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News Release from: Gumstix | Subject: Goliath
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 July 2007
Expansion boards add cellular comms
The Goliath line of expansion boards adds an open source cellular communications platform to the gumstix embedded portfolio.
New from Gumstix, the Goliath line of expansion boards adds an open source cellular communications platform to the company's embedded portfolio The Goliath-vx board provides GPRS/Edge function, whereas the Goliath-GPS-vx board combines GPRS/Edge and GPS
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The netmicroSD-vx expansion board combines a microSD card slot with 10/100Mbit Ethernet while the netwifi-microSD-vx board combines 802.11b/g with 10/00Mbit Ethernet and a microSD card slot.
Each Goliath board attaches to a gumstix motherboard (verdex only) using a 60-pin connector and includes audio, LCD, touch screen, USB host, 3D accelerometer and battery management.
General availability is planned for late July 2007.
The Goliath boards are by far the largest gumstix products at 105.5 x 67.3mm, the same dimensions as the Samsung 4.3in LCD touch screens that Gumstix will also sell.
Goliath gives verdex motherboards full-speed USB access to the Siemens MC75 GPRS/Edge module, the u-blox NEO-4S GPS module, and one external USB device.
Roke Manor Research, wholly owned by Siemens, is one of the UK's leading innovative solutions providers as a contract R and D specialist with relevant experience in GPRS/Edge products.
Roke Product Design Consultant Ben Toner says: "We are continuously looking for off-the-shelf technology to give our customers the strongest benefits in cost and development schedule and have already successfully leveraged the verdex product line made by Gumstix".
"These new Goliath boards will give us many more advantages in our software radio, telemetry, video imaging and of course cellular communications solutions".
"The Goliath products expand our leadership in offering a wide range of mobile communications options to the open source development community", says W Gordon Kruberg, President and CEO of Gumstix.
"These boards provide a tiny, yet powerful, communications platform that utilises any combination of GPS, GSM voice, GPRS/Edge, 802.11 (b/g) and Bluetooth - all at a very low cost".
"The cellular data capabilities provided by Goliath make Gumstix technology even better for customers designing commercial solutions in fleet management, vehicle tracking, remote control systems, and remote data acquisition".
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