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LINEO ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH
YOKOGAWA DIGITAL COMPUTER CORP.
Develop Embedded Linux for DragonBall i.MX1 (ARM920T) "A-PLAT"
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TOKYO, June 23 - Lineo Solutions, Inc. (Lineo), a leading provider of embedded Linux solutions, today announced an alliance with Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation (YDC), a leading emulator company. According to the alliance, Lineo develops and markets embedded Linux development tool for YDC's "A-PLAT" evaluation board, while conducting joint marketing activities with them.
Under the agreement, Lineo develops uLinux Consumer Electronics Edition Board Support Package (uLinux CE Edition BSP) for DragonBall i.MX1(ARM920T) "A-PLAT" evaluation board. The uLinux CE Edition BSP for DragonBall i.MX1(ARM920T) "A-PLAT" will be snapped in Lineo uLinux ELITE (ELITE), Lineo's embedded Linux cross development environment to be released on July 14th, 2003. Both Lineo and YDC will demonstrate the ELITE and BSP in their booth at the Embedded Systems Expo & Conference in Tokyo (ESEC) to be held from July 9 to 11.
"I believe that the uLinux CE Edition BSP for A-PLAT, the first product brought about alliance with YDC, gives improved productivity and faster Time-to-Market to many embedded Linux system developers, who are desperately pursuing better performance and efficiency," said Yoshinobu (Yogi) Ushiyama, CEO, Lineo Solutions, Inc. "In alliance with YDC, Lineo intends to work toward developing solutions to drastically improve Host-to-Target development environment in embedded Linux field."
"Lineo Solutions' uLinux CE Edition BSP will certainly be a major step towards more satisfactory development environment for the customers in embedded businesses," said Tatsuo Kobayashi, President, Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation. "As more and more embedded devices begin to adopt Linux, the combination of our DragonBall i.MX1(ARM920T) A-PLAT evaluation board and incircuit emulator advicePLUS with uLinux CE Edition BSP will definitely be a powerful evaluation platform. YDC will strengthen the ties with Lineo and satisfy a wide variety of customers' demands."
Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation
Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation has widely dealt with design and development of microcomputer and its peripherals. Especially in incircuit emulator business, YDC has remarkable achievements and their products are employed at front-line development scenes of cellphones, information appliances, automobiles, industrial machineries, etc. YDC is highly commended both at home and abroad, having a branch office in Silicon Valley and distributors in Korea and Europe. In order to provide ideal development environment for leading-edge microcomputer technology, YDC addresses the strengthening of development capabilities by closely working with vendors of semiconductor, RTOC, and language processor.
Product Summary: Lineo uLinux ELITE & Board Support Package
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Embedded Linux Cross Integrated Development Environment |
| Development Host OS |
Linux Windows 2000 |
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| Hardware Requirements |
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| CPU |
Pentium4 (Recommended: 2GHz or above) |
| Memory |
64MB (Recommended: 128MB or above) |
| HDD |
2GB (Recommended: 10GB approx.) |
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| BSP |
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Kernel 2.4.20 or above |
| Package |
Basic packages in RPM and SRPM selected for embedded devices |
| Toolchain |
GNU C/C++, GNU ASM (gas), GNU linker (ld), Binary Utility, and Debugger (gdb, kgdb) |
| Device Support |
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| Display |
VGA/LCD |
| Input |
Button, Keyboard, Touchscreen |
| Network |
IPv4/IPv6 |
| Sound |
Stereo sound recording/reproducing/echo canceling |
| Flash Chip |
Drivers for NOR/NAND |
| Other |
Plug&Play devices (PCMCIA, CompactFlash, SD, MMC, USB etc.)Serial, All-purpose, Debug-purpose, SoC specific serial port, IrDA, Bluetooth, 802.11x |
| Option |
Software stack to link ELITE and YDC's advice PLUS (for Windows) |
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About Lineo Solutions, Inc.
Lineo Solutions, Inc. is a leading Linux vendor that provides embedded solutions with embedded Linux operating systems, as well as cross development tools and environments that include software/hardware reference designs, and professional services. Lineo's embedded solutions bring about OEM faster time-to-market by providing professionals practical and productive methods at the actual embedded product development scene.
Corporate HQ /Engineering Center:
1589-1 Kitaono, Shiojiri, Nagano399-0651, Japan
Tel: +81.263.56.2317
Fax: +81.263.56.2319
Tokyo Office (Sales & Marketing)
Honshiba Building 2F, 4-3-11 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN
Phone: +81 3 5730 0123
Fax: +81 3 5730 0125
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