Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:57:47 -0500
From: Stuart Adams <sja@brightstareng.com>
To: editor@lwn.net
Subject: Embedded Linux Toolkit for ipEngine-1 SBC

Embedded Linux Toolkit for ipEngine-1 SBC

Andover, Massachusetts, March 6, 1999 - Bright Star Engineering (BSE)
announced today the immediate availability of its embedded Linux
toolkit for the ipEngine-1, BSE's credit-card sized PowerPC-based
single-board computer.

The Linux kernel and applications that run on the ipEngine are the
same as those used in millions of desktop Linux installations and 
hence developers are able to take full advantage of the wide range of 
functionality and interoperability that comes with the Linux 
environment. Unlike traditional Linux installations which require a 
hard disk and hundreds of Mbytes of disk space, BSE's Embedded Linux 
configuration can fit the full kernel plus network utilities, the Apache 
Web server and a Java Virtual Machine into the ipEngine's on-board flash 
memory with room to spare.

The ipEngine-1 incorporates a PowerPC processor, 16 Mbytes of DRAM,
2 Mbytes of flash memory, Ethernet interface, an LCD display controller,
USB interface, Ethernet interface, 16,000 gate FPGA and switching power
supply onto a board about the size of a credit card.

Unlike traditional board-level products with fixed interfaces, the
ipEngine-1 is capable of adapting itself to the user's hardware 
requirements.  The external connection to the ipEngine hardware is via an
FPGA-based "virtual interface" which can be configured on the fly to adapt 
to the user's needs.  The FPGA can be configured to emulate a variety of 
bus architectures as well as to implement peripheral functions like UARTs, 
PWM control, memory emulation, data capture and synthesis, and interfaces 
to a variety of input devices.

More information is available on BSE's web site at:
 http://www.brightstareng.com/