The OMAP5912 Starter Kit (OSK) for Portable Data Terminals (PDT) is a low cost, easy to use, convenient way of evaluating the features of the OMAP5912 Processor in next generation PDT devices. The kit includes a development board, and a collection of board and chip specific libraries as well as a suite of development tools for Linux with an OMAP5912 specific Linux kernel. The kit allows users to get started on a portable data terminal-based application and device development.