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June 26, 2001 |
KADAK and VAutomation Announce AMX RTOS Support
for the VAutomation iCon186 TotalCore
and Turbo186/86 Microprocessor Cores
VANCOUVER, CANADA - June 26, 2001 -- KADAK Products Ltd. and
VAutomation, Inc. announced today that KADAK's
AMXTM RTOS supports the
VAutomation iCon186TM
TotalCoreTM and the
Turbo186TM and
Turbo86TM microprocessor cores
on the IPSTM Evaluation Board.
The AMX real-time multitasking kernel (RTOS) is used in time
critical medical, telecommunication, data acquisition,
industrial control, robotics and aerospace applications.
AMX will also be found at the heart of 80x86 SoC designs
such as the Pixelworks PW364 Image Processor, the first
integrated flat panel display controller contained
on a single chip, which uses a VAutomation microprocessor core.
Since 1983, AMX 86 has been widely used with 80x86/88 and
compatible processors. Now, AMX supports the 24-bit (16 Mbyte)
addressing capability of VAutomation's Turbo186/86 cores using the
Paradigm Systems Inc. C/C++ software development tools.
Board support for VAutomation's iCon186 TotalCore and
IPS Evaluation Board is included with AMX 86.
VAutomation's Turbo86 and Turbo186 microprocessor cores provide
three times the speed and sixteen times the address space
provided by standard implementations of the 8086 and 80186.
These cores are especially suitable for SoC designs that
require a high-performance 16-bit processor with a large
address space and proven development tools.
"Many new applications, as well as evolving 8-bit and
16-bit products, benefit from the increased performance
and address space of the Turbo86 and Turbo186 plus the
integrated connectivity provided by iCon186," notes
Brian Machesney, VAutomation's director of marketing.
"Turbo86 and Turbo186 address the needs of designers who
have a 16-bit problem, but are otherwise forced to incur
the expense and delay of moving to a 32-bit core."
Founded in 1978, KADAK Products Ltd. provides software developers
with the very best foundation for their embedded system products.
KADAK's AMX RTOS, KwikNet®
TCP/IP Stack and KwikPegTM GUI
are ready for use with a wide range of software development tools for
PowerPC®, 68K,
ColdFire®, 80x86, MIPS,
ARM, Thumb and StrongARM®
processors. For more information about KADAK,
please visit www.kadak.com.
VAutomation has supplied technology-independent microprocessor
and connectivity peripheral IP cores since 1994. In addition to
serial communication controllers for USB, Ethernet and Controller
Area Network (CAN), development solutions for turbocharged 8086,
80186 and the V8-uRISC 8-bit CPU are also available.
Headquartered in Nashua, NH, VAutomation is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of ARC International plc (LSE: ARK), a leading designer
and developer of customizable high-performance microprocessors and
related intellectual property solutions.
For more information about VAutomation,
please visit www.vautomation.com.
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AMX in the stylized form and KwikNet are registered trademarks of
KADAK Products Ltd.
AMX, KwikPeg and KwikLook are trademarks of KADAK Products Ltd.
Turbo86, Turbo186, iCon186, IPS and TotalCore
are trademarks of Vautomation, Inc.
Motorola and ColdFire are registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc.
PowerPC and the PowerPC logo are trademarks of
International Business Machines Corporation.
All other trademarked names are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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