Armadeus systems is a French company producing small Linux - based computers and their corresponding BSP.

The latest systems (APF27) use a Freescale i.MX27 processor (based on ARM architecture

ARM architecture

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

) and offer from 32 to 256MB of High Speed DDR-RAM and 128 to 512MB of 16 bits NAND FLASH (non volatile storage).

On the APF27, the i.M27 processor is coupled to a Xilinx

Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. is a supplier of programmable logic devices. It is known for inventing the field programmable gate array and as the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model....

 Spartan3A FPGA (50k to 400k gates).

Armadeus systems devices use version 1.3.4 of U-Boot

Das U-Boot

Das U-Boot is an open source, primary boot loader used in embedded devices. It is available for a number of different computer architectures, including PPC, ARM, MIPS, AVR32, x86, 68k, Nios, and MicroBlaze.- Supported File Systems :...

, version 2.6.29 of the Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 kernel and Buildroot

UClibc

In computing, uClibc is a small C standard library intended for embedded Linux systems. uClibc was created to support uClinux, a version of Linux not requiring a memory management unit and thus suited for microcontrollers .The project lead is Erik Andersen. The other main contributor is Manuel...

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