Moblin™ Zone

Taipei, Taiwan, 2009 –Advantech, the global leading ePlatform service provider, has announced their decision to support the Moblin™ Operating System. The open-source Linux-based OS will help Advantech offer complete software solutions and new OS options to meet customer demands. As an important partner of Intel, Advantech will help develop Moblin™ solutions around the Intel® Atom™ platform. After Moblin v2 beta was released, Advantech successfully provided ready software solutions including their software API with fast boot function.

Advantech Software Solutions

Faster boot-up speeds are a big demand from many manufacturers and Advantech has focused on a Fast boot function for many years. BIOS boot speeds have been enhanced a lot, and boot times can be reduced from anything up to mins, to 15 seconds* with a special BIOS enhancement and optimized Moblin™ OS. Now, new products can launch applications much quicker and service user better.

Advantech provides a unique software API to enable hardware device control. Functions such as Hardware Monitor, Watchdog, GPIO, and SMBus functions are ready for Intel® Atom™ based products. Now, developers are able to design their embedded devices more easily and spend more time on application development.

* The test environment is based on ATOM N270 platform with 1GB RAM and CF card 4GB.

Embedded Software Services

1. Embedded OS Services: Complete OS and device driver support
2. Embedded BIOS Services: Provides highly modularized BIOS cores
3. Software API for Application Development: 5 major modules: Power Saving, Monitoring, Hotkey, Video Brightness, and Security

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Abstract

Advantech Co., Ltd. (TAIEX: 2395) –Founded in 1983, Advantech delivers visionary and trustworthy industrial computing solutions that empower businesses. We cooperate closely with solution partners to provide complete solutions for a wide array of applications in diverse industries, offering products and solutions in three business categories: Embedded ePlatform, eServices & Applied Computing, and Industrial Automation groups. With more than 3,400 dedicated employees, Advantech operates an extensive support, sales and marketing network in 18 countries and 39 major cities to deliver fast time-to-market services to our worldwide customers. Advantech is a Premier Member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, a community of embedded and communications developers and solution providers.  (Corporate Website: www.advantech.com)

About Mobin™ v2

Moblin v2 is an optimized open source Linux software stack and technology framework that delivers a visually rich internet and media experience on Intel Atom processor-based devices including Mobile Internet Devices (MID), netbooks/nettops, in-vehicle infotainment, and embedded systems.

– Moblin v2 combines simplicity and state-of-art graphics to deliver an outstanding 3D visual user experience.

– Moblin v2 has optimized form factor performance such as power management to extend battery life and fast boot that dramatically improves boot time.

– Moblin v2 provides flexibility through a comprehensive software ecosystem.

– Moblin v2 reduces foot print and memory requirements to enable lower Bill of Materials (BOM) cost and smaller form factors.