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Cheetah SPI Host Adapter

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Total Phase's Cheetah SPI Host Adapter is a high-speed SPI adapter that is capable of communicating over SPI at up to 40+ MHz. The Cheetah adapter is specifically designed to communicate with high-speed, SPI-based flash memory. It is an ideal tool to develop, debug, and program SPI based systems.

Part Number: TP280121
Availability: In-Stock
Single Unit Price: $350

Key Features

Overview

  • High-Speed SPI Master signaling at up to 40+ MHz.
  • Transaction Queuing for Maximum Throughput
  • Fully Linux and Windows Compatible
  • Royalty-Free API
  • Low Cost

Detailed technical information about the Cheetah SPI Host Adapter can be found in the datasheet.

What is Included
  • Cheetah SPI Host Adapter Unit
  • 6 foot USB A->B cable
Software CD:
  • Windows USB Drivers
  • Linux USB Hot Plug Configuration files
  • Royalty-Free API
  • Datasheet
  • Documentation

Specs

High-Speed USB 2.0
The Cheetah adapter is a bus-powered, High-Speed USB 2.0 device. This provides two major benefits. As a high speed device, all the data captured by the Cheetah adapter are transferred to the test computer at 480 Mbps. As a bus-powered device, the Cheetah adapter does not require a power adapter. This makes the Cheetah adapter the ideal tool for engineers in the field. Just plug it into a High-Speed USB 2.0 port on your laptop and you are ready to go.

Low Cost
The Cheetah SPI Host Adapter comes complete with software for only $350 in single unit quantities. Additional discounts are available for larger volumes. There are no additional yearly support contracts and nofees for software updates.

Future-Proof
The Cheetah adapter is completely field-upgradable via USB. Total Phase is committed to improving the Cheetah adapter and making these improvements available to our customers free of charge. There are no yearly support contracts and no software update fees.

Updates will be available for download from Total Phase's Downloads section.

Software

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Cheetah GUI Software
The Cheetah GUI Software is a graphical application that provides an easy way to get developers up and running quickly. The Cheetah GUI software eliminates the need to write custom software to control your Cheetah adapter and is FREE!

Some features include:
  • Full access to all Cheetah /SPI Host Adapter functionality.
  • Logging of all transactions in and out of the adapter.
  • Windows and Linux compatible

Rosetta Language Bindings - Development API
  • Develop custom solutions in C/C++, C#, VB, .NET, and Python
  • Clean API is well-documented and easy to integrate
  • Fully Linux and Windows compatible
  • Royalty-free API can be used without licensing fees
  • No extra development kit to buy, you can download it before you even buy a Beagle I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer.

Compatibility

cross-platform
The Cheetah SPI Host Adapter was engineered from the very beginning to be a cross-platform device. The software and utilities for the Cheetah Adapter function on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X so that you can develop software for your preferred platform.

Windows
The software is supported on Windows 2000 (SP4 or later), Windows XP (SP2 or later, 32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit).

Linux
The software has been designed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 with kernel 2.6. Customers have reported successful operation with SuSE and Ubuntu distributions. Please be aware that there may be significant differences and idiosyncracies in the way that different distributions of Linux operate. As such, Total Phase may not be able to support your particular distribution of Linux. Support will be offered on a case-by-case basis.

Mac OS X
The software is supported on Intel versions of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard.

64-bit Support
The software will run on 64-bit Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems as a 32-bit application.

Going Green

Like Anchor, Total Phase is committed to protecting people and the environment wherever it conducts operations. They believe that it is important for companies to manufacture products in an environmentally responsible manner.

Since 2004, Total Phase has been converting its products to be manufactured without the banned materials stated in European Union Directive 2002/95/EC on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive).

All of Total Phase's products and their packaging materials manufactured on or after July 1, 2006 are fully RoHS-compliant.
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