Datalight ROM-DOS, BIOS and FlashFX selected for Arcom's Rugged New PC/104 Single Board Computer.ARLINGTON, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1999--Datalight, a provider of embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. software, announced today that single board computer manufacturer; Arcom Control Systems will use a suite of Datalight embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. products in their rugged new AIM104-386EX single board computer. These will include: ROM-DOS(tm), DL-BIOS and FlashFX(tm). Fully licensed and pre-installed in flash-memory, Datalight's ROM-DOS 6.22 is a low-cost `workalike' operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. of MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. 6.22. "ROM-DOS has an extremely small memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold in comparison to MS-DOS; not to mention a high level of compatibility." said Andrew Poliak, Datalight Business Development Manager. Poliak continued, "These features, are particularly useful in embedded applications." Arcom's new board will also take advantage of Datalight's full-featured BIOS; an easily ported, complete development environment. Datalight's BIOS delivers support for video, keyboard and power management. It will also support both floppy and hard drives. Developed specifically for the embedded environment, Datalight's BIOS provides Arcom's new board with a faster boot time The time it takes for a device to be ready to operate after the power has been turned on. See boot. than standard PCs-reducing it from 12-16 seconds to less than 5 seconds. The BIOS also provides "Dark Boot", which will preclude any video output from the board. Arcom has also incorporated Datalight's FlashFX, a portable full-featured flash file system that makes flash memory appear as a disk. FlashFX provides optimized wear leveling and scheduled garbage collection while requiring only 12K ROM and 7K RAM. FlashFX is portable to any operating system or CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and is the fastest flash file system on the market today. "I have worked with Datalight and its software for over five years. In that time, I have received only positive feedback from my customers regarding ROM-DOS, FlashFX and the entire suite of Datalight products." Said Frank Pellitta, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Arcom. Pellitta continued, "I am continually impressed with the amount of effort that goes into the development and ongoing support of a Datalight product. I am always confident that Datalight will do whatever it takes to seamlessly port their software to our hardware." Arcom Control Systems is the UK's leading designer of industrial board-based computer control products. Company and product information can be found at www.arcomcontrols.com. Datalight develops and licenses professional quality system software, including operating systems and development tools for the Intel Architecture. The company's other products include: WinLight(TM), a Windows work-alike GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. and Sockets(TM), a TCP/IP stack for ROM-DOS and WinLight. Throughout the world, numerous companies, representing various technologies, depend on Datalight software for a multitude of industrial and consumer applications. More information on these and other Datalight products can be found at www.datalight.com. |
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