ARCOM FORMS PARTNERSHIP WITH WIND RIVER AND ANNOUNCES VXWORKS BSP DEVELOPMENT KIT

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ARCOM FORMS PARTNERSHIP WITH WIND RIVER AND ANNOUNCES VXWORKS BSP DEVELOPMENT KIT
02 January 2002 - Arcom

Arcom has joined Wind River's WindLink Partner Program and will develop joint technology demonstrations as well as pursue co-marketing efforts with Wind River. Arcom is also pleased to announce the market launch of its VxWorks BSP Development Kit for the popular 300MHz SBC-GX1 embedded PC.

The VxWorks BSP Development Kit helps engineers achieve rapid application development by including all the drivers to support the on board features and to execute VxWorks-based applications directly from the embedded Flash. The Flash memory interface has been configured specifically for the SBC-GX1 and is implemented as a DOS compatible driver using Datalight's FlashFX filing system and wear levelling driver. Other BSP drivers support the MacPhyter Ethernet controller, real time clock, watchdog timer, CompactFlash and the GPIO functions.

The BSP also includes Geode GX1 graphics controller support for the WindML 2.0 multimedia library, the Wind River Media Layer driver supporting a range of resolutions and color depth for CRT, flat panel and simultaneous CRT/flat panel modes. The SoundBlaster drivers and analog touchscreen support enables the use of VxWorks for a wide range of multi-media and user interface applications.

Arcom used Wind River's Tornado II development tools to build, test and validate the board support package (BSP) for the SBC-GX1 single board computer.

'Wind River is committed to working with WindLink partners like Arcom to support the broad spectrum of VxWorks and tools developers,' said Caroline Yao, director of partner solutions at Wind River. 'The Development Kit is another step in our joint effort to boost performance and speed the time-to-market of communication and control technology applications.'

Arcom's SBC-GX1 VxWorks BSP Development Kit includes the SBC-GX1 fitted with 32MBytes of DRAM, 16MBytes of Flash, a power supply, cables and a comprehensive utility CD. An optional NEC 6.5' TFT display option is available. The Quickstart installation manual describes how to rapidly build a VxWorks image, download to the target using Ethernet and run a demonstration application.

The SBC-GX1 single board computer is powered by the National Semiconductor 300MHz Geode processor and offers CRT/flat panel graphics, 10/100baseTx Ethernet, 4 serial channels, SoundBlaster support, analog touchscreen input (via a serial port) and 16MBytes of resident Flash memory.

The VxWorks BSP Development Kit is fully operational when combined with Wind River's Tornado II integrated development environment (IDE) and WindML multimedia library.

About Wind River (www.windriver.com).

Wind River (Nasdaq: WIND) is a worldwide leader in integrated embedded software solutions for creating reliable and innovative connected devices. Wind River provides development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity software for use in products in network infrastructure, digital consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.

About Wind River's Windlink program.

The WindLink Partner Program is focused on helping hardware and software developers, system integrators, and consultants create and sell products and services that complement or are integrated with Wind River products. Wind River continually seeks out partners in strategic market segments such as Internet infrastructure, telecommunications, Internet appliances, consumer electronics, and semiconductors. WindLink partners work hand-in-hand with Wind River to provide total solutions to joint customers.

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About: Arcom
Founded in Cambridge in 1982, Arcom has grown to become one of the leading suppliers of embedded computer and communications processors.

Arcom's embedded software development and support capabilities are second-to-none in the industry. Our engineering and support teams in Kansas City (US) and Cambridge (UK) have an enormous depth of experience and knowledge in the field of embedded operating systems, communications protocols, and system design. We pride ourselves on being able to provide comprehensive development tools and excellent support to our OEM customers as they bring their products to the market.

Development Kits - we lead the embedded market with our strategy for new product introduction based on the 'blue-box' development kits. By combining new hardware solutions with the leading embedded operating systems we offer our customers a complete and rapid application development environment.

Embedded Boards - our range of embedded processor boards (x86 and XScale), PC/104 I/O modules, ISAbus and PCI add-on cards are all designed and manufactured by Arcom. This gives our customers fast and easy access to the highest level of technical support. All products are supported by a clearly defined life cycle and a commitment for long term availability.

PCs & Enclosures - we also recognize that customers need products to ease the integration of our embedded boards. Arcom's design team includes mechanical engineers who have developed a number of off the shelf enclosure solutions for stand alone and rack mounted systems.

Industrial Networking - since 1992, we have been actively involved in the integration and deployment of data acquisitions systems for the process control markets. Working with our key technology partners we now offer products and expertise to provide guaranteed data delivery from your field devices straight into your enterprise level applications.

Design & Build - we understand the drive to cost reduce products for high volume applications and to combine this with a 'complete technical solution'. We accept contracts to produce custom solutions which focus on the design of dedicated hardware, developing optimized operating system configurations or complete packaged system solutions.

Through a focused approach to innovative design backed by comprehensive development platforms, global marketing and low cost manufacturing, Arcom pursues an aggressive expansion of its customer base in North America, UK and France.

Arcom is a subsidiary of Spectris plc, the precision instrumentation and controls company.

Our business processes are accredited to the international QA standard ISO 9001 and our products hold all relevant certification.

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