Castle announce support for legacy expansion cards

12th September 2003

CASTLE ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR LEGACY EXPANSION CARDS (PODULES)

Castle announce today a significant increase in the support for IYONIX pc I/O interfaces, particularly for scientific and industrial applications.

With the assistance of Castle, Intelligent Interfaces have used the latestAcorn C/C++ Development Suite to produce 26/32 bit neutral versions of the modules for their range of 'legacy' expansion cards (podules) including:

IEEE488 (GPIB);
16 Bit Parallel I/O;
Dual High Speed Serial;
Single Width I/O;
User Port;
12 Bit Analogue to Digital Converter.

The 26/32 bit neutral modules are loaded from disc. There is no requirement to upgrade the expansion card ROM. They have the same specifications as the previous 26 bit versions and, therefore, can be used as direct replacements.

Andy Ray, Technical Director of Intelligent Interfaces, said, "The IYONIX pc has an ultra fast Intel XScale processor and hard drive performance. The addition of our expansion cards make it the ideal computer for measurement and control applications in science and industry."

For more information on the 26/32 bit neutral modules visit http://www.intint.demon.co.uk/.

For more information on the 32-bit IYONIX pc visit http://www.iyonix.com/.

About Castle Technology Ltd

Castle's RISC OS development expertise goes back to 1987. Castle produces a range of RISC OS computers (A7000+, Risc PC and IYONIX pc) for everyday home, business, comercial and development use. We also provide a range of services to our customers to help realise a fast time-to-market product development based on ARM processors. (Typical applications range from small multimedia, hand-held devices through to powerful desktop based applications.)

For more information on Castle's products and services please visit:
http://www.castle-technology.co.uk/.

About Intelligent Interfaces

Since 1981 Intelligent Interfaces have been involved in the design, development, manufacture and supply of microcomputer interface hardware and software principally for scientific and industrial applications. In the early days this was for the Commodore PET, Apple II and BBC Microcomputer. Subsequently, they produced interfaces for DOS-based PCs and the Acorn Archimedes range of computers. Today they concentrate on Windows, Linux and RISC OS based computers.