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News Release from: BVM | Subject: cPC1000DK CompactPCI development platform
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2001
CompactPCI platform for embedded system
developers
The new cPC1000DK CompactPCI high performance development platform from BVM is intended for use by system integrators and developers to develop both disc based and embedded applications.
The new cPC1000DK CompactPCI high performance development platform from BVM Limited is intended for use by system integrators and developers to develop both disc based and embedded applications The system is powered by BVM's cPC200 single slot CompactPCI SBC and is offered pre-loaded and configured with either Windows NT4, NT4 Embedded, Windows 2000 or Linux O/S
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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