SBC gains hard-real-time OS support package

An Eurotech product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 19, 2005

A QNX Neutrino board support package is now available for the PXA255 ARM/XScale based Viper PC/104 form factor SBC.

Arcom and Quantum have launched a QNX Neutrino board support package (BSP) for the PXA255 ARM/XScale based Viper - the ultra-low-power embedded controller based on the industry standard PC/104 form factor (3.6 x 3.8in) board.

The QNX Neutrino 6.3 BSP includes drivers for the integrated PXA255 graphics controller, Ethernet port, all five serial ports, onboard 32Mbyte Flash memory, real time clock, 256Kbyte battery backed SRAM, audio codec, the PC/104 bus and Arcom's TSC1 analogue touchscreen controller.

The BSP is fully supported by Quantum's own team of software developers and is available directly from Quantum or Arcom.

Czeslaw Bil, Quantum's General Manager notes: "The Viper is perfect for applications in industrial control and even airborne communication systems - anywhere which requires extremely low power dissipation and a wide operating temperature range of -40 to +85C".

Glen Middleton, Managing Director of Arcom added: "Arcom's first ready-to-run development kit for QNX 4.25 was launched in 1999".

"Since then, Arcom has maintained the widest selection of ready-to-run development kits on the market including support for high performance 'hard' real-time operating systems such as QNX Neutrino".

The 400MHz Viper single board computer is fitted with 64Mbyte DRAM, 32Mbyte of Flash and 256Kbyte SRAM.

A development kit is available with a Viper ICE (industrial compact enclosure), the Viper-UPS (uninterruptible power supply), serial and Ethernet cable set and also an optional Q-VGA colour display and touchscreen.