Reference board aids PowerQUICC III adoption

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team May 26, 2005

SDC Systems has announced plans for the release of Kozio's hardware test solution for the PowerQUICC III processor architecture.

SDC Systems has announced plans for the release of Kozio's hardware test solution for the PowerQUICC III processor architecture.

Kozio is currently working with Silicon Turnkey Express (STx) to support and create a software evaluation kit for STx's GP3 reference board and will continue to add support for additional reference boards from STx and other manufacturers.

Kozio develops turnkey software solutions that verify design and validate hardware for any embedded single-board computer systems for a variety of applications, including networking and communications technology.

"We are seeing strong demand for our products to support the latest Freescale processor technology, in the USA, Europe and elsewhere", notes Kozio President Joseph Skazinski.

"We're excited to round out our support of the leading network processors and our ability to quickly provide custom solutions to our customers that use these processors".

Kozio delivers a complete diagnostics and functional test solution for hardware board bring-up, manufacturing test and production-ready power-on self-test through its products: kDiagnostics for system-level diagnostics of embedded designs; kMfgTest for automated embedded manufacturing and functional test; and kPOST for off-the-shelf power-on self-test (POST).

These solutions from Kozio provide more complete testing throughout the development process, resulting in fewer spins in the prototype stages and fewer defects in the final product.

Boards move from design through prototyping and manufacturing to release in less time, with less cost and fewer defects.

STx's GP3 ODM reference board for Freescale PowerQUICC III features premium blade/SBC supporting the Freescale MPC8560 and MPC8555 and MPC8541 processors, along with interfaces for RapidIO, fibre optic gigabit Ethernet modules, PCI-104, and up to 4Gbyte of RAM.

The GP3 is a powerful single-board computer/router designed as both a stand-alone product, as well as a reference board and for custom integration purposes.