PowerPC 400#V-Dragon

V -Dragon is an embedded processor designed for the Chinese market and for the Linux operating system.

Originally, the processor based on a PowerPC 405 core of IBM. In a joint development of IBM and the Chinese company Culturecom extended the PowerPC design and added an optional feature unit for output Chinese characters. It was in this first version is a 32- bit RISC CPU which has up to 16KB instruction and 16KB data cache. The integrated character generator supports over 32,000 characters. Developed from 2003 onwards second generation V -Dragon was developed by the Chinese company Culturecom Holdings Ltd.. in collaboration with Transmeta and eForce redeveloped.

This largely unrealized in China second version, which is based on the processor design Transmeta, is a special milestone for the Chinese, because so no licenses must be paid to Western companies. Moreover, the development is specially adapted to the requirements of the Asian world, where to Character and Numeric characters also be used in addition. The V- Dragon is equipped with its own font generator of up to 55000 characters can process supported by hardware. Thus far requires for the fond of less computing power than the otherwise working graphics card, which saves resources and energy.

The computing power will be on Pentium 3 levels with about 400 MHz, the system can max. 1 GB RAM address. From Culturecom a motherboard is offered with simple graphics engine, which provides 4 USB, LAN and 3 PCI and an ISA slot - AGP is not available. In China, in spite of the moderate computing power certainly have no problems with the paragraph - the Western world, however, uses such comparatively low-performance systems but for embedded systems. Mid-2003 are Culturecom Holdings Ltd.. Order numbers of more than 100,000 pieces of.

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