Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Transmeta Corp. today announced the availability of the Crusoe TM5800 System Development Kit, which will enable design engineers to quickly develop new mobile and embedded computing platforms using the Crusoe processor.

The System Development Kit contains a functioning computer motherboard based on an 800MHz Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 microprocessor asor specifications, and other items needed to jump-start new product designs. The computer motherboard included in the kit uses an industry standard MicroATX form factor, and has all of the functions of a versatile PC system, including a 3D video graphics accelerator, audio, Ethernet, disk interfaces, three PCI slots, USB, and an infra-red IrDA interface. System memory is provided with standard slots for DDR SODIMM and SDRAM DIMM memory modules. The system is compatible with x86 computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows CE.net, Microsoft embedded Windows XP, and versions of the Linux operating system.

Kits may be purchased for $995.

 
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