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Custom Media Center Firmware for Integrative Home Media

EPAM works together with Integrative Home Media on standards in user interfaces for consumer electronics. In order to spread its ideas worldwide, Integrative Home Media and EPAM created a custom media center/player firmware for the DGStation Relook 100s/200s and Sezam 7700/7900 satellite receivers, and made it freely available. For more information and firmware downloads, please visit www.integrativehomemedia.com.

Project details

Description	Firmware for media center
Hardware platform	PowerPC (DGStation Relook 100s/200s, Sezam 7700/7900, CubCafe 200s/250s receivers)
Related technologies	Multimedia servers, Firmware, User Interface Design, RISC, Linux
Related industries	Consumer Electronics

Network-attached Storage

Developed for a number of hardware platforms (x86, x86_64, Intel XScale, and Freescale) Linux-based network-attached storage software features an administrative web interface, advanced volume management capabilities, and support for file and disk sharing (SMB(CIFS)/Windows, FTP, NFS, and iSCSI). Printer server functionality is also supported. The software relies on such products as EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System), Samba, J2ME/J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Java 2 Micro Edition), and more.

Description	Network-attached storage
Hardware platform	PC (x86), XScale (ARM), Freescale (PowerPC)
Related technologies	Firmware, Linux, Web Applications, User Interface Design, Storage, Java, Drivers, RISC
Related industries	Consumer Electronics, Software and Technology

Administrative Interface for Industrial Equipment

Linux-based administrative interface for industrial equipment developed using C++ and wxWidgets.

Description	Administrative interface for industrial equipment
Hardware platform	ARM
Related technologies	Firmware, Linux, User Interface Design, RISC, SCADA
Related industries	Chemical

Build Environment for Everything (BEE)

BEE is the build and test environment, aimed at simplifying creation and maintenance of consistent specialized distributions as well as standalone packages for different distributions and platforms. The product is written in Ruby and runs on top of the Linux OS.

Description	Build and test environment
Hardware platform	Platform-independent
Related technologies	Linux, Ruby
Related industries	Software and Technology

iSCSI Target

Linux-based iSCSI Target is a specialized distribution available for x86 and XScale platforms, and features an administrative web interface. The software relies on such products as EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System), J2ME/J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Java 2 Micro Edition), and more.

Description	iSCSI Target
Hardware platform	PC (x86), XScale (ARM)
Related technologies	Firmware, Linux, Web Applications, Storage, Java, Drivers, RISC
Related industries	Consumer Electronics, Software and Technology

Print Server

Print server software for network-attached storage was initially created for XScale platform, and features an administrative web interface and support for USB printers.

Description	Print server
Hardware platform	XScale (ARM)
Related technologies	Linux, Web Applications
Related industries	Consumer Electronics, Software and Technology

Porting Linux to an ARM-based Hardware

In this project, Fedora Core 6 was ported to an ARM-based hardware; additionally, drivers for the customer-specific hardware were developed, as well as custom software update and system integrity check solution.

Description	Linux port to ARM-based hardware
Hardware platform	ARM (at91sam7)
Related technologies	Linux, Drivers, RISC
Related industries	Software and Technology

Bootloader for Mobile Phone

The resulting product is firmware bootloader for mobile phones based on ARM-family CPU. Advanced feature of provided bootloader is firmware-over-the-air update system to allow firmware updates at phone boot-up. Tools used: ARM assembler, GNU Toolchain, Strongarm Blob Bootloader.

Description	Bootloader for mobile phone
Hardware platform	ARM
Related technologies	Firmware, Linux, RISC
Related industries	Consumer Electronics