Avnet Applied Computing Solutions, a division of global industrial distributor Avnet Inc., has begun supplying a customized, pre-installed version of TimeSys's TimeStorm Linux Development Kit (LDK) along with Motorola's MVME6100 development board based on a 1.3 GHz Motorola PowerPC processor. The kit targets embedded systems in military/aerospace, industrial automation, and medical imaging applications.

The Motorola MVME6100 SBC

Motorola claims its MVME6100 (pictured above) is the first product to take advantage of a radical new VMEbus-to-PCI-X bridge, using the VMEbus two-edge source synchronous transfer (2eSST) protocol for significantly faster VMEbus data transfer rates. Transferring more than 300MB/s on the VMEbus, (compared with VME64's typical 40MB/s transfer rate), the MVME6100 also preserves more than 20 years of VMEbus legacy by remaining compatible with previous generations of VMEbus products and protecting users' existing investment in VMEbus technology, Mot says.

Key MVME6100 features include:

• Motorola MPC7457 1.3 GHz PowerPC processor
• Tsi148 VMEbus interface chip with 2eSST capabilities for 320MB/s transfer rate across standard VMEbus
• 128-bit AltiVec coprocessor for vector processing
• Up to 1GB DDR ECC memory
• Two 64-bit PCI-X bus interfaces, one dedicated to 100 MHz PMC support and the other to the VMEbus bridge at 133 MHz
• Dual 64-bit, 33/66/100 MHz PMC-X expansion slot support
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

The TimeStorm MVME6100 LDK

The MVME6100 LDK boots from flash and includes a pre-installed 2.6-based Linux distribution featuring advanced real-time capabilities, including schedulable hard and soft interrupt handlers, priority inheritance mutexes, and a fully preemptible kernel, the companies say. The LDK also comes with TimeSys's Eclipse-based TimeStorm Linux Development Suite (LDS).

Features of the MVME6100 Linux Development Kit include:

• Pre-installed MVME6100-optimized Linux distribution boots from flash at board power-up
• Includes real-time capabilities such as schedulable hard and soft interrupt handlers, priority inheritance mutexes and a fully preemptible kernel
• Supports all external buses and interfaces, including kernel drivers for all on-board devices
• Provides royalty-free runtime for commercial deployment
• Includes GNU toolchains for development and debugging custom applications
• Includes graphical Eclipse-based TimeStorm Linux Development Suite (LDS) for development on Linux or Windows hosts

Availability

The TimeStorm MVME6100 Linux Development Kit is available now from Avnet Applied Computing Solutions.

“Avnet Applied Computing Solutions has tremendous market reach, long-standing relationships with embedded developers across key industries and a strong understanding of the needs of their customers,” said TimeSys CEO Larry Weidman. “Our new relationship with Avnet Applied Computing Solutions makes embedded Linux accessible to a much wider audience of OEMs worldwide and provides everything an embedded developer needs to get started on application development.”

 
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