Lund, Sweden — (press release) — Axis is now shiping the Axis Developer Board LX which is based on the new ETRAX 100LX system-on-chip. As a result of addition of an internal MMU, ETRAX 100LX based products are capable of running standard Linux kernels. A port of Linux kernel version 2.4 for Axis ETRAX 100LX will be available for download from the Axis developer website at the end of Q1 2001.

The ETRAX 100LX Network Device System-on-Chip is designed specifically for embedded Linux developers and features an on-chip 32-bit RISC CPU, cache and MMU, auto-sensing 10/100 full duplex Ethernet controller, SDRAM, Flash and other memory controllers, DMA driven ports: 2 synchronous and 4 asynchronous serial ports, 2 parallel ports, 2 USB ports, SCSI and EIDE/ATA-2 ports.

 
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