FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TOKYO, March 18, 2003- Lineo Solutions, Inc. (Lineo), a provider of embedded Linux, today announced that it has entered into a cooperative arrangement with Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) to provide embedded Linux for TAEC's new AVM79R reference design. The TX7901 MIPS reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor-based AVM79R reference design is a leading-edge evaluation system targeted at media center applications.
TAEC will make its reference design available starting in April 2003 to manufacturers seeking to reduce development costs and speed time-to-market for IP set-top boxes, Digital media server/client and other multimedia consumer electronic platforms that manage networked home entertainment products. The first demonstration of the reference design took place at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany on March 12, 2003.
"Toshiba's AVM79R with mounted Linux has a great potential in the era of ubiquitous computing, and we anticipate this reference board will have an impact on the target market," said Yoshinobu (Yogi) Ushiyama, CEO, Lineo Solutions, Inc. "Lineo will cooperate with TAEC to support the AVM79R and its Linux both in Japan and abroad. We believe that our affiliation with TAEC is a fine testimony to prove that Lineo's policy and struggle to provide high-quality Linux, which can be applied in an actual product, while achieving customers' time-to-market has been right. Lineo will continue to provide customer-centric solutions for the ubiquitous age."
"Based on our strategy for the Entertainment Home Gateway market, we developed the AVM79R reference design featuring the Toshiba TMPR7901XB superscalar RISC processor, the Toshiba TC86C001FG companion chip and Vweb's VW2010 MPEG-1/-2/-4 codec," said Tetsuro Wada, business development and technical marketing director of the TX RISC business unit at TAEC. "We expect the entertainment home gateway to be the center of the home of the future where it will control various digital home appliances. Our new evaluation board enables potential customers and software developers to port and integrate state-of-the-art software technologies for various applications, including IP set-top-box, home gateway and personal video recorder. We're delighted to be working with Lineo on this reference design."
Mr Hisayuki Suzuki, executive vice president of VWEB Corporation said, "We are very pleased and excited to work with Toshiba, Lineo and multiple other companies to produce the AVM79 reference design. By combining the power of VWEB's MPEG-1, -2 and -4 codec, with transcoding and translating capability, Lineo's Embedded Linux and Toshiba's microprocessor, we have created a complete solution for media home gateway, IP-set-top boxes and video networking."
The TX RISC Business Unit of TAEC is collaborating with a number of software companies in the development of this reference design. Offering an embedded Linux operating system, tool chains and system integration, Lineo provides the basic infrastructure required to build the other software components. These companies include:
About the AVM79R Reference Design Box
| Host CPU |
TMPR7901XB-200: Toshiba superscalar 64-bit MIPS RISC
processor |
MPEG-2/-4
codec |
VW2010: VWEB Corp. full D1 MPEG-4 support, MPEG-2/
transcoding |
Companion
Chip |
TC86C001FG: Toshiba Universal Serial Bus (USB) host/device, Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) Ultra-DMA mode 4 interface and
Inter-IC bus interface |
Embedded
Storage |
Built-in hard disk drive and DVD drive |
| Interfaces |
Peripheral Controller Interconnect, USB 1.1 host/device, Ethernet Media Access Controller, S-Video (In/Out), Composite (In/Out), Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format, IDE (ATA66MB) and General Purpose input/output |
| Software |
MPEG streaming, personal video recorder, video on demand, Digital Radio Mondiale, Quality of Service, Home Network Protocol, Residential Gateway stacks, Voice over IP, etc. |
| Availability |
April 2003 |
| Pricing |
US$3,000.00 each |
About Lineo Solutions, Inc.
Lineo Solutions, Inc. is a Linux vendor that provides embedded solutions such as cross-development environments, software and hardware evaluation designs and professional services with the embedded Linux operating system as the core. Lineo's embedded solutions facilitate the development of embedded products that can connect to the Internet by OEMs and shorten the development cycle, thereby realizing a quicker time-to-market. For additional company and product information, please visit Lineo's website at
http://www.lineo.co.jp. For additional technical information regarding the AVM79R, please contact Akira Iwata, TAEC TX RISC Business Unit at
iwataa@taec.com.
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