Product Development Platforms
Design your product on top of the Missing Link Electronics "Soft" Hardware platform. Missing Link Electronics provides you with all things necessary to move from design to production.
A project-based license model gives our customers full control over cost-efficient manufacturing at partners of your choice. Jumpstart your next embedded system design using a pre-validated platform and save time and effort.
Currently, we offer multiple development platforms for different processing devices and different Open Source software stacks, including GNU/Linux and Android.
Please contact us here so we can provide you with an evaluation platform!
Android Development Platform
Compared to old static user interfaces, Android follows a modern context-based human-machine-interface (HMI) and also enables to operate "your own Android market" to keep pace with innovation. Our Android-based Development Platform allows you to take Android beyond a smartphone, better and faster!
Our patent pending mediator technology allows you to interface a consumer Android system with safety-critical real-time automotive, aerospace or industrial systems.
For example, our Android-based Open In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) development platform saves time-to-market in the development of multi-media and navigation systems, specialized for the needs of small OEMs. Please follow this link for a product brief of our Open IVI Development Platform.
Embedded "Soft" Hardware Platform
Our pre-validated "Soft" Hardware Platform combines hardware and software and reduces R&D costs and time-to-market. For application-specific Automotive, Industrial, Scientific, Medical embedded systems this is a fast-path from proof-of-concept to prototype to production.
All systems come with a full GNU/Linux software stack pre-installed and tested and provide industrial PC connectivity (USB, SATA, Bluetooth, DVI, Audio, SPI, IIC, CAN, LVDS, GPIO, ADC, DAC) plus secure TCP/IP networking over Ethernet, WiFi, GSM, or UMTS.
Most functionality is integrated into one single configurable System-on-Chip. The result is a compact, extensible platform: I/O connectivity and digital data processing can be configured to adapt to different requirements for different applications -- without any special expertise in the underlying FPGA technology.
Software development follows defacto standards based on Open Source cross-compilers. A powerful MLE Linux distribution build environment automates application software assembly for many target architectures.
Platform Components
Depending on the use model, as a Rapid Prototyping System (RPS), as an Application Specific Standard System (ASSS), or as a Product Development Platform (PDP), Missing Link Electronics delivers the following platform components:
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PDP |
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Distribution Builder
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MLE customized GNU-based cross-compilation and Debian-style Linux package management |
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Application SW
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Linux root filesystem for USB memory stick, microSD, NFS with over 500 packages including filesystems (EXT2, EXT3, JFFS2, XFS, CRAMFS), networking (TCP/IP, SSH, SSL, IPSec, NFS, VLAN, WLAN), graphics (X11, TWM, matchbox), misc. tools and scripting languages, GNU compiler tool chain, delivered in compiled code and source code |
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Operating System
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ELF loader, U-Boot, Linux vanilla kernel 2.6.x (Xenomai Real-Time extensions optional) plus MLE RPS extensions and board support package (ALSA Audio, TFT and DVI drivers, Ethernet, USB, CAN, MTD, GPIO drivers), in source code and as uImage |
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System-on-Chip
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Design reference files for PowerPC 405, or PowerPC 440, or Altera NIOS II, or Xilinx MicroBlaze v7 based SoC with DDR and Flash memory controllers, PLB / OPB / OpenCores wrappers, plus custom peripherals |
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FPGA Device
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Altera Cyclone III, or Altera Cyclone IV, or Altera Stratix III, or Altera Stratix IV, or Xilinx Spartan-6, or Xilinx Virtex-4, or Xilinx Virtex-5, or Xilinx Virtex-6 |
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I/O connectivity
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RPS I/O Connectivity plus optional SATA, WiFi, Bluetooth, 6x CAN, LIN, Touchscreen TFT, and more |
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Mainboard
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Design reference files for DIN size MLE-HUA1 board, or derivative |
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Appliance
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Design reference files for custom faceplates |
