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ARCOM RELEASES VXWORKS 5.5 DEV KIT FOR XSCALE BASED VIPER SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER
05 January 2006 - Arcom
| Arcom has announced the launch of a PC/104 PXA255 XScale Development Kit and 'board support package' to support Wind River's Platform for Industrial Devices. The Development Kit includes a pre-installed, evaluation copy of the VxWorks operating system based on Platform for Industrial Devices 2.0 and a 30 day evaluation copy of Wind River's Tornado II IDE development tools. Through this bundle, a developer can immediately begin to evaluate the component technologies and use the VIPER to create a connected industrial device. |
Arcom's Development Kit strategy consistently enables customers to develop applications quickly using a reliable reference platform and a production ready product. The VIPER VxWorks Development Kit includes a complete BSP to support both VxWorks 5.5 and the multimedia capabilities of Wind ML 3.0. You can then use the Wind River Workbench development suite supplied with Platform for Industrial Devices to develop, compile and download applications directly into the 32Mbyte Flash memory of the VIPER target system. "Wind River has worked closely with Arcom's development team to offer a very valuable tool for rapid evaluation and application development," said Andreas Pabinger, vice president, EMEA for Wind River. "By providing a bundled version of our market specific Platforms with Arcom's single board computer product, our customers can develop and run device software better, faster, at lower cost and more reliably." Glen Middleton, managing director at Arcom also added that "performance tests by Arcom engineers have demonstrated a worst case system interrupt latency of 29µs for a heavily loaded system, that's with continuous file copying via TrueFFS to onboard Flash memory and simultaneously handling a sustained ping flood to the Ethernet port." This comprehensive Development Kit includes the 400MHz XScale VIPER single board computer fitted with 64Mbytes DRAM, 32Mbytes of Flash and 256Kbytes SRAM, along with the VIPER Industrial Compact Enclosure, the VIPER-uninterruptible power supply, serial and Ethernet cable set, an optional Q-VGA color display and touchscreen as well as a Quickstart manual. The VIPER PC/104 (3.8" x 3.6") single board computer is powered by the 400MHz Intel PXA255 XScale processor and is targeted at ultra-low power, fanless systems. This board offers TFT flat panel support, 10/100baseTx Ethernet, dual USB v1.1, five serial ports, and expansion via the CompactFlash socket and industry standard PC/104 bus.
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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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