News Archive

Axis corporate news archive is available here.

 

September 23rd, 2005

The documentation section has undergone a slight restoration. Additional contents have been added and documents have been updated. Together with a new organization we hope this will ease the process of finding information. However, there is still more to come...

 

September 13th, 2005

The Errata for ETRAX 100LX has been updated.

 

July 29th, 2005

A virtual showroom has been created. Read about a wide range of designs using ETRAX 100LX and the Multi-Chip Module.

 

March 31st, 2005

A new developer board/device server SDK release 'devboard 2.00' is now available. This release is common for all Axis developer products. Go to the download section to download tar archives and the document section for build instructions and further information.

 

March 10th, 2005

AXIS 82/83 have received a hardware upgrade and new names.  The new AXIS 82+/83+ use the bigger ETRAX 100LX MCM 4+16, making significantly more Flash and SDRAM available to applications. How to migrate software from AXIS 82/83 is described in the documentation section.

 

October 19th, 2004

A new version of the GDB and Gdbserver for CRIS has been released. It has better backtraces and support for debugging threaded applications.

 

June 14th, 2004

A new Multi Chip Module has been released, ETRAX 100LX MCM 4+16. It includes twice as much memory at the same price as the old component.

 

March 11th, 2004

The Errata for ETRAX 100LX has been updated.

 

November 20th, 2003

The developer board for Bluetooth has been discontinued. The recommended replacement is Axis 82 with a Bluetooth Dongle.

 

April 3rd, 2003

New developer board, called Axis 82, using the ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8 chip, is released. A new device server, Axis 83, accompanies this release.

 

January 8th, 2003

The ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8 is finally available for general use. Volume production has started and is in ramp-up phase.

 

November 25th, 2002

Added a guide how to get Linux 2.4 running on the ETRAX 100LX MCM.

 

July 8th, 2002

Mechanical drawings of the MCM have been published in the data sheet.

 

April 11th, 2002

Chapter 11, EIDE/ATA Interface and Chapter 15, Shared RAM have been published in the  ETRAX 100LX Designer's Reference.

 

February 28th, 2002

Chapter 19, Internal Registers has been published in the ETRAX 100LX Designer's Reference.

 

February 28th, 2002

A lot of information about how to debug your programs with GDB has been published.

 

February 21st, 2002

Detailed technical information about the MCM chip is available in the ETRAX 100LX MCM Designer's Reference

 

December 11th, 2001

A new developer board - Axis Developer Board for Bluetooth introduced.

 

November 6th, 2001

How to add peripherals to ETRAX 100LX.

 

October 15th, 2001

The SDRAM design guide is complemented with a section that describes the R_SDRAM_CONFIG register in detail.

 

October 11th, 2001

The gcc-cris port is now merged into the official GCC sources.

 

August 9th, 2001

New section on graphical interfaces to gdb-cris.

 

July 12th, 2001

New chip announced - ETRAX 100LX Multi Chip Module

 

June 27th, 2001

Developer Board LX Software 2.0.0 using glibc and dynamic linking is released.

 

May 31st, 2001

How to make SDRAM design with ETRAX 100LX SDRAM Design Guide.

 

May 17th, 2001

Chapter 8, USB, and list of known bugs added to ETRAX 100LX Designer's Reference.

 

May 15th, 2001

How to add an USB port to your Developer Board LX document.

 

May 10th, 2001

Chapter 7, DMA, added to ETRAX 100LX Designer's Reference.

 

April 26th, 2001

Axis Device Server Platform is the same product as the Axis Developer Board LX, but it also includes a black aluminium casing.

 

April 24th, 2001

GDB for Developer Board LX released. Axis' port of the GNU Debugger provides you with a full-fledged debug environment for your Developer Board LX.

 

April 19th, 2001

Developer Board LX Software released. New documents available in the software documentation section.

 

April 9th, 2001

AXIS OpenBT stack is now available at Sourceforge.

 

March 6th, 2001

More chapters added to ETRAX 100LX Designer's Reference.

 

February 15th, 2001

New chapters available for ETRAX 100LX Designer's Reference.

 

January 18th, 2001

Axis Developer Board LX launched.

 

December 5th, 2000

ETRAX 100LX Programmer's Manual published.

 

December 5th, 2000

Possible to order sample units of ETRAX 100 from the web.

 

December 1st, 2000

Documents and FAQs moved to separate documentation section. New documents added as well.

 

November 15th, 2000

Results from the Developer Board contest were published

 

November 7th, 2000

Developer Board Software Release 1.0.2

 

November 3rd, 2000

Announcement of the ETRAX 100LX, the successor of the ETRAX 100 processor. Details are available in the press release.

 

November 1st, 2000

The developer board contest is now closed. We expect to announce the winners during the second week of November.

 

October 31st, 2000

A new version of the Bluetooth stack for Linux has been made available for download.

 

October 11th, 2000

Win a developer board. Our contest is open until the end of October.

 

August 31, 2000

New developer board hardware documentation available (schematics, PCB and BOM).

 

August 31, 2000

Documentation on writing device drivers for the developer board is now available.

 

August 29, 2000

Update of the ETRAX 100 Programmers Manual.

 

August 29, 2000

Updates of Chapter 3 and 6 in the ETRAX 100 datasheet.

 

August 29, 2000

New structure and look and feel on developer.axis.com. 

 

July 26, 2000

It is now possible to order the developer board on-line.

 

July 24, 2000

Datasheet (202 kB PDF) for the developer board.

 

July 5, 2000

Documentation on how to write applications for the developer board is now available.

 

May 18, 2000

The ETRAX 100 Programmer's Manual is now available.

 

March 29, 2000

Homepage and mailing-list for our Linux JFFS (Journaling Flash File System) is up!

 

March 14, 2000

Mailing list for technology news available. Send an email to majordomo@axis.com with subscribe tech-news in the message body. 

 

Feb 15, 2000

Axis announces development of Bluetooth stack - see Software/Bluetooth section.

 

Feb 7, 2000

Our Linux/ETRAX port is available in the download area.

 

January 12, 2000

Developer board pinout available. Testing of first prototypes is in progress.

 

November 24, 1999

Added download directory.

 

October 13, 1999

developer.axis.com goes live. A site with information on Axis technology and, once available, the source code to Axis embedded Linux.