San Francisco, CA; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA, Inc. demonstrated a Linux-based Internet media gateway and interactive TV reference design featuring FOCUS Enhancements, Inc.' FS460 chip and technology from Intel and Sigma Designs at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco. The reference design shows how developers can rapidly create new products that satisfy requirements for video quality, functionality, form factor, power dissipation, and cost.

The reference design incorporates TUXIA's TASTE embedded Linux OS and middleware stack. The software integrates advanced multimedia features on an embedded Linux OS such as alpha-blending and PIP support for the FS460 effects engine, Macromedia Flash, Real Player, Java, MP3, DVD Playback via the Sigma Designs EM8400 MPEG-2 decoder, and Nanozilla, TUXIA's HTML 4.0-based embedded Mozilla browser.

In this reference design, a low cost Intel Celeron and 8281x Northbridge ASIC combines with the FS460 and EM84xx and provides a high performance media gateway that provides modern web browsing, simultaneous LAN services, audio and video streaming from DVD, antennae, cable, or satellite, gaming, and other home entertainment/management applications.

The TUXIA software provides a complete low cost Linux software environment along with a full-featured platform development tool called “TSE” (TUXIA Synthesis Environment), which delivers easily customizable modules for OEMs to integrate into finished systems.

 
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