Raza Microelectronics (RMI) announced a network-attached storage (NAS) reference design based on Linux and a new, lower-cost version of RMI’s previously available XLS208 SoC. RMI’s “NAS Media Server Reference Design” uses RMI’s new dual-core, 750MHz XLS108 SoC, and comes with a boot loader, SDK, and “RAID-enabled” Linux 2.6 implementation.
The RMI NAS Media Server Reference Design Kit is built around a new lower-end version of RMI’s XLS208 system-on-chip (SoC) that shipped last April. Like its predecessor, the XLS108 has two MIPS64 cores. However, it clocks only to 750MHz instead of 1GHz, and has a lighter mix of on-chip peripheral interfaces (more about the new chip below).
