Mazet is a founding member of the E2brain interest group (embedded electronic brain), together with Kontron, Ultratronik from Germany, Odyssee from France, and UniControls from the Czech Republic
The aim of the E2brain Interest Group (IG) is the joint development and marketing of Risc-based coms designed around E2brain - the recently published com standard from Kontron.
The creation of this interest group reinforces E2brain's claims as a new standard.
Users will benefit in particular from an expanded range of services for E2brain and a greater range of Risc-com products.
By mid-2006, membership of the E2brain Industrial Group should have reached approx 15 companies - it is not only com manufacturers, but also com integrators and OEMs that are invited to join the E2brain Interest Group.
Further E2brain boards will be developed and brought to market at a rapid pace.
In order to ensure uniform global development of the E2brain standards, the founding members considered it necessary to found a public E2brain consortium.
Current reference designs show how seriously the founding members take the further development of E2brain, with these designs not just coming from Kontron: Mazet recently launched the E2brain-compliant MEB 5200 development platform with MPC5200 from Freescale as a compact communication centre.
In addition to standard PC interfaces such as PCI, IDE, USB and 10/100 Mbit ethernet, industrial standards such as Can, I2C or SPI are also available as interfaces for the direct connection of required peripherals.
The user-friendly bootloader Uboot makes it possible to start up the preferred embedded Linux on this platform.
Mazet develops customer-specific embedded computing platform on the basis of this platform.
Frank Reklies, technical head of hard- and software development at Mazet summarises as follows: "This platform serves as the starting-point for customer-specific developments that require high-performance processors with numerous interfaces and a high level of integration".
"This applies to all mobile applications, as well as applications in the automotive or mechanical engineering sectors." At the end of the first half of 2006, Mazet will begin the mass supply of two customer-modified versions of the MEB5200.
Other customer projects are currently in the development phase.
