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News Release from: MPC Data | Subject: MS7712SE01 development board and SH7712 Linux BSP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 July 2007
Package supports SuperH Linux
development
Linux board support package for the SH7712 SuperH MPU works with MS7712SE01 development platform to help engineers accelerate products to market.
Renesas Technology Europe Platinum Alliance Partner MPC Data has brought out a Linux board support package (BSP) for the popular SH7712 Renesas 32bit SuperH microprocessor The Linux BSP is targeted for the development platform MS7712SE01 that provides an excellent basis for engineers to design new products, shorten their development time and get products to market faster
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Linux BSP is based on the SH3-DSP Linux 2.6 OS kernel and includes drivers for key peripherals including Dual 10/100 Ethernet, serial ports, PCMCIA/ATA driver and three timer channels.
To assist development further, the BSP also contains a Filesystem, Busybox, a DHCP Client and NFS.
Phil Buckley, MPC Data's Linux Embedded Business Group Director, comments "Linux is becoming the strategic platform of choice for many customers and developers need a solid hardware and software platform to deliver innovative solutions".
"This SH7712 Linux BSP will give a great starting point".
Says Joachim Hupper, Renesas Technology's Consumer-Industrial Business Unit Marketing Manager: "The SH7712 offers double-ethernet functionality and the CPU performance to effectively handle the data traffic for our industrial customer base, for example for factory automation applications".
"The new BSP makes it easy and fast to embed the power of the SH7712 into such applications".
The MS7712SE01 development board and SH7712 Linux BSP are available now from MPC Data.
Renesas' SH7712 MPU is based on a modern 200MHz SH3-DSP CPU core with cache, XY-RAM, double-Ethernet with dedicated DMA support and a bridge, as well as several other peripherals and JTAG debug.
It is particularly suited to industrial, office automation and network applications such as factory automation gateways, network cameras, IP faxes, network printers, home gateway servers and security equipment.
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