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]