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Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) and
Axentra are helping to make "anywhere, anytime" access for consumers a
reality by collaborating on a comprehensive reference platform for
residential gateways and home media servers. The Digital Home Center
platform combines HipServ software from Axentra, a leading provider of
personal digital content and services software platforms, and the
MPC8349E mITX reference board, containing a PowerPC(R) core, from
Freescale.
Freescale and Axentra are partnering on the Digital Home Center
platform to address the growing market for customer premises equipment
(CPE) with remote access capabilities and home-based content
management. This emerging class of CPE products makes it easy for
consumers to access digital content from networked equipment in any
room in the house -- or remotely from any location in the world from
one simple user interface.
According to iSuppli research, there are more than 45 million
installed home networks worldwide today, and this number is forecast
to exceed 120 million by 2009. More than 60 million of these home
networks will be media-enabled, fueling the demand for "anywhere,
anytime" access to content (photos, video, music, games, movies) in
the digital home.
Freescale's and Axentra's turnkey hardware/software reference
platform is designed for OEMs, ODMs and service providers who want to
develop digital home CPE products and bring them to market quickly and
at minimal cost. The resulting products will enable consumers to
connect all of their digital networked appliances and benefit from
unified content and services management capabilities from locations
around the world.
"The Digital Home Center reference platform targets a new breed of
home consumer: the digital content enthusiast who wants to access,
manage, back-up and share a wealth of files from any location, and
HipServ is designed to do that very well," said Lynelle McKay, vice
president and general manager of Freescale's Digital Systems Division.
"Many leading CPE manufacturers and service providers are anticipating
this remote-access and content-sharing trend and are seeking
leading-edge platform solutions like ours to streamline development of
digital home center products."
"HipServ is the first software platform that will unify the
content needs of users at home in a simple and easy experience," said
Marc Benglia, chief executive officer of Axentra. "From anywhere,
consumers can always access their content through HipServ and share it
securely. Freescale's PowerQUICC II Pro processor is a perfect
platform to deploy HipServ software because it provides the
cost-effective performance and connectivity required to manage digital
content in the home."
About Axentra's HipServ software
HipServ is a comprehensive digital home software platform offering
a simple unified user experience as well as a personal digital content
management. HipServ makes access to and sharing of any home-based
content simple and secure. In addition, HipServ easily detects any
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) compliant device in the home and adds
it to the HipServ platform, enabling simple, centralized content
management. Service providers and OEMs can integrate HipServ into
their existing portals and deploy next-generation services that allow
users to manage content from within the home or remotely. HipServ can
reside on any home-based CPE device, such as a residential gateway,
network-attached storage (NAS) home media server, set-top box or
personal computer. HipServ software clears the complexities of
networking and aggregating of content for ease of use and file
management flexibility.
Key HipServ software features include:
-- Remote access, sharing and publishing of home-based content
-- Unified operating environment and interface for central access
to any content
-- Auto back-up from home PC or media server to central storage
or remote storage
-- Media management and server (UPnP-AV)
-- Home surveillance capability via Internet camera
-- Remote desktop access
-- Easy management of photo, music and video files
About the MPC8349E mITX reference board
Freescale designed the MPC8349E mITX reference board to enable
developers to minimize hardware development and speed time to market.
Available in the 170mm x 170mm mini-ITX form factor, the compact
reference board makes it easy to design small-footprint digital home
systems. The platform ships with Linux 2.6.x with Samba on Flash.
Schematics, layout files and Gerber files are available online.
The Freescale reference board is based on the MPC8349E PowerQUICC
II Pro processor containing a PowerPC(R) core. In addition to the
high-performance e300 core operating at 667 MHz, the MPC8349E includes
advanced features, such as DDR memory, dual 32-bit/single 64-bit PCI
controllers, dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers, high-speed USB 2.0
controllers and an integrated security engine.
Key features of the MPC8349E mITX board include:
-- Robust memory subsystem
-- Four-port USB 2.0 interface
-- 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch
from Vitesse
-- On-board 4-port PCI serial advanced technology attachment
(SATA) controller
-- 32-bit PCI slot and a 32-bit MiniPCI slot
-- Two-port RS-232C interface
-- Power supply
-- SATA hard drive
Availability
Freescale's MPC8349E mITX reference board is available now. For
system design and pricing information, please contact your local
Freescale sales representative or an authorized Freescale distributor.
For more details, visit www.freescale.com/networking.
HipServ software is available now from Axentra. To learn more
about licensing HipServ software, visit www.axentra.com.
About Axentra
Axentra is a pioneer in the development of software platform for
the digital home and server software for the home and SOHO markets
with its award winning Net-Box technology. Axentra's technology offers
leading edge yet affordable and easy to manage all-in-one web, email
and file servers and Operating Environment software for PCs and Mac
along with OEM and SP solutions. Axentra's value proposition goes well
beyond state-of-the-art networking software; it is about giving tens
of millions of broadband Internet users total control over their
digital environment.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global
leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for
the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.
Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more
than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in
Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing
or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of
the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies
with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
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