Bright Star Engineering commEngine

The Bright Star Engineering commEngine platform, based on the Intel StrongARM SA-1110 is supported by both eCos and RedBoot.

Supported devices

Device drivers are included for:

• Diagnostic (polled) serial I/O
• Interrupt-driven serial I/O
• Ethernet
• FLASH
• PCI
• Watchdog

Availability

Hardware

The commEngine can be ordered direct from Bright Star Engineering by e-mailing sales@brightstareng.com. Prices are listed here.

Software

Source code for both eCos and RedBoot is available publically from eCos releases 2.0 and onwards, as well as from the anonymous CVS repository.

Documentation

Specifications are available for the processor and platform and are available on-line from the manufacturer's web site.

Instructions for installing RedBoot on the commEngine can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide. Board specific instructions, including installation instructions can be found here within the User's Guide.

RedBoot support

Prebuilt binaries of RedBoot are available for download for both ROM and RAM startup. Some necessary support files may also be included. Consult the RedBoot documentation on how to use these binaries.