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Target Technologies, Inc. Announces Motorola MPC860SAR PowerQUICC Software Device Driver
Business Wire, July 14, 1998
ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1998--Target Technologies, Inc. announced it has developed a new software device driver package for the Motorola MPC860SAR PowerPC Quad Integrated Communications Controller (PowerQUICC) microprocessor.
The Motorola MPC860SAR communications microprocessor is designed for telecommunications, internetworking, and data communications applications. The MPC860SAR supports asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) segmentation-and-reassembly functions (SAR), frame relay high-level data link control (HDLC) and Ethernet-based networking.
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Motorola's MPC860SAR communications microprocessor integrates on a single chip; a PowerPC core; a system integration interface unit; an independent RISC communications engine with four serial channels supporting Ethernet, 64 channels of HDLC and ATM SAR functions in internetworking and telecommunications equipment.
Target Technologies' new MPC860 device driver software package allows developers to fully exploit the feature-set of the MPC860 controller. It supports Utopia and serial interfaces, AAL0 and AAL5 protocols, look-up and address compression modes, and direct CBR/UBR features. The driver software is user configurable, allowing users to configure time slot assignment (TSA), baud rates and frame sizes in accordance with the MPC860 specifications. Target's software enhancements include loopback diagnostics, debugging outputs and statistics support.
Target's MPC860 device driver package is currently available for use with Wind River Systems' VxWorks real-time operating system. The driver is designed to be fully compatible with Harris & Jeffries' Soft-ATM(TM) line of high-performance ATM software subsystems. H&J will be selling a product based upon this technology. Target Technologies can customize the driver for use with other software packages and operating systems.
"Target Technologies has worked closely with Motorola in developing this new software device driver" said Ferenc Koplyay, product manager for the MPC860SAR and MPC850 at Motorola. "By optimizing its device driver for the MPC860SAR and synthesizing it with operating systems and protocol stacks, Target Technologies is providing a development solution that offers our customers excellent time-to-market advantages," Mr. Koplyay continued.
"We are excited about this latest product. The combination of our drivers with 'best-in-class' software from Wind River and Harris & Jeffries provides equipment manufacturers with a reliable, high-performance solution that can help them shorten their development cycles," said Mark Miller, president of Target Technologies, Inc.
The MPC860 device driver software package is the first of many products for the MPC8xx family that Target will be introducing in the next few weeks. Current development efforts near completion include: MPC850SAR device driver, MPC8xx HDLC/Frame relay, and RTOS board support packages for several commercially available MPC8xx based systems.
About Target Technologies, Inc.
Headquartered in Andover, MA, Target Technologies, Inc. provides custom engineering services, porting, integration and product development consulting to manufacturers and developers of telecommunications, internetworking and data communications hardware and software. Its products and services help to expedite new product development. Founded in 1990, Target Technologies has gained its experience in the telecommunications marketplace by concentrating on the core technologies used in a wide variety of communications applications.
CONTACT: Target Technologies, Inc.
Debra Landry, 978.975.9919
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The Strayton Group, Inc.
Rob Strayton, 508.655.6965
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