Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320DSC24
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 September 2001
Embedded Linux boosts
imaging DSP solution
Ingenient Technologies and RidgeRun have made available an embedded Linux operating system for TI's imaging DSP solution
Ingenient Technologies and RidgeRun have made available an Embedded Linux operating system for TI's imaging DSP solution, enabling faster and easier development of streaming video multimedia devices. RidgeRun will provide its DSPLinux operating system and Board Support Package (BSP) for the innovative TI imaging platform, and Ingenient will integrate its MPEG-4 technology, a premier streaming media standard.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 September 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new offering is the first of its kind, enabling developers of next generation multimedia portable appliances, such as digital cameras, digital video camcorders, portable media players and Webpads, to take advantage of the flexibility and connectivity of the DSPLinux platform with Ingenient's MPEG-4 streaming media technology.
The Ingenient solution harnesses the image processing strengths of TI's C54x-based TMS320DSC24, a low-power, programmable DSP imaging platform, while DSPLinux offers developers an easy way to access MPEG-4 and other multimedia algorithms running on the DSP from the Linux kernel.
The TI DSC24 demonstration platform, featuring the RidgeRun BSP, includes the DSPLinux software development kit (SDK), Linux OS, drivers and crossdevelopment tools.
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The fully supported environment includes the full suite of embedded Linux development tools - the GNU compiler, linker, assembler and debugger tool chain, as well as the powerful Appliance Simulator, which allows developers to develop and test their embedded software in a workstation environment and is ideal for tasks such as user-interface development.
'The world of streaming media is progressing rapidly towards an Internet infrastructure that supports high-bandwidth, on-demand multimedia - anytime, anywhere', said RidgeRun CTO Phil Verghese.
'Thanks to TI and Ingenient, we're able to fulfill a need in the market to run Linux on this platform enabling innovative software solutions for the next generation of multimedia devices'.
The TI DSC24 is available today and shipping in production devices.
Pricing for the DSC24 in quantities of 100,000 units or more is less than $25.
The next generation DSC24-based demo platform using the Linux OS and MPEG-4 technology is expected to be available in early 4Q 2001.
The DSPLinux BSP for the TI DSC24 can be ordered from RidgeRun at [email protected].
Ingenient's MPEG-4 algorithm can be ordered at [email protected].
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