TRITON-TX modules

TRITON-TX are our pin-compatible family of production-ready modules based on the Freescale i.MX family of ARM9 and ARM-Cortex A8 microcontrollers, including i.MX25, i.MX28, i.MX27, i.MX51 and i.MX53. Like other TRITON products, TRITON-TX modules combine longevity, quality and production-ready Windows CE and Linux BSPs. TRITON-TX system-on-modules are ingeniously implemented on a tiny DIMM200 form-factor, ready to be incorporated into your product manufacture or prototype, and come complete with a StarterKit-5 development system, supplied running Windows CE 6.0, Windows Embedded Compact 7, or Linux 2.6 / 3.0 - and soon Android 2.3.

TRITON-TX family members include:

TRITON-TX28S – ultra-low-priced module based on i.MX283 - 454MHz ARM9, the TRITON-TX28S is our lowest-priced module for general-purpose, high volume, commercial temperature grade applications with Windows Embedded CE 6.0 or Linux.

TRITON-TX25 – low-priced module based on i.MX257 or i.MX258 - 400MHz ARM9 with extended temperature operation, the TRITON-TX25 is our best-selling module for embedded applications with Windows Embedded CE 6.0 or Linux.

TRITON-TX28 – high performance ARM9 module with 454MHz i.MX287, dual-CAN, dual-Ethernet, DDR400 RAM. Thanks to a high memory bandwidth, while only a little more expensive than TX25, the TRITON-TX28 can handle larger displays, and is also ideal for handheld devices.

TRITON-TX27 – multimedia-ready ARM9 module with 400MHz i.MX27 with video codec, providing H264 and MPEG-4 encode/decode at resolutions up to D1 / VGA.

Guaranteed Longevity

Longevity is a major issue for ARM-based system-on-modules, as they don't conform to any industry-standard pinout. Since the first system-on-module shipped in 2002, we have guaranteed the lifetime of our products. For our i.MX based products longevity guarantees are underwritten my Freescale, who offer 10 to 15 year minimum lifetimes for the i.MX ARM-based range. We expect to shadow the Freescale lifetimes and additionally offer our customers a contractual 7-year longevity guarantee for TX-modules.

We are still shipping every TRITON system-on-module model that we have introduced, since 2002, and believe that the best test of any supplier in this regard is to ask both what they guarantee for the future, and to ask about the products that they were promoting 5 years ago. Many vendors introduce new products at such a rate that products generally disappear after as little as a year, and never reach a state of stable, complete software support.

European Manufacture

Because the TRITON-TX modules are manufactured in a high-quality small-batch production facility within the EU, there are never problems with manufacturing standards or with supply. If you order 100 modules and we don't have them in stock, we will make them. Often, modules are produced in large batches by volume-oriented contract manufacturers in the Far East, and once they are gone, they are gone, until orders for at least 5,000 accumulate in order to justify a run.

Comprehensive Board-Support Packages

Our BSPs for both Linux and Windows CE are complete, and are designed so that you can use them without further development or modification. One of the key advantages of the system-on-module approach is rapid time-to-market, and this cannot be realised if there is an unknown amount of extra work to be done to achieve a complete production ready hardware + software platform.

Pin-Compatibility

The TRITON-TX modules offer a high degree of pin-compatibility. It is therefore possible to design baseboards which are ready for different TRITON-TX family members, so that decisions on processing power can be deferred until the application is finished and tested, without delaying completion of hardware design. Additionally, products may be upgraded as new, more powerful TX modules become available.

Quality Support

We are experts in what we do. For example, our status as a Windows Embedded Gold Partner means that we are among a small number of companies who work closely with Microsoft because our expertise in Windows CE is at the very highest level. This level of knowledge means that you can be absolutely confident of success in your project, thanks to our ability to support you, and to quickly resolve any problems which may arise along the way.