American Arium has introduced a Linux development kit based on Cogent's recently introduced CSB637 single-board computer and Arium's own hardware-assisted debugger. The LC-500C637 kit targets developers of low power, high-performance devices such as an intelligent front panels, networked building controllers, medical monitors, or industrial Ethernet-to-machine interfaces, according to Arium.

The new development kit includes the Cogent SBC, Linux, a JTAG emulator and GNU toolchain, providing a “feature-rich, validated software and hardware for a positive initial out-of-box experience on a Linux platform, for fast and simple installation and configuration for system bring-up in a matter of hours,” said Jeff Acampora, Arium's Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

The Cogent CSB637 SBC is based on an Atmel AT91RM9200 processor running embedded Linux. The processor, in turn, is based on a low-power 184 MHz ARM 920T core and contains a 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet interface, dual SDIO, 4 UARTS, SSI, SPI, and CompactFlash Interfaces. The board has a small 1.75 x 2.5 x 0.355-inch form-factor and contains 64 MB of SDRAM, 8 MB of flash memory, USB, and a 640 x 480-pixel LCD/CRT/TV controller.

The toolset in the development kit provides full symbolic, source-level debugging of both the Linux kernel and embedded applications in what Acampora called an “elegant and intuitive GUI environment,” and he claimed that the toolkit is unique in providing not just initial target debug but debug of relocatable and dynamically loaded Linux kernel modules as well. It allows developers to step from application code into kernel calls and back to application code again, he noted, “all with hardware-assisted debug.”

The Arium development kit is priced at $4,800 with power supplies, cables, and documentation. It is available at a special introductory price of $3,995 through April 15, 2005.

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