Aerospace - Defense

“We are thrilled to be adding to our support of Freescale processors as well as extending our alliance with Silicon Turnkey Express. This is an exciting time for us as our customers are realizing the value of adding extensive hardware testing and diagnostics to their overall product development,” stated Joseph Skazinski, Kozio’s president.

Kozio, a member of the Freescale Tools Alliance Program, provides advanced test capabilities for custom board designs based on the PowerQUICC II Pro processor with two week delivery times. Kozio’s latest release includes support for the MPC8343E, MPC8347E, MPC8349E, MPC8358E, and MPC8360E processors. Functional tests, diagnostics and programming capabilities are provided for the CPU, Flash memory, DDR SDRAM, NVRAM, PCI, I2C, GPIO, Ethernet Controllers, USB, local bus, UART, DMA Controllers, SPI and Interrupt Controller. Kozio software allows faults to be isolated down to the component level. Additional capabilities are available as needed, because each Kozio product delivery is custom tailored to each customer’s board design.

“Extensive hardware test capabilities provide a great enabler for Freescale customers, allowing them to get products to market faster,” said Mike Shoemake, business manager for Freescale’s Digital Systems Division. “Kozio software provides very attractive test capabilities for PowerQUICC processors, including the functional testing of high-speed serial interfaces.”

Kozio is partnering with Silicon Turnkey Express (www.silicontkx.com) and providing evaluation copies of Kozio’s kDiagnostics software package for STx’s GP2-PRO reference platform, a low-cost single-board computer using the Freescale PowerQUICC II Pro processor. The GP2-PRO provides an upgrade path from 82xx PowerQUICC II processor-based systems and provides integral cryptographic accelerator and Gigabit Ethernet features, making it ideal for network security and virtual storage applications. Kozio's evaluation copy of kDiagnostics includes functional tests for SATA, USB, Gigabit Ethernet and the core MPC83xx features.

“I see significant value in using Kozio test software for manufacturing PowerQUICC devices,” said Robert Applebaum, President of Silicon Turnkey Express.

Support for your custom hardware platform using a PowerQUICC II Pro processor is now available. As with all Kozio products, software can be customized to meet specific customer requirements.

About Kozio, Inc.
Kozio, Inc. develops software solutions that verify design and validate hardware for embedded single-board computer systems used in products such as ADSL gateways, wireless access points, network routers, voice solutions, security and test equipment, and aerospace systems. Kozio's products provide comprehensive test solutions, including diagnostics for board bring-up, automated manufacturing test, and built-in self-test software for manufactured products. Kozio's customers design, develop and manufacture boards used in computer-based electronic systems for the aerospace, networking, defense, test and wireless industries. Kozio products ease many embedded systems development challenges, from design through manufacturing and support, saving customers time and money. The company is privately held and based in Longmont, Colorado. For more information, visit www.kozio.com.

Kozio and kDiagnostics is a registered trademark of Kozio, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Contact: Joseph Skazinski, Kozio, Inc., (303) 776-1356,
or Brad Shannon, Shannon Marketing Communications, (970) 461-4906.