Products and Technologies for Embedded Systems and Networking

Qong is an amazing general purpose microprocessor CPU board powered by the Freescale ARM1136 i.MX31C CPU. Its compact form factor, reliability and low power consumption make it suitable for embedded applications both in Linux and Windows CE environments.

QONG is specifically conceived for the industrial world, since it embeds the C version of the i.MX31 CPU, which is specifically designed to work in the extended temperature range (-40°C/+85°C). Nevertheless, the performance and the high versatility of the i.MX31C, combined with the powerful FPGA on board, make this CPU module perfect also for custom applications. The complete list of the available FPGA IP cores is reported here.

Qong features can be evaluated through the development kits, which are now available with the new QongEVB host board.

Technical specifications

CPU: Freescale i.MX31C @ 400 MHz

Flash NOR: Up to 128 MB

Flash NAND: Up to 2 GB

DDR: Low Power 32 MB to 256 MB

Size: 73mm x 51mm

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Main Features

LAN: Eth 10/100 w/PHY
USB: 2 Host + 1 OTG
UART : 4 serial ports
Serial buses: I2C, SPI
LCD controller
ATA, MMC/SD, PCMCIA, PWM
Expansion Bus + GPIO
FPGA on board
Linux and WinCE development kits



Qong Profiles

Qong modules come with all essential features needed in order to quickly setup a customized system based on this processor.
To simplify the CPU module configuration, we propose three standard profiles (Industrial1, Industrial2 and Kiosk): they are three basic configurations which provide some interfaces and hide other interfaces, acting on the multiplexing capabilities of the processor. Profiles must be intended as different software configurations of the available hardware interfaces. Profiles are guidelines for three standard configurations: since they are related to software, they can be modified if the customer has some specific requirements.


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Documentation:

Qong Leaflet: qong.pdf
Qong Hardware Manual: qong-hm.pdf
Available FPGA IP cores: IP cores table

Development kits:

The Qong Embedded Linux Kit (QELK) and the Qong Windows Embedded CE Kit (QWCK) are available for download for registered users from the restricted area. The development kits include the QongEVB host board or the QongEVB-Lite board.


QongEVB

The QongEVB is the host board that allows customers to test each interface provided by Qong:





The kits based on the QongEVB are QELK-H and QWCK-H



QongEVB-Lite

The QongEVB-Lite is an evaluation board which allow to quickly start working on a Qong system:


The Qong EVB-Lite is built around the Qong module, adding real-world, edge-of-board connectors for the most common I/O interfaces and offers 256MB DDR RAM and 128MB each of NOR and NAND flash.


The kits based on the QongEVB-Lite are QELK-L and QWCK-L.

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An optional kit component is the LCD adapter, which allows customers to connect one of the supported displays to the QongEVB/QongEVB-Lite, adding off-the-shelf graphical capabilities (see picture below).






Kit Pricing