San Jose, CA; Intel Developer Forum — (press release excerpt) — Arcom Control Systems announced that it will produce, support and market a Telematics Multimedia Development Platform using Intel XScale technology based PXA250 processors. Telematics is a rapidly growing market segment for products providing multimedia 'infotainment,' wireless voice, mobile commerce, and network communications solutions… within the automotive and transportation market segment.

Arcom's Telematics Multimedia Development Platform is powered by a PXA250 processor running from 200MHz to 400MHz, and includes 128MB SDRAM and 64MB of resident Intel StrataFlash. It also includes a 5.8-inch TFT color flat panel display and touchscreen, Ethernet port, CAN bus controller, USB, audio CODEC, and expansion via a Secure Digital memory card or a PCMCIA slot.

Arcom will manufacture and market the platforms as well as offering Board Support Packages (BSPs) for the leading embedded operating systems including embedded Linux. Arcom will also offer IBM's high performance embedded J9 Java virtual machine technology along with software components for data delivery (MQIsdp – MQ Integrator SCADA Device Protocol) and SMF (Service Management Framework), to manage and deploy distributed Java applications. These leading edge technologies provide real solutions for implementing driver information displays, infotainment systems, asset monitoring and vehicle service reports.

The Telematics Multimedia Development Platform will be available from Arcom by the end of Q4 2002.

 
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