Industrial computer acts as reference design

After designing display-enabled products for its customers for years, Techsol is now offering a standard, off-the-shelf computer with a colour LCD and touch panel.

After designing display-enabled products for its customers for years, Techsol is now offering a standard, off-the-shelf computer with a colour LCD and touch panel.

The SA2410 is an industrial grade computer powered by an ARM-9 Medallion CPU module.

"This computer provides a pile of features", said Brian Empey, CEO of Techsol.

"It's really a reference design for customers wanting to develop their own computers".

"But it has enough I/O, at a low-enough cost, to be useful for a production computer too".

"And it's also very useful on its own, without the LCD".

In fact, on that note, Techsol is planning to make the TPC-57 board the standard development kit, with the LCD/touch as an option.

Not surprisingly, the company has developed many products for its clients that use liquid crystal displays.

These products range from FDA approved medical devices to high-volume consumer gadgets.

But the company has not had a standard product with a display - until now.

"We're expecting these to fly off the shelves".

"Even the first hand-built prototypes for my engineers grew wings - when customers such as Philips in Europe and Research in Motion in Canada heard about this product, they insisted on getting copies even before the drivers were complete".

"The last proto ended up at a medical devices company in the USA, and my engineers had to wait for the first production units to complete the software driver development".

Speaking of software, the units ship with Linux (like all Techsol Medallion system products) pre-installed, with drivers.

The TPC-57 is available from stock, with the SA2410 ARM-9 Medallion CPU module powering it, with a choice of 32Mbyte SDRAM and 32Mbyte of Flash, or 64Mbyte of each (in addition to the 2Mbyte of NOR Flash for fault-tolerant boot-loaders).

Pricing starts under $500 each at quantities of 1000 pieces, including the colour display and accessories.

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