Freescale will showcase its embedded Linux products at the LinuxWorld trade show next week in San Francisco, it says, and at LinuxWorld Beijing the following week. The company's embedded Linux products include the CodeWarrior toolsuite, Linux-based hardware and software reference designs, and silicon supplied with Linux BSPs (board support packages).

LinuxWorld San Francisco

Freescale's LinuxWorld San Francisco demonstrations will include:

• A reference design for a Linux-based PowerPC digital entertainment center capable of playing DVDs, music CDs, video files (MPEG-2 and -4), broadcast TV, pictures, and games
• A reference design for a Linux-based PMP (portable media player) based on an i.MX21
• An MPEG4 multimedia codec demo based on the i.MX31, Freescale's newest mobile multimedia processor
• Freescale's CodeWarrior tool suites for Linux, which the company says allow customers developing industrial control and other embedded systems based on ColdFire and PowerPC chips to assimilate Linux into next-generation products

LinuxWorld Beijing

Freescale is a Platinum sponsor of LinuxWorld Beijing, set for Aug. 17-19. The company will share booth space with the the China Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion (CSIP) Center, a division of the Chinese government's Ministry of Information Industry (MII). Freescale partnered with CSIP in March of this year on a joint lab focused on solutions for the PowerPC architecture and Linux software.

Freescale's product demonstrations at LinuxWorld Beijing will involve partners Hopen Software, MontaVista Software, UDTech, and USI, and will include a streaming media server, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP) server, home media center, V2IP (video- and voice-over-IP) platform, automotive-grade Linux, and Linux development tools.

Sumit Sadana, senior VP of strategy and business development at Freescale, said, “Linux is a potent and growing force in embedded markets, and Freescale believes silicon suppliers must play a central role in facilitating professional-grade embedded Linux solutions.”

Freescale has recently established a closer working relationship with its tools division, formerly known as Metrowerks. For more about that transition, be sure to read this whitepaper from VDC.

 
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