7Chips announced the release of a new reference board for VoIP appliance designs. The “EVA” (Easy VOIP Appliance) board, which is based on the ATMEL AT75Cxxx family of processors, can form the basis of a wide range of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) device designs, including IP phones, VoIP/analog phone adapters, and VOIP/PSTN gateways, the company said.

In addition to the ATMEL processor, the board is equipped with two 10/100 Mbit Ethernet ports, 2 MB Flash memory, 4MB DRAM, a DAA, a SLIC, an LCD, a keypad, 2 RS232 serial ports, a JTAG debugging port and VoIP software codecs. A V.34 soft-modem is also available.

7Chips said the board runs uClinux as its operating system, along with open-source SIP-based VoIP software that supports G.723.1, G.729/A/B/C, and uLaw and aLaw vocoders.

7Chips (Paris, France) said it was founded by former members of the development team of Aplio S.A. According to 7Chips, Aplio developed the first consumer VoIP appliance product in 1998, and was the first consumer retail product to run embedded-Linux in 1999.

 
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