This page lists current news items. For older news please look in the eCosCentric news archive.
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Eclipse Juno support added with eCosPro plugin
eCosCentric add support for the Eclipse Juno release,
providing eCosPro developers access to the
new features and improved workflow.
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2013-04-23
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Integrated USB Host stack added to eCosPro
eCosCentric introduces a USB host stack for eCosPro,
tightly integrated with the eCos file system layer.
Provides for mass storage and hubs devices with hot-swap
capability.
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2013-04-22
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Bonjour conformant Zeroconf networking added to eCosPro
eCosCentric brings the simplicity of Zeroconf networking to eCosPro, allowing dynamic device management and service discovery.
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2013-02-26
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Russian satellite uses eCos-based control system
The Chibis-M satellite launched from the International Space Station
is on a multi-year mission to study upper atmosphere electrical phenomena such as sprites and jets.
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2013-01-24
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eCosPro's lwIP stack upgraded to IPv6 capable v1.4 release
The lightweight IP networking stack integrated with eCosPro has been updated
to v1.4, adding new features, performance and reliability improvements over the previous release.
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2013-01-07
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NTP (Network Time Protocol) added to eCosPro
eCosCentric adds NTP support to eCosPro
and delivers high precision advanced
clock management to provide unified
time services.
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2012-06-21
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eCos RTOS used in Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour transports
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station.
eCos is used in the experiment's main DAQ computers.
[more]
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2011-05-19
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eCosPro for microMIPS
MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric announced that
eCosCentric has ported its eCosPro RTOS to the
microMIPS instruction set architecture, running on
the MIPS32 M14K and M14Kc cores.
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2011-05-04
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eCosPro v3.1
eCosCentric announces a significant update to the
eCosPro Developer's Kit. The new 3.1 release focuses
on upgrading and enhancing the cross development
environment, tools and range of supported hosts.
[more]
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2011-05-03
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eCosPro-SecureSockets
eCosCentric announces the availablity of
eCosPro-SecureSockets, a port of the widely used
OpenSSL toolkit, adapted for deeply embedded applications
using eCos, based on OpenSSL v1.0.0a.
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2010-09-22
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eCosPro-Prism
eCosCentric and Blue Water Embedded announce the availability of eCosPro-Prism,
a certified port of the Prism Runtime Framework™ graphical user interface development tools.
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2010-07-15
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eCosPro for TI OMAP-L138
eCosCentric announces availability of eCosPro for the Texas
Instruments' (TI) Zoom
OMAP™-L138 eXperimenter
Kit and comprehensive driver support.
[more]
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2010-03-04
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NAND library and YAFFS for eCos
eCosCentric announces availability of its own NAND library, and
in partnership with Aleph One, the YAFFS NAND file system.
[more]
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2009-09-22
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Award Winning Prentice Hall OS textbook features eCos
Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles computer science textbook
covers eCos as an example of one of the most widely used embedded operating systems.
Winner of the 2009 Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association.
eCosCentric's CTO Nick Garnett provided technical review of the eCos material in the book.
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2009-09-04
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EG3 interview eCosCentric's Chairman
In a wide ranging interview with EG3, eCosCentric's Chairman
covers topics including comparison of eCos with other RTOS, eCos vs Linux, the benefits
of free software and more.
[more]
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2009-02-02
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eCosPro for the Cortex-M3
eCosCentric announces the availability of an architectural port of the eCosPro
real-time operating system to the ARM Cortex™-M3 processor.
[more]
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2008-10-02
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eXtremeDB Bundled with eCosPro
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]
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2008-04-08
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eCosPro for Altera Nios II 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]
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2007-07-09
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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."
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2006-11-09
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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".
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2006-11-01
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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.
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2006-10-12
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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.
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2006-10-11
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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.
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2006-08-30
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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.
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2006-07-13
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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.
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2006-06-16
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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.
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2006-04-07
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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.
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2006-04-01
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