Embest announces Devkit270 development kit
Embest
Devkit270 development kit
Embest has announced the availability of the Devkit270 development kit based on the Marvell Xscale 520MHz PXA270 ARM processor.
The Devkit270 main board is highly integrated with 1Gbyte of MDOC flash and 128Mbyte of SDRAM as well as a MiniSD card slot supporting up to 2GB capacity.
It features standard Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and a 3,500 mAH rechargeable lithium battery.
A barcode-scanner interface and RFID antenna interface are also available.
The board exposes many other hardware interfaces including RS232 serial port, USB Host/Device, LCD/TSP and Jtag.
It mainly targets the development of PDA, handheld PC, tablet PC and smart phones.
The Devkit270 main board is able to support WinCE OS.
The software package includes WinCE6.0 BSP and drivers, of which many are in source code.
Embest also provides user-manual, schematic-drawing and datasheet documents to help customers better understand the board.
The Embest Devkit270 development kit is designed specially for evaluating the Devkit270 main board.
It is housed in a case and preloaded with WinCE6.0 OS for testing.
Users can display it using a Data Image 7in TFT LCD and touch-screen.
It includes a tiny RFID antenna board inside as well as an eight-pin Jtag connector for reserved extension.
The front panel of the case is made of aluminium alloy while the rear panel is designed using engineering plastic.
The kit has ebook functions, supporting Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, pdf and txt for viewing documents.
It also has a synchronising function, which enables data synchronisation between a PC and the kit.
It would also be a media player that is capable of playing audio or video files like MP3 or MP4.
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