ARCOM OFFERS FEDORA LINUX RUNNING FROM SOLID STATE MEMORY FOR PENTIUM M DEVELOPMENT KIT

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ARCOM OFFERS FEDORA LINUX RUNNING FROM SOLID STATE MEMORY FOR PENTIUM M DEVELOPMENT KIT
10 July 2005 - Arcom

Linux is a popular choice for developers creating high availability communication and server solutions. To accelerate your Linux development cycle, Arcom has introduced a ready-to-run Linux Development Kit for the APOLLO, a Pentium M based single board computer designed for applications demanding long term product availability and high performance fanless operation. The APOLLO is built on power efficient Intel Centrino technology using an industry standard EBX form factor (8" x 5.75"). The Development Kit offers a highly cost effective solution for developers, saving months of effort and allowing engineers to concentrate on value-added application development.

The APOLLO Development Kit for Linux is built on a standard Fedora Core 3 Linux (v2.6 kernel) distribution and includes all the board specific drivers pre-installed on an industrial grade CompactFlash memory card. The Development Kit bundles the APOLLO single board computer fitted with a 1.6GHz Pentium M CPU, 512Mbytes of DDR memory, Gigabit Ethernet and the 1GByte CompactFlash card. Also included is an AC Flex-ATX PSU, full cable set, Quickstart Manual, Development Kit DVD, USB/CF programming adapter, and an optional panel mounted 15 inch TFT color LCD touchscreen display. The APOLLO is an industry standard format (5.75" x 8") single board computer which includes dual independent display capability, dual Ethernet, dual FireWire (IEEE 1394a) ports, six USB 2.0 channels and four serial ports (RS-232/RS-422/RS-485).

Based on a variety of benchmarks, standard tests demonstrate that an APOLLO fitted with a 1.6GHz Pentium M CPU offers comparable performance to a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 desktop yet, consumes only one third of the power!

Arcom has a dedicated team of Linux developers located in Kansas City and Cambridge who are focused on new product development and technical support. This technical resource is also available as a Design Service to provide optimized implementations of embedded Linux and to support customer specific driver/application requirements.

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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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