VIPER Development Kit for embedded Linux - a complete ready-to-run platform for your PXA255 XScale application development.

This Development Kit offers four unbeatable value propositions:

• Embedded Linux is already installed, you just
  download your application
• It saves months of engineering development effort
• It provides all the hardware, and free support at an 
  amazingly low price 
• You have a production-ready platform for rapid OEM 
  product integration

NOW - with real-time Linux demonstration software...

The VIPER Development Kit for embedded Linux (with optional J2ME Java technology) features a compact implementation of the GNU/Linux operating system based on the 2.6 Linux kernel release. This has been optimized for use on Arcom hardware platforms and is pre-loaded and configured into the embedded Flash. This offers an embedded version of Linux with a proven background, combined with a high reliability journaling Flash File system.

The Development Kit offers you an incredible range of features to enable you to create low power solutions for wired/wireless information terminals, instrumentation controllers, data acquisition systems and communication products. The Development Kit includes the low power 400MHz VIPER PC/104 single board computer fitted with 64Mbytes of DRAM, 32Mbytes of Intel StrataFlash and 256Kbytes of SRAM. The board is fitted inside a rugged industrial compact enclosure (VIPER ICE) and includes a battery backed uninterruptible power supply (VIPER-UPS), an external AC PSU, optional Q-VGA flat panel TFT screen and analogue touchscreen, cables to connect to your host system, and a comprehensive information/software CD.

The demand for high speed wireless connectivity within embedded OEM applications continues to grow at an impressive rate. To meet this demand, the embedded Linux image used on the VIPER now includes support for IEEE 802.11b CompactFlash cards based on the PRISM chipset (with the ability to define the 128-bit WEP keys using a configuration file).

Arcom uses RedBoot as a simple, fast, reliable mechanism for initialising the VIPER and loading the embedded Linux image into the onboard Flash. Arcom’s team of experienced in-house developers is available to provide free support as you integrate your own application software.

The Development Kit now includes an impressive technology demonstration of real-time Linux provided by FSMLabs Inc. The RTLinuxPro building block is a validated, hard real-time, POSIX operating system that runs embedded Linux as an application platform. The RTCore real-time kernel provides consistently low interrupt latency and scheduling jitter (measured as 45µs on a 400MHz VIPER).

Arcom recognises that Linux is used extensively in deeply embedded solutions and that secure communications is an important part of any application involved in control and monitoring functions. Many users of telnet, rlogin and ftp may not realise that password information is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted. Arcom uses OpenSSH to encrypt all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping and other network-level attacks.

The Development Kit can also be used with Java technology (J2ME) implemented with the IBM J9 JVM. Using the WebSphere Studio Device Developer (WSDD) IDE tools for embedded Java you can create powerful Java applications with rich communication and device management features. Arcom can also provide drivers to communicate with a WebSphere MQ Integrator information broker using MQTT (telemetry transport).
Click here, to find out more about the IBM development tools and to download evaluation software.
Click here to download the J2ME installation, configuration and help files for the VIPER.

Design Services
If you need to optimise the operating system image, Arcom offers the technical expertise of a dedicated embedded Linux development team to work with you, either to enhance the features of the operating system or reduce the footprint to save storage space. Arcom has been offering OEM embedded Linux solutions since 1999 and has worked with many customers to develop and integrate new drivers and achieve the very best from embedded Linux and embedded Java technology.