Orange County, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic today announced the release of RED-Kit, a hardware/software platform for embedded system developers. RED-Kit comes pre-loaded with all the necessary Linux software necessary to create either real-time or non real-time applications. RED-Kit is an ideal turnkey solution for prototype development as well as for evaluating REDSonic's real-time REDICE-Linux. Typical applications include Internet appliances, web servers, MP3 players, DHCP client/servers, routers, firewalls, gateways, and proxy Servers.

REDICE-Linux is ideal for mission and time critical applications and provides quality of service for embedded systems. It includes a high precision microsecond timer, a short preemption time kernel, powerful and predictable system schedulers, and mechanisms to provide task performance guarantees.

REDICE-Linux software features include:

• Anthony's Editor, a very small text editor that is easy to use
  
• DHCP client and server
  
• Tiny shell, which supports all standard Bourne shell commands
  
• Ability to issue commands to delay job execution and batch processing
  
• Small suite of UNIX utilities in a multi-call binary; it provides a pretty complete POSIX environment in a very small package
  
• Utilities for managing the second extended (ext2) file system
  
• Standard UNIX command-line FTP client
  
• The GNU database library for C
  
• Security wrapper for tcp daemons
  
• TELNET client and server
  
• Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL) and CGI for PERL
  
• Fast, small, and secure web server
  
• Reduced terminfo database
  
• Libraries to support JPEG and PNG image format files
  
• Audio MPEG player with support for layers 1, 2, and 3
  
• Tiny suite of utilities for handling logins at the console
  
• MicroBrowser and GTK/Embedded Windowing System, including:
  • JavaScript 1.1, JVM, HTML 3.2, HTTP 1.1, SSL 2.0 / 3.0
    
  • Macromedia Flash, GIF, JPEG, PNG, animated GIF, Image map
    
  • Cookies, bookmarks, URL saving and history
    
  • Frame and table support
    
  • Foreign language fonts
    
  • GTK 1.2 Embedded

The RED-Kit set-top box hardware specifications and features include:

• x86 Pentium Media GXM 233MHz CPU
  
• 32MB SDRAM
  
• 32MB M-Systems DiskOnChip Flash disk
  Wireless keyboard and mouse control
  
• Audio support
  
• 10BaseT Ethernet support
  
• Serial & parallel port

 
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