Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) will ship in Q2 a platform for residential home gateway applications running embedded Linux. The platform targets clients for low-cost media gateways, IP set-top boxes, and video endpoints, and will be demonstrated at this week's Embedded Systems Conference.

The “WVM49RX” reference design platform will be based on a “TX System RISC” core from Toshiba — either the TMPR4925 or the 64-bit TMPR4926 — running at 200MHz. The cores include memory controller, PCI controller, serial peripheral interface, UART, timer, and AC97 Codec.

The platform also includes a TC86C001FG “GOKU-S” companion chip, supporting an I2C bus, USB host and device, and UDMA-66 IDE bus.

The platform was co-developed with Sigma Designs, and additionally includes Sigma Designs EM8485 MPEG-1/-2/-4 decoder chip, supporting MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoding.

The platform will include MontaVista Linux 3.0, a design kit with drivers, documentation, a development board, and demo software, according to Toshiba.

“Based on our overall strategy to offer complete platform solutions for focused segments, we co-developed the WVM49RX for the home residential gateway market,” said Shardul Kazi, vice president of the TX-RISC Business Unit at TAEC.

“We see a variety of new consumer product opportunities for this type of digital home gateway,” said Ken Lowe, vice president of strategic marketing at Sigma Designs.

Availability

The WVM49RX reference design is priced at $3,000 and expected in Q2. It is TAEC's third RX-RISC gateway reference design. More details are available from TAEC, an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America.

 
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