- EFIKA
EFIKA is a small single board
Power Architecture based computer manufactured byGenesi .It is based on a 400 MHz
Freescale MPC5200B SoC-processor and adds 44-pin 2.5" IDE,USB , serial port, stereo audio in/out, 100 Mbit/sEthernet , 33/66 MHz PCI port and 128 MB DDRRAM . EFIKA uses anOpen Firmware based CHRP compliantfirmware with a special x86/BIOS emulator providing support for standard graphics cards on an AGP riser slot. Themotherboard has a non-standard form factor, 118 mm x 153 mm x 38 mm small.Due to its small size, RoHS compliance and energy efficient nature (drawing less than 20 W with a harddrive and a graphics card, typically less than 10 W during most usage scenarios), the EFIKA is considered very environmentally friendly.
An EFIKA computer can run a variety of
operating system s amongLinux (Gentoo,openSUSE ,Debian and CRUX PPC),MorphOS ,OpenSolaris andQNX . It is sometimes called "EFIKA 5K2", since it uses the PowerPC e300 core based MPC5200B processor.On 10 September 2007, Genesi announced that they are developing a new version of the EFIKA based on the Freescale MPC5121e [" [http://www.genesi-usa.com/press.php?date=20070910 Le Roi est Mort. Vive le Roi!] "
September 10 ,2007 . Retrieved onFebruary 2 ,2008 .] , which will features on-boardPowerVR MBX video and an additional 200 MHz fully-programmable RISC core, although it still has the same e300 core running at 400 MHz."Efika" is a word in
Esperanto meaning "efficient".See also
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Power Architecture
*Pegasos
**Open Desktop Workstation
*mobileGT References
External links
* [http://www.pegasosppc.com/efika.php EFIKA's homepage]
* [http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/efika_spec_en.html EFIKA specs from bplan]
* [http://book.efika.org/ The Book of Efika]
* [http://www.genesippc.com Genesi's homepage]
* [http://www.efika.de EFIKA.de]
* [http://www.pegasosforum.de Pegasos Support Forum & Community]
* [http://www.pegasos.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1265 EFIKA: First Impressions – Pegasos.org]
* [http://www.ppcnux.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6614 EFIKA public presentation at EBV Tech Trends 2006 – http://www.ppcnux.de/]
* [http://gentoo-wiki.com/Efika Gentoo's EFIKA page]
* [http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/releases/2.2.0.2/efika-howto.html CRUX PPC's EFIKA HowTo]
* [http://en.opensuse.org/Efika102 openSUSE's EFIKA page]
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