At CES, fabless chip-maker Mindspeed Technologies will demonstrate a prototype of a consumer DLNA router that combines its Comcerto 100 broadband processor with Wind River's Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition. The media sharing demonstration will also feature DigiOn's DiXiM Media Server (DMS), says Mindpeed.

The demonstration will show a broadband home router using Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology that shares and streams digital media from a variety of TVs, set-top boxes (STBs), computers, and gaming consoles across a home network. The integrated product can even share files that are saved on non-DLNA-enabled storage devices, claims the company, although it does not describe how the router would be able to discover such resources.

In June, Wind River announced plans to port Wind River Linux to Mindspeed's Comcerto 100. Announced in mid-2007, the Comcerto 100 is based on dual ARM11 cores clocked at 450MHz. According to Mindspeed, the packet processor also integrates "a security engine, 64KB of on-chip memory, 128KB of L2 cache, a 64-bit-wide, 165MHz multi-layer interconnect bus, and built-in QoS and traffic-management capabilities." Different configurations of the chip variously target VoIP, Fast Ethernet broadband routers, gigabit Ethernet broadband routers, and ATM routers.




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