VULCAN Development Kit for embedded Linux - a complete ready-to-run platform for your IXP425 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

The VULCAN Development Kit for Embedded Linux features a compact implementation of the GNU/Linux operating system based on the proven 2.6 kernel. This has been optimised 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 gives you an incredible range of functions to enable you to create low power solutions for secure wired/wireless remote terminal units, industrial network gateways and data acquisition systems. The Development Kit includes the low power 533MHz IXP425 based VULCAN PC104 single board computer fitted with 64Mbytes of DRAM, 16Mbytes of AMD MirrorBit Flash and 256Kbytes of SRAM. The board is fitted inside a low cost rugged industrial compact enclosure (VULCAN ICE) with breakout cables and tamper detect switch. The VULCAN ICE has sufficient space to fit one PC/104 expansion module or an embedded modem. The kit also includes an AC PSU, cables to connect to your host system, and a comprehensive information/software CD.

Arcom uses RedBoot as a simple, fast, reliable mechanism for initialising the VULCAN and loading the embedded Linux image from the onboard Flash. RedBoot also allows you to download and re-programme the VULCAN with a recompiled Linux operating system image. Arcom creates and supports the embedded Linux distribution using an experienced in-house development team – that means you get total product support directly from Arcom.

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, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks. OpenSSH can also provide a variety of secure tunneling capabilities and authentication methods.

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.