Micro-Platform for Home Gateways

Patriot Scientific CorporationGi-compatible home gateway server micro-platform has been introduced, a small-outline board designed as a plug-in for developing home gateways, hand-held Internet devices, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics devices.

Called the Ignite Micro-Platform, the product inlcudes a 32-bit microprocessor which is based on PTSC's ROSC architecture and executes Java as its native language. Actually a dual-processor, the core device incorporates both an instruction processing unit and an I/O processor, plus a DMA controller, interrupt controller and a versatile memory interface unit. The ROSC (Removed Operand Set Computer) architecture allows the use of 8-bit instructions and requires half the support memory of an equivalent RISC design.

The micro-platform comes pre-loaded with WindRiver's VxWorks real-time operating system and support package, Sun's Personal Java suite and its tools, and vxPresso which integrates their operation.

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