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ARCOM AND MICROSOFT EMBEDDED RELATIONSHIP GOES GOLD
01 October 2001 - Arcom
| Arcom are pleased to announce their membership at the Gold level in the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner (WEP) Program. The Gold level of WEP has been created by Microsoft to make it easy for customers of embedded Windows to identify best-in-class Systems Integrator, Independent Software Vendor, Silicon Vendor and Independent Hardware Vendor partners. Arcom's strategy is to develop, integrate and support the family of embedded Windows operating system solutions onto their range of PC compatible hardware solutions. |
Arcom are pleased to announce their membership at the Gold level in the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner (WEP) Program. The Gold level of WEP has been created by Microsoft to make it easy for customers of embedded Windows to identify best-in-class Systems Integrator, Independent Software Vendor, Silicon Vendor and Independent Hardware Vendor partners. Arcom's strategy is to develop, integrate and support the family of embedded Windows operating system solutions onto their range of PC compatible hardware solutions.
This is achieved by offering fully packaged Windows CE and Windows NT Embedded 4.0 Development Kits to allow customers to rapidly develop and demonstrate their application solutions. Arcom have been pleased to contribute these Development Kits as part of Microsoft's ongoing world wide series of technical seminars and 'hands-on' training classes. 'Arcom's Windows CE Development Kit allows developers to focus their efforts on developing rich applications for their Windows Powered devices and is one of the reasons Arcom met the criteria for WEP Gold-level membership,' said Keith White, senior director of marketing for the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp. 'Now that customers can obtain extensive information about our Gold level members' innovative solutions, they will be able to leverage those members to help bring their Windows Powered devices to market quicker than ever before.' Arcom have a dedicated team of embedded Windows engineers located in Cambridge, England and Kansas City, USA focussed on new product development using the latest embedded Microsoft operating systems. This technical resource is also used as a Design Service to provide detailed advice and support customer specific driver/integration requirements. As a manufacturer Arcom can support customers in the rapid deployment of embedded Windows systems straight from the production line. As part of the ongoing support for new hardware platforms, Arcom have recently announced their Windows NT Embedded 4.0 Development Kit for the 300MHz National Semiconductor GeodeTM based single board computer. The operating system has been pre-built with the drivers to support the on board graphics, Ethernet and compact flash drive to allow engineers to evaluate and demonstrate the use of their Windows NT Embedded 4.0 applications on the Arcom platform. Microsoft Windows NT Embedded 4.0 is built on the proven Windows NT 4.0 code base and is designed as a modular operating system for systems with and without the use of a display. It offers the security, manageability and sophisticated networking capabilities for medium and high-end applications. The ability to deploy fixed implementations with and without display functionality means reduced license cost and reduced field support and maintenance. The Arcom Development Kit is supplied with a fully licensed Class 2 Windows NT Embedded 4.0 image installed on a 128Mbytes compact Flash card. The Kit also includes the software drivers, cables and documentation to support the on-board features of Arcom's SBC-GX1. Arcom also offers the SBC-GX1 with the Windows CE 3.0 operating system pre-loaded on to the 16Mbyte resident flash drive. This offers secure, reliable operation and the ability to support fully integrated communications and information appliances with no additional disk media. The Windows CE 3.0 operating system and the application can be debugged and reloaded via the 10/100baseTx network interface.
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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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