Witech Introduced Third Generation OK2440 ARM9 development

12th July 2010

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Witech again updated their OK2440, the most popular ARM9 development kit for the Samsung S3C2440 micro processor. The OK2440-III development kit features the workhorse S3C2440 processor clocked to 533MHz, and targets embedded development training applications, industrial control equipment, and consumer electronics devices such as PDAs and PNDs (personal navigation devices).

This is the third time that Witech updated their OK2440 development kit. As introduced by Witech, major improvment that are made on the OK2440-III include a 4MB Nor Flash, a IDE harddisk connector, a IIC EEPROM, and support for LVDS big size LCDs. On the software part, Witech upgraded WinCE5.0 to WinCE6.0 R3, and Embedded Linux to the latest 2.6.33 kernel for the OK2440-III development kit, Board Specific Pakcages and Software Development Kits are provided in source code, “These BSPs and SDKs are supposed to help customers a lot with shortening their development circle and reducing their Time-to-Market”, says Witech.

Touted as the world's fastest mobile CPU when launched in 2003, the S3C2440 primarily targets handheld devices such as smartphones and PDAs. The SoC integrates 16KB each of instruction and data cache, 4KB RAM, a NAND flash boot loader, power management functions, an interrupt controller, and an external memory controller.

In addition to the powerful CPU, the OK2440-III comes with 64MB SDRAM, 4MB NOR Flash, and 256MB NAND Flash, which is expandable with a SD card slot and a IDE hard disk connector, and peripherial I/O including USB, serial connections, 100M Ethernet, audio, video (LCD, camera), etc..