TES announces DM3730 based MAGiK (Media & Graphics Innovation Kit) supporting Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Linux

Stuttgart, Germany -- November 4, 2010 -- TES Electronic Solutions (“TES”), the global electronics design and manufacturing services company announces an upgrade to its MAGiK family of embedded computing development kits with the incorporation of Texas Instruments’ DaVinci DM3730 media processor, as well as supporting the Android operating system. The DM3730 is a 720p- ready media processor, faster than the popular OMAP35xx and uses 40 percent less power. It integrates a 1 GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 core, a 800 MHz C64x+ DSP core and a 3D graphics accelerator, and is manufactured in a 45nm process.

MAGiK (Media & Graphics Innovation Kit) proves TES’ competence in electronic design services and manufacturing by integrating embedded computing technologies with graphics and multimedia in a ready-to-use innovation kit. Its hardware is a combination of a flexible production-ready system module based on Texas Instruments’ DaVinci™ DM3730 media processor along with a generic I/O board, enabling a comprehensive set of multimedia connectivity and general purpose expansion ports to suit most embedded development requirements. The kit’s software consists of the selected operating systems (OS) ( Android / Linux), the Guiliani C++ framework for convenient development of feature-rich, animated GUI, graphics acceleration and a multimedia suite.

The industrial grade system modules and accompanying software stack are easy to integrate into custom products targeting e.g. medical, industrial, home automation, transportation and high-end consumer applications.

"An upgrade to the DM3730 offers our customers enhanced performance, low power and flexibility of using an existing software stack," said Martin Gassner, Director sales and marketing TES-DST. "We are bringing the features of the latest mobile processors to the industrial space offering a similar user experience and a longer life cycle as demanded by our customers. Early this year, we integrated our Guiliani user interface framework on MAGiK. As a step further we are now offering a choice of Android 2.2 or Linux on DM3730 with accelerated graphics and multimedia. We are positioning ourselves as a value adding ODM, capable of offering services, technology and manufacturing."

"As an Elite Design House member, TES’ hardware and software design expertise is clearly highlighted on MAGiK --- integrating graphics, multimedia framework and a user-friendly HMI framework for a variety of industrial, medical and consumer applications," said Vineet Ganju, product marketing manager, C6000 products, TI. "The MAGiK production-ready reference design, based on high- performance TI analog, power management and DaVinci DM3730 media processors, combined with TES’ manufacturing services, is already helping worldwide customers accelerate time-to-market for their products."

The MAGiK DM3730 development kit is priced at € 1099 and available for order now. Typical applications for MAGiK are home media devices, museum AV guides, portable industrial measurement devices, building security, media phone with DECT, personal medical devices, portable GNSS displays and digital signage. More information on MAGiK can be obtained on www.tes-dst.com/magik

Features of MAGiK-MX 3730 Kit & System Module :

• 7-inch 800x480 capacitive multi-touch display
• MAGiK MX System module supports
• Texas Instruments DaVinci DM3730 media processor
• 512 Mbytes Mobile DDR
• 512MBytes or 1GByte NAND, 64Mbytes NOR Flash
• Complete power management on board
• Micro SD on system module
• 2x180 pin high -speed connector
• Support for Linux and Android 2.2 Froyo
• Multimedia framework OpenCORE™ & GStreamer integrated with MPEG-4, H.264, MP3 and AAC codecs on Linux and Android
• Guiliani user interface framework on Linux
• HDMI, RCA and component video input / output
• Industrial temperature grades and RoHS compliant
• Generic expansion through Altera Cyclone III FPGA
• Optional WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G modem support
• Optional DECT & CATiQ 2.0 support on USB/SPI

GUI Framework Eval kit

A free evaluation kit to develop rich user interface solutions on OMAP & DaVinci is available from http://support.tes-dst.com

About TES Electronic Solutions

TES Electronic Solutions is a global electronics services company offering a blend of technology innovation, custom electronic design and manufacturing solutions. TES designs customer specific systems or sub-systems that are optimized to a customer’s applications. TES also develops licensable wireless, graphics and multimedia IP which accelerates time to market. TES has expertise in the design of analog and digital integrated circuits, embedded software and hardware up to complete system solutions. The company delivers solutions to blue-chip companies worldwide from its design centres in Germany, France, UK, India and Serbia.

About the Texas Instruments Developer Network

TES Electronic Solutions is a member of the TI Developer Network, a community of respected, well-established companies offering products and services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun.