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UM025503-0814 The Zilog Educational Platform as a Development Board
Zilog Educational Platform
User Manual
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The Zilog Educational Platform as a
Development Board
The Zilog Educational Platform facilitates the development of many applications by pro-
viding a full complement of features for building and testing many advanced concepts.
Modes of Operation
The Platform features the following three modes of operation; these modes, ranging from
simple to advanced, are described in the following pages.
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Serial Interface Mode
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Program/Debug Mode
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Independent/Mobile Mode
Refer to the Application Shields User Manual (UM0256) for operation and program flash-
ing instructions specific to these three modes.
Serial Interface Mode
For students just learning about the Zilog Educational Platform, Zilog recommends Serial
Interface Mode as the best operating mode to begin with. In Serial Interface Mode, a USB/
serial cable is used to connect the Educational Platform to a PC. The Platform is managed
through a preprogrammed command shell and a terminal emulator. The source code for
the command shell is provided on the USB Flash drive that is shipped with the Zilog Edu-
cational Platform Kit.
A procedure for running the Educational Platform in Serial Mode is described in the Serial
Mode Operation section on page 10. This procedure shows how to acquire and set up a
console application and how to begin and perform basic operations with the command
shell and the Test Shield.
Program/Debug Mode
The Zilog Developer Studio Integrated Development Environment (ZDS II IDE) for the
ZNEO CPU is the software environment that is used to program, flash, debug and control
the Educational Platform. In Program/Debug Mode, ZDS II replaces the preprogrammed
command shell that is used in Serial Mode.
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