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. [more]

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. [more]

Bonjour conformant Zeroconf networking added to eCosPro
eCosCentric brings the simplicity of Zeroconf networking to eCosPro, allowing dynamic device management and service discovery. [more]

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. [more]

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. [more]

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. [more]

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]

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. [more]

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]

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. [more]

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. [more]

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]

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]

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. [more]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]