The development tools provided must be installed and run on a PC with a GNU/Linux Operating system (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu or Redhat distributions). The GCC toolchain provided creates executables that can be run on the EB675001DIP. This toolchain is also required to build uCLinux. Full details of building uCLinux are provided in notes on the EB675001DIP resources page.
In order to run the development tools the host PC requires:
500MHz or faster processor
Installed GNU/Linux distribution
128MB RAM
1GB of hard disk space (3GB if building uCLinux)
CD-ROM Drive
In addition to the development tools, the module usually requires serial communications to access its bootloader and booted system. Most modern PC have serial ports, however increasingly only USB ports are provided, most typical USB->Serial converters appear to work with the EB675001DIP.