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TUXIA Entertains with TASTE at Linux World

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iApplianceWeb
(08/29/01, 01:12:54 PM EDT)

Consumer multimedia devices now have another family member with the introduction of TUXIA's Internet media gateway and interactive TV reference design at the Linux World Expo. This TV reference design features the FOCUS Enhancements FS460 chip and technology from Intel and Sigma.

The reference design shows how developers can rapidly create new products that satisfy requirements for video quality, functionality, form factor, power dissipation, and cost. The reference design incorporates TASTE, the embedded Linux OS and middleware stack from TUXIA, including multimedia features such as alpha-blending and PIP support for the FS460 effects engine, Macromedia Flash, Real Player, Java, MP3, DVD Playback via the Sigma Designs EM8400 MPEG-2 decoder, and Nanozilla, its own HTML 4.0-based embedded Mozilla browser furnished with a full-featured user interface.

In this reference design, a low cost Intel Celeron and 8281x Northbridge ASIC combines with the FS460 and EM84xx to provide a high performance media gateway with modern Web browsing; simultaneous LAN services; audio and video streaming from DVD; antennae, cable, or satellite; gaming; and other home entertainment/management applications. The TUXIA software provides a low cost Linux software environment with a full-featured platform development tool, branded TSE for TUXIA Synthesis Environment, which delivers customizable modules for OEMs to integrate into finished systems.

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