM has one ethernet port: processors.wiki.ti.com/.../AM335x_General_Purpose_EVM_HW_User_Guide
2. NAND is MT29F2G08ABAEAWP 2Gb 8bit wide flash memory: processors.wiki.ti.com/.../AM335x_General_Purpose_EVM_HW_User_Guide
3. It has a 20 pin connector. To my knowledge XDS200 JTAG with the appropriate adapter will be compatible for this board: processors.wiki.ti.com/.../AM335x_General_Purpose_EVM_HW_User_Guide

Boards that have two ethernet ports are:
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../AM335x_Boards
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../AM335x_Boards

Other than having two ethernet ports I don't see any advantages of those boards compared to TMDXEVM3358. Both of them have less ram (512MB), compared to 1GB for TMDXEVM3358; smaller NANDs chips and don't have displays. Of course, choosing which board to use, depends mainly on your specific use case.