04.Oct.2006
PPCNUX (website)
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PPCNUX: Detailed Efika report
The online magazine PPCNUX has visited bplan at the special fair 'EBV TechTrends 2006' and presents
a detailed and pictured English report..
The report showsboth sides of the Efika board and mentions a maximim power consumtion of 1,08 watt for the MPC5200B-SoC, a theoretical maximum
1,5 watts for each memory chip ans peak values of below 5 watts for the hard disk. The
IDE traffic speed is rated at 8 MB/s (stable) and the OpenFirmware is iproved with programable power on times and usb media boot boot support.
Further it is said that DVD replay in full resolution is possible at 92% processor load.
Until a mass production starts, which will lead to price as low as 99 US $, the Efika is estimated to be sold at
249 Euro. Orders in the 4 digits magnitude range are confirmed already. 400 pcs are ordered by Freescale alone, the half of those will
go to developers for free.
MorphOS is said to be able to run on any 32 Bit PowerPC system - and since the main developer of MorphOS, Ralph Schmidt, belongs to bplan
the availability of MorphOS for the Efika rather a political decision.
regarding the Pegasos boards further production runs are no problem, all components are available as RoHS compliant parts. Other cpu combinations are possible,
but due to economic reasons not followed yet.
Asked regarding the release of a new SmartFirmware version bplan minded the big number of required tests and the risk that users may risk to render their boards unusable.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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