Medallion goes wireless

Technical Solutions has demonstrated a novel wireless terminal to selected OEMs.

Technical Solutions has demonstrated a novel wireless terminal to selected OEMs.

Based on a desktop development kit (featuring an HY7201 Medallion CPU module) and a LinkSys USB to WiFi dongle, customers can deploy fixed or portable terminals free of data cabling.

Techsol has married the required technologies onto the Medallion platform in order to simplify the adoption of wireless technology.

The system has been demonstrated both as an X-Windows terminal and as a VNC client.

In fact, it can run multiple applications simultaneously using a mixture of these technologies, in addition to native applications running on Linux 2.4.19 with X-Windows and GTK+ support.

The development kit, priced at only US $1000 with premium support, comes with Linux 2.4.19 pre-installed (built with GCC 2.95.3) as well as a full toolchain for applications based on GCC 3.2.1.

"Whether your application is office terminals, thin-clients for schools, or simply consumer web terminals, we have all the technologies to do the job", says Brian Empey, PEng, founder and CEO of Techsol.

"In addition, we can design, customise, and manufacture your product to the strictest quality standards.

Techsol is one of the few companies who can take your product from concept to production, using open-source tools and applications.

Plus, we do it quickly and efficiently with the experience of many industrial, medical, and consumer products behind us".

"Embedded engineering is the same all over the world.

Engineers face the same challenges of too much to do, and not enough time or money to do it with.

Techsol's Medallion CPU modules address this issue and provide a solution that extends into the production stages of a product, not just the "proof-of-concept" stage like most SBCs.

We want our technology to be as accessible to engineers in New Zealand as it is in California.

It's a challenge, but we're doing what we can".

Techsol's Medallion system is unique in the embedded computer world.

Over time, the Medallion single-board computer product line will encompass dozens of CPUs.

However, the pinout and form-factor will remain the same.

There will be one Medallion module that is best matched to any given application.

By designing with the Medallion system, users are effectively out-sourcing their CPU design and Linux porting with no up-front NRE fees.

That lets design teams concentrate on the hardware and software portions of their product that their customers see.

The result is that they can create a higher-quality product in a fraction of the time (and cost) of designing everything yourself from scratch.

Plus, the interchangeable modules extend product life-cycle times.

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