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FTXL™ Developer's Kit

Everything you need to create applications based on the FTXL 3190 solution.

Jump-start your development with the free FTXL Developer's Kit. It gives you everything you need to quickly build powerful and flexible LonWorks enabled control devices for TP/FT-10 based networks. Best of all, it's free.

What You Get

  • A complete ANSI/CEA 709.1 (EN14908) protocol stack and API to combine the FTXL 3190 transceiver with a Nios II embedded 32-bit RISC processor configured on an Altera Cyclone II/III family FPGA device
  • Automated code generation to implement complex device interfaces
  • Example Altera Quartus® II design files

Features

  • The highest-power ANSI/CEA-709.1 (EN14908) protocol implementation available
  • Royalty-free
  • Free download
  • Automatic code generation supports complex interface definitions base on Neuron C model files
  • Runs on the Nios II embedded 32-bit RISC processor with 55-165 DMIPS performance
  • Targets powerful, low-cost FPGA technology from Altera
  • Quick-start example hardware design targets the Devboards DBC2C20 Cyclone II dev and FTXL Transceiver development boards
  • Supports up to 4,096 network variables
  • Supports LonMark standard changeable types
  • Supports dynamically created network variables
  • Allows up to 4,096 address table and 8,192 alias table entries
  • Up to 200 concurrent receive and 2500 send transactions
  • Flexible model for persistent data storage; includes direct flash and flash file system examples
  • Complete LonTalk API and protocol stack provided as a compiled library
  • Built on the Micrium µC/OS-II, The Real-Time Kernel
  • Operating system compatibility layer lets you easily port to other RTOS solutions

 

Free Download

Download the full version of the FTXL Developer's Kit in a self-extracting archive. After downloading, see the installation instructions.

Developer Resources

Altera Quartus II FPGA design software for Cyclone II/III family FPGAs that include the Nios II embedded 32-bit RISC processor used in FTXL based solutions.

Altera Nios II Embedded Design Suite. The powerful C/C++ application development platform for the Nios II embedded 32-bit RISC processor.

Micrium µC/OS-II. Royalty-free, real-time kernel used in the example implementation of the FTXL LonTalk protocol stack. Developers purchase an appropriate developer's license to target Nios II designs not running on the DBC2C20 Cyclone II development board.

Devboards DBC2C20 Cyclone II development board. The provided FTXL examples require the following products, available directly from Devboards or EBV Elektronic in Europe: DBC2C20USBB-IPN, DBE-ADAP, and DBE-FT-PAR.

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