
Z8 Encore! XP® Microcontroller
Z8 Encore ! XP® F042A Series
8-Pin Develop ment Kit
User Manual
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Copyright ©2008 by Zilog®, Inc. All rights reserv ed.
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Z8 Encore! XP® F042A Series 8-Pin Development Kit
Revision History
Each instance in R evision Hist ory refle cts a c hange to this doc ument from
its previous revision. For more deta ils, refer to the corresponding pages
and appropriate links in the table below.
Revision
Date
May 2008 05 Updated Introduction and Table 1. 1 and 8
March
2008
February
2008
May 2005 02 Updated Figure 1 and Figure 2. 2 and 5
January
2005
Level Description Page No
04 Changed title to Z8 Encore! XP
03 Updated new Zilog logo, implemented
01 Original Issue. All
User Manual
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All
F042A Series 8-Pin Development Kit.
Updated System Requirements,
Installation, Documentation, and Use
of Ceramic Resonator Y1 sections.
Added Zilog Help Options section.
All
Style guide, and changed ZiLOG to
Zilog.
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Z8 Encore! XP® F042A Series 8-Pin Development Kit
Table of Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kit Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Software (on CD-ROM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Designing with the USB Smart Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Development Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
MCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
UART with IrDA ENDEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Jumpers and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
DEMO Mode Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
USER DEBUG Mode Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Switches S1, S2, and SW1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
External Interface Headers JP1 and JP2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Use of Ceramic Resonator Y1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Zilog Help Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Schematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Introduction
Z8 Encore! XP® F042A Series 8-Pin Development Kit
User Manual
1
Zilog’s Z8 Encore! XP® F042A Series 8-pin microc ontroller unit (MCU)
is part of the Zilog MCU products. The Z8 Encore! XP
Pin development kit (Z8F04A08100KITG) enable s you to become familiar with the hardware and software tools available with this produc t. This
kit consists of 4 KB version of the Z8 Encore! development board that
supports and presents the features of the Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8pin package. This kit allows you to write application software and contains all supporting documents. Z8F042ASB020 is the silicon used in the
board. For more information, refe r to Z8 Encore! XP
Product Specification (PS0228).
This user manual acquaints you with the Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8pin MCU development kit, and gives instructions on setting up and using
the tools to start building desi gns and applications.
Kit Contents
The Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8-Pin MCU development kit contains
the following:
Hardware
The hardware components include:
F042A Series 8-
®
F082A Series
•
Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8-pin development board
•
USB Smart Cable for PC to Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8-pin
development board
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5 V DC power supply
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Packaging
Z8 Encore! XP® F042A Series 8-Pin Development Kit
User Manual
CD-ROM Containing
Documentation
Power
Supply
USB Smart Cable
2
Development
Board
Figure 1. Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8-Pin Development Kit Contents
(Printed Quick Start Guide Not Shown)
Software (on CD-ROM)
The software components include:
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ZDS II—Z8 Encore!® IDE with ANSI C-Compiler
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Sample code
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Document browser
•
Acrobat Reader
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Documentation
The documentation includes:
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Quick Start Guide (QS0055)
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Z8 Encore! XP F042A Series 8-pin technical documentation (on CDROM)
– Development Kit User Manual
– ZDS II—IDE User Manual (UM0130)
–eZ8
– Application Notes
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User Manual
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CPU User Manual (UM0128)
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The sample code is installed with ZDS II and is located at
tion directory>\samples
The documentation can be insta lled with the DemoShield interface or can
be viewed on the CD-ROM using the DemoShield menus and a PDF
reader. A copy of the acrobat installer is provide d on the
CD-ROM and can be installe d from the DemoShield install screen. After
installing the documenta tion on the system Windows Explore r can be
used to select any document to be viewed with the PDF file viewer.
System Requirements
IBM PC (or compatible computer) with the followi ng minimum
configurations is requi red:
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Microsoft Wi ndows XP Professional SP1/Windows 2000 SP3/
Windows 98 SE
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Pentium II/233 MHz processor or higher up to Pentium IV, 2.8 GHz
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96 MB RAM or more
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35 MB hard disk space or more
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Super VGA video adapter
<installa-
in the disk drive.
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