Strategic Test has announced a hardware reference platform for the Freescale i.MX27 processor.

The Development Kit-5 can be supplied with both Linux 2.6 and Embedded Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0. The core of the kit, the TX27 SODIMM module, can be directly designed into products.

This module contains a 400MHz i.MX27, 64Mbyte mobile DDR-SDRAM (expandable to 128Mbyte), 128Mbyte NAND flash, 10/100 Ethernet MAC, USB 2.0 Host/OSG, LCD controller, MPEG4 H.263/H.264 hardware CODEC for D1 video, and a camera interface.

The TX27 and Development Kit-5 are the first Freescale processor-based products from Strategic, and there will be more released in 2008 and 2009.

More information: www.strategic-embedded.com