ARM9-based platform gains OS and training support: News from iWave Systems Technologies

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iWave Systems now supports Linux and Win CE.NET on its Atmel ARM9 platform. The Indian based design house has wide spectrum of reference platforms based on Atmel/Sharp ARM9, Freescale Power PC, Intel Xscale etc to address the needs of educational institutions, embedded training institutes, R and D Institutes, IP service providers, ODMs and OEMs. ARM is the industry's leading provider of 32bit embedded RISC microprocessors with almost 75% of the market.

ARM offers a wide range of processor cores based on a common architecture and delivering high performance together with low power consumption and system cost.

The AT91RM9200 microcontroller offers a flexible configuration of on- and off-chip memories together with an extensive set of peripherals for control, communication and data storage purposes.

It is based on the ARM920T 200MIPS advanced 32bit RISC processor with 16Kbyte instruction and 16Kbyte data cache memories.

It features 16Kbyte of on-chip SRAM and 128Kbyte of ROM, together with an external bus interface with controllers for SDRAM and static memories including NAND Flash and Compact Flash.

The peripherals like USB host, USB device, serial, IRDA, Ethernet, CompactFlash, SD and keypad help the students to develop various applications and device drivers as a part of their academic projects.

It has support for both Linux 2.6.14 as well as WinCE.Net 5.0.

iWave has designed a customised training programme to address the needs of educational sector and corporate institutions, and offers free training for those who purchase the platform in application development.

The training is provided at its office in Bangalore, which helps the faculties and students to get exposed to the industrial environment.

It also provides training on hardware and software modules for corporates and colleges for a period of 5 to 7 days that will cover both the hardware and software aspect of the device at a low cost.

Each topic is self-contained.

That is, both hardware and software materials are included to make the topic complete.

The class consists of lectures and exercises.

The Atmel AT91RM9200 training course is designed for software, hardware, firmware engineers, and developers who want to build communication and networking applications.

System architects, project leaders, BSP designers, device driver developers, and test engineers, who want to understand device architecture are also encouraged to attend the class for an in-depth understanding of the silicon system.

Understanding of ARM architecture is helpful, not compulsory though.

Familiarity with C language especially data structure organisation is advantageous.

However, student's willingness and desire to learn is the most important factor.

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ARM9-based platform gains OS and training support

IWave Systems now supports Linux and Win CE.NET on its Atmel ARM9 platform.