PC/104 Development Kit supports XScale®-based VIPER SBC.
Press Release Summary:
Supporting Wind River's Platform for Industrial Devices, PXA255 XScale Development Kit includes 400 MHz XScale VIPER single board computer fitted with 64 Mbytes DRAM, 32 Mbytes Flash, and 256 Kbytes SRAM. Developer can evaluate component technologies and use VIPER to create connected industrial device. Wind River Workbench development suite can be used to develop, compile, and download applications directly into Flash memory of VIPER system.
Original Press Release:
Arcom Releases VxWorks® 5.5 Dev Kit for XScale® Based VIPER Single Board Computer
Kansas City, USA and Cambridge, England - October, 2004 - 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 29 micro-seconds 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 ICE (Industrial Compact Enclosure), the VIPER-UPS (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.
VxWorks and Wind ML are trademarks or registered trademarks of Wind River Systems Inc.
Intel and XScale are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.
ARM is a trademark of ARM Ltd.
About Arcom (www.arcom.com)
Arcom, a Spectris company (LSE: SXS.L), is a leading supplier of embedded computer and communications technology to industry. Founded in 1982, Arcom has developed a broad range of standard embedded hardware and software solutions for control, data acquisition and data delivery systems. From its design centers in Kansas City (USA) and Cambridge (UK), Arcom is also able to offer Design Services to meet the needs of high volume OEM and specialized customer requirements.
