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eCosCentric Bundles eXtremeDB™
with eCosPro® Developer's Kit
eCosCentric is extending ARM9 versions of the eCosPro Developer's Kit to to include
a royalty-free version of McObject's eXtremeDB small-footprint in-memory
embedded database system.
[more]
2008-04-08
eCosPro® for Altera Nios® II embedded processor
Altera and eCosCentric announce the availability of
eCosPro for Altera's
Nios II embedded processor, the
world's most widely used configurable soft-core processor.
Altera Nios II customers now have access to a complete eCosPro
solution consisting of the run-time system, complementary host
tools and certified third party applications. eCosCentric will
also develop, maintain, and make available to Altera customers its
eCosPro Starter and Developers Kits for the Nios II processor.
[more]
2007-07-09
New O'Reilly book features eCos
The second edition of Programming Embedded Systems, by Michael Barr and Anthony Massa,
covers embedded software design & techniques
using the eCos RTOS as the basis for many of its examples.
"The first edition of Programming Embedded Systems taught the subject to tens
of thousands of people and is now considered the bible of embedded programming.
[...] the new second edition is sure to help a new generation of programmers
develop the skills they need to achieve proficiency with embedded software."
[more]
2006-11-09
eCosCentric recommends Ashling Opella
"Before recommending any debug hardware eCosCentric thoroughly evaluates it for use with
the eCosPro® Developer's Kit.
We pay close attention to its overall functionality, robustness,
quality, and integration with eCosPro's Eclipse-based IDE and command line debuggers.
The evaluation process enables us to identify high quality hardware debug solutions and
helps to ensure positive user experiences for our customers".
[more]
2006-11-01
eCosPro® for Freescale MCF5213 ColdFire® microcontroller
eCosCentric announce the availability of
eCosPro®
for the Freescale Semiconductor
MCF5213 ColdFire® microcontroller.
Evaluation boards will be distributed with an eCosPro
Starter Kit allowing end-users to rapidly evaluate eCos and
begin building applications based upon it. The MCF5213
ColdFire microcontroller is a single chip solution
containing 256KiB flash, 32KiB RAM and peripherals.
[more]
2006-10-12
eCosPro® for NXP Nexperia™ PNX8330 and eCosPro-MMFS
eCosCentric announce the availability of eCosPro®
for NXP Nexperia™ STB220 set-top box reference solution
and introduce eCosPro-MMFS, the high performance Multimedia
Filesystem. Platforms will be distributed with an eCosPro Starter
Kit allowing end-users to rapidly evaluate eCos and begin building
applications based upon it, targeting high-end personal video
recorders and dual-view set-top boxes.
[more]
2006-10-11
eCosCentric add eXtremeDB™
for eCosPro®
eCosCentric and McObject announce business partnership in
which McObject has ported its
eXtremeDB™
in-memory embedded database to the eCosPro®
Developer's Kit. eCosCentric will also resell
eXtremeDB. eXtremeDB provides
critical data management features, including transactions,
concurrent access, high availability and a high-level data
definition language.
[more]
2006-08-30
eCosPro® selected for Philips Nexperia™ PNX83xx
eCosCentric announced that eCosPro® has
been selected by Philips as the real-time operating system for their
next generation Nexperia PNX83xx semiconductor solutions. Reference
platforms will be distributed with an eCosPro Starter Kit allowing
end-users to rapidly evaluate eCos and begin building applications
based upon it.
[more]
2006-07-13
Adoption of eCos RTOS shows sustained growth
The LinuxDevices 2006 embedded survey
points to a continued increase in open source operating system adoption, whilst proprietary OS's decline.
The survey reveals that eCos usage has grown to nearly 5%, up from 3.2% in the previous years survey.
This upward trend is also reflected in the findings of
CMP's 2006 embedded market
survey which reports a usage of 6%, up from just over 4% in the
2005 survey.
2006-06-16
eCosCentric adds CAN driver support to eCosPro®
eCosCentric announced the addition of CAN driver
support for eCosPro®. The eCosPro-CAN package
initially targets the Philips Semiconductors SJA1000, on-chip CAN
controllers found in Philips Semiconductors' popular LPC2000 ARM7
family and FlexCAN modules found in Freescale Semiconductor's range
of ColdFire and PowerPC processors.
[more]
2006-04-07
eCos, un RTOS adaptatif
eCos signifie Embedded Configurable Operating System. Ce
RTOS a développé Cygnus Solutions dès
1997. Avec le rachat de cette société, RedHat
devient alors le propriétaire du systéme en
1999, un an après la sortie de la première version.
[more]