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Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) and Axentra are helping to make "anywhere, anytime" access for consumers a reality by collaborating on a comprehensive reference platform for residential gateways and home media servers. The Digital Home Center platform combines HipServ software from Axentra, a leading provider of personal digital content and services software platforms, and the MPC8349E mITX reference board, containing a PowerPC(R) core, from Freescale. Freescale and Axentra are partnering on the Digital Home Center platform to address the growing market for customer premises equipment (CPE) with remote access capabilities and home-based content management. This emerging class of CPE products makes it easy for consumers to access digital content from networked equipment in any room in the house -- or remotely from any location in the world from one simple user interface. According to iSuppli research, there are more than 45 million installed home networks worldwide today, and this number is forecast to exceed 120 million by 2009. More than 60 million of these home networks will be media-enabled, fueling the demand for "anywhere, anytime" access to content (photos, video, music, games, movies) in the digital home. Freescale's and Axentra's turnkey hardware/software reference platform is designed for OEMs, ODMs and service providers who want to develop digital home CPE products and bring them to market quickly and at minimal cost. The resulting products will enable consumers to connect all of their digital networked appliances and benefit from unified content and services management capabilities from locations around the world. "The Digital Home Center reference platform targets a new breed of home consumer: the digital content enthusiast who wants to access, manage, back-up and share a wealth of files from any location, and HipServ is designed to do that very well," said Lynelle McKay, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Digital Systems Division. "Many leading CPE manufacturers and service providers are anticipating this remote-access and content-sharing trend and are seeking leading-edge platform solutions like ours to streamline development of digital home center products." "HipServ is the first software platform that will unify the content needs of users at home in a simple and easy experience," said Marc Benglia, chief executive officer of Axentra. "From anywhere, consumers can always access their content through HipServ and share it securely. Freescale's PowerQUICC II Pro processor is a perfect platform to deploy HipServ software because it provides the cost-effective performance and connectivity required to manage digital content in the home." About Axentra's HipServ software HipServ is a comprehensive digital home software platform offering a simple unified user experience as well as a personal digital content management. HipServ makes access to and sharing of any home-based content simple and secure. In addition, HipServ easily detects any Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) compliant device in the home and adds it to the HipServ platform, enabling simple, centralized content management. Service providers and OEMs can integrate HipServ into their existing portals and deploy next-generation services that allow users to manage content from within the home or remotely. HipServ can reside on any home-based CPE device, such as a residential gateway, network-attached storage (NAS) home media server, set-top box or personal computer. HipServ software clears the complexities of networking and aggregating of content for ease of use and file management flexibility. Key HipServ software features include: -- Remote access, sharing and publishing of home-based content -- Unified operating environment and interface for central access to any content -- Auto back-up from home PC or media server to central storage or remote storage -- Media management and server (UPnP-AV) -- Home surveillance capability via Internet camera -- Remote desktop access -- Easy management of photo, music and video files About the MPC8349E mITX reference board Freescale designed the MPC8349E mITX reference board to enable developers to minimize hardware development and speed time to market. Available in the 170mm x 170mm mini-ITX form factor, the compact reference board makes it easy to design small-footprint digital home systems. The platform ships with Linux 2.6.x with Samba on Flash. Schematics, layout files and Gerber files are available online. The Freescale reference board is based on the MPC8349E PowerQUICC II Pro processor containing a PowerPC(R) core. In addition to the high-performance e300 core operating at 667 MHz, the MPC8349E includes advanced features, such as DDR memory, dual 32-bit/single 64-bit PCI controllers, dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers, high-speed USB 2.0 controllers and an integrated security engine. Key features of the MPC8349E mITX board include: -- Robust memory subsystem -- Four-port USB 2.0 interface -- 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch from Vitesse -- On-board 4-port PCI serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) controller -- 32-bit PCI slot and a 32-bit MiniPCI slot -- Two-port RS-232C interface -- Power supply -- SATA hard drive Availability Freescale's MPC8349E mITX reference board is available now. For system design and pricing information, please contact your local Freescale sales representative or an authorized Freescale distributor. For more details, visit www.freescale.com/networking. HipServ software is available now from Axentra. To learn more about licensing HipServ software, visit www.axentra.com. About Axentra Axentra is a pioneer in the development of software platform for the digital home and server software for the home and SOHO markets with its award winning Net-Box technology. Axentra's technology offers leading edge yet affordable and easy to manage all-in-one web, email and file servers and Operating Environment software for PCs and Mac along with OEM and SP solutions. Axentra's value proposition goes well beyond state-of-the-art networking software; it is about giving tens of millions of broadband Internet users total control over their digital environment. About Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. 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