AT91SAM7X-EK Evaluation Board [closed]

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I just recentely started working with a new board: a AT91SAM7X-EK. I would like to get more information about the board's processor (AT91SAM7X256) and the board's flash. So I looked at a pretty detailed data sheet and a summary of the data sheet, but have been unsucessfull (so far) of finding the information I want. I would appreciate if anyone could help me on the following aspects of the board:

1. How do I connect to the board? Is it through ssh? If so, how is it possible to recuperate the board's IP address. I have an ethernet cable for the connection.
2. How do I load an application onto the board's flash? For example, I would like to cross compile (using a toolchain I've already installed - arm-none-eabi) a simple hello world program in C to load onto my board. How would I go about doing so?

I would appreciate any help on this issue.

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The board is supplied "bare-metal" - no code, no OS. You will not be able to run Linux on an AT91SAM7X-EK - it has insufficient memory resources and rins at 30MHz tops (and has no MMU).

You need a hardware JTAG or DBGU interface device and a tool-chain that will work with it.

You should probably also be looking at the datasheet for the board itself. From the Getting Started section of that:

The AT91SAM7X-EK evaluation board is delivered with a DVD-ROM containing all necessary information and step-by-step procedures for working with the most common development tool chains. Please refer to this DVD-ROM, or to the AT91 web site, http://www.atmel.com/products/AT91/, for the most up-to-date information on getting started with the evaluation kit.

So start there.