MPE Hardware

Last update: 4 January 2005

ARM-based Ethernet boards

Currently in development are ARM-based control boards (180MHz and 60MHz) with integrated Ethernet facilities. These are ideal for control and instrumentation applications and will be supplied with a pre-configured Forth, TCP/IP stack, web server and Telnet.

For more software details see our Forth 6 and PowerNet pages.

MPE USB ARM Stamp

The MPE USB ARM Stamp is a small board (80 by 48 mm, 3.2 by 1.9 inches) containing a powerful CPU, Flash, SRAM, and peripherals. The Flash is supplied with a multi-tasking operating system and Forth compiler/interpreter. Applications can be developed and run entirely on the board itself, and turnkey applications can be saved to excute at power up. Everything, including Flash programming, is handled through the USB connection, which also provides all power needed by the USB ARM Stamp. Windows USB drivers are provided on the development CD. Mac, Linux, Free BSD and Open BSD drivers are available by free download. A seriously fast bit of hardware. Just plug one into a USB port and go.

NMI NMIN2106-USB

The NMIN2106-USB is electrically similar to the MPE USB ARM Stamp, but has a prototyping area and more user accessible GPIO lines. The USB connection is through the second serial port which is user selectable between RS232 and USB.

NMI TiniARM

The TiniARM™ is a very small board using the same ARM CPU as our ARM USB Stamp and with very similar on-board software. Use the 1" by 1.3" (25mm by 33mm) board as a component in your hardware.

Forth 8051 Stamp Hardware and Compiler

The Forth 8051 Stamp is a professional grade 8051 family Flash development system with board, MPE Forth 6 cross compiler, assembler, disassembler and SPI downloader.

Forth AVR Stamp

The Forth AVR Stamp is our latest Forth Stamp development system with the MPE AVR Forth Stamp compiler, assembler, disassembler, SPI downloader and AVR Flash development. The system uses the 8MHz Atmel AT90S8515 AVR CPU, with 8k bytes of Flash, 512 bytes of EEPROM and 512 bytes of SRAM on chip

MPE PowerCPU Boards

MPE's Powerboard family is designed to provide economical industrial strength systems for real time use. Boards are sized to Half (HE, 100mm by 80mm) or Full (FE, 100mm by 160mm) Eurocard formats unless otherwise noted. Connections to the outside world are though two part connectors for easy maintenance. The user simply brings plant wiring into one half of the terminal block, and plugs that directly into the board. A standard interconnect scheme allows all the peripheral cards to be used by any of the CPU cards. MPE Forth cross compilers are available configured for use with any PowerBoard.

For more information on the PowerBoard Family follow the links below:

• H8/3048 PowerBoard
• RTX 2010 PowerBoard, 100mm by 220mm
• RTXcore EVB