Arabella Software, a specialist in turnkey Linux support for Freescale's PowerQUICC family of processors, has announced support for Embedded Planet's EP885 and EP8248 single-board computers (SBCs), which are based on the latest PowerQUICC offerings equipped with security engines. These are the PowerQUICC 880/855 and 8248, respectively, for the PC/104 format EP885 SBC (shown at left) and the EP8248 (shown below), a PCI form-factor SBC.

(Click for larger image of the EP855 PC/104 SBC)

Arabella Linux, based on the popular Debian Linux distribution, includes a complete development environment and comes with a companion Linux reference design. The package provides everything needed to download, run, and begin working on Linux applications optimized to run on the Embedded Planet boards, including the U-Boot bootloader, a fully functional Linux system, and host development tools.

Arabella claims to be the only commercial Linux provider offering high-performance Linux Native IPsec, optimized, according to the company, to “provide performance on par with high-end commercial IPsec packages at a fraction of the cost.”

According to Matt Hoover, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Embedded Planet, “The combination of IPsec software in Arabella Linux with processor-based hardware encryption is a great performance enhancement.”

 
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