[Updated Nov. 13, 2001] Las Vegas, NV; COMDEX — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA and its partners are demonstrating a number of Embedded Linux based products including set-top boxes, interactive media gateways, thin clients, and a PDA solution at COMDEX this week. TUXIA's TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology) embedded Linux is an open source software platform which targets advanced… set-top boxes and other digital Information appliances.

“Unlike the other proprietary options on the market today, TASTE offers customers a more flexible and modular alternative based on an open-source core software platform” says TUXIA Sr. VP Chad Gibbons.

Thin Client products being demonstrated include offerings from Allwell, MSI, Epox, ASUSTeK, and Samurai, as well as a reference design from ST Microelectronics. Also on display are iTVs / Media Gateway solutions from Intel, National Semiconductor, and VIA Technologies.

TUXIA's Nanozilla embedded browser is being shown running on the Compaq iPAQ. This TUXIA implementation TASTE embedded Linux for PDAs is known as VIPER. In addition to a highly customizable Personal Information Manager (PIM) Suiterange of applications, VIPER supports comprehensive synchronization capabilities and networking capabilities including Wireless LAN, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) support for access to a Windows Desktop. There is extensive Enhanced Multimedia support including MPEG and MP3 and support for Compact flash or IBM's micro drive.

Another demo is based on a broadband set-top box (the MVP3-H) made by Epox. The demo shows how TUXIA's embedded Linux tools can be integrated with Tvia's CyberPro streaming media gateway processor family to develop set-top boxes for enhanced interactive television capabilities. The technologies and tools can be used to develop other interactive, Internet-based devices such as digital televisions and streaming media on demand applications.

The combination of an embedded Linux operating system, an embedded Mozilla browser, a JVM, and a middleware application layer encapsulates a top-to-bottom client-side software reference design built on an open-source foundation. TASTE supports a wide range of content and authoring types including HTML 4.0, Java, Macromedia Flash, RTSP, MPEG streams, MP3, XPCOM, XUL and JavaScript. Our software is also MHP compliant using the DVB-MHP reference implementation from the IRT.

 
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