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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: MPC5200 mobileGT reference platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 January 2006
Platform speeds digital media player
development
Freescale Semiconductor and SimpleDevices have teamed up to deliver an innovative mobileGT reference platform for advanced automotive digital media player development.
Freescale Semiconductor and SimpleDevices, a subsidiary of Universal Electronics, have teamed up to deliver an innovative mobileGT reference platform for advanced automotive digital media player development The technology bundle combines Freescale's MPC5200 platform based on the PowerPC core and SimpleDevices' award-winning SimpleWare Auto embedded software
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Freescale's leadership in the processor market, combined with SimpleDevices' feature-rich software, allows our customers to introduce a wide range of best-in-class digital media music/photo/video solutions for the automotive market", said Paul Arling, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Universal Electronics.
"Our relationship with Freescale represents our commitment to introduce complete and highly integrated hardware and software platforms to help our customers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs) and tier-1 suppliers get to market fast".
The collaborative solution is designed to shorten development cycles and accelerate time to market for solutions developed around the MPC5200 embedded processor, based on the PowerPC architecture.
The mobileGT reference platform with the SimpleWare Auto embedded software is complete with a wide variety of I/O and the hardware necessary to develop scalable software solutions for advanced digital media players.
"The convergence of digital media between the car and home is occurring rapidly", said Anand Ramamoorthy, General Manager of Freescale's Infotainment, Multimedia and Telematics Division.
"Teaming with Universal Electronics extends the mobileGT platform's advanced digital media capabilities to allow simultaneous playing/ripping of music in the car, support for multiple portable media players and network synchronisation of the home PC with the car".
Target applications include digital music/photo/video source units, digital media players integrated with GPS navigation systems and automatic, intelligent synchronisation of media between automotive units and home PCs via USB and wireless IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi connections.
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