Symbian Foundation Open Mobile Software Platform
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and NTT DOCOMO plan to unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ, and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. The companies along with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Vodafone plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. Membership of this [...]
IAR PowerPac for MSP430
IAR Systems recently launched PowerPac for MSP430. IAR PowerPac is a fully-featured real-time operating system (RTOS) combined with a high performance file system that is highly optimized for minimum memory consumption in both RAM and ROM. IAR PowerPac is tightly integrated with IAR Embedded Workbench, and includes sample projects and board support packages for ultra-low [...]
Wind River and Intel Team on Mobile Internet Device
Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND) is working with Intel Corporation to accelerate the Mobile Internet Device (MID) market segment. Wind River, with support from Intel, will develop an open, extensible Moblin-based Linux platform for the MID market. In addition, Wind River will introduce a commercial Moblin-based Linux platform specifically optimized for Intel Centrino Atom processor [...]
Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment
Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND) recently announced an infotainment platform based on an automotive-optimized commercial Linux that will significantly accelerate time-to-market of innovative applications for the in-vehicle infotainment segment of the automotive industry. Through Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment, developers, suppliers and manufacturers will be better positioned to bring to market new, compelling products [...]
VDC Releases Embedded Linux Research
According to a recently published research by Venture Development Corporation (VDC), embedded systems manufacturers and their suppliers are driving the development of open source and industry-specific standards around Linux as a means to increase availability of more robust underlying solution platforms and development environments. The new standards enable OEMs to reduce development costs and time-to-market [...]
Concurrent RedHawk Linux 5.1 RTOS
Concurrent (NASDAQ:CCUR) recently released version 5.1 of its RedHawk Linux real-time operating system. RedHawk Linux is widely used in time-critical applications in simulation and training, data acquisition, imaging, financial services and process control. RedHawk guarantees that a user-level application can respond to an external event in less than 30 microseconds. RedHawk Linux 5.1 dramatically improves [...]
eSOL eT-Kernel/Extended RTOS for i.MX31 Processor
eSOL recently announced the eT-Kernel/Extended realtime operating system (RTOS) coupled with the eBinder integrated development environment (IDE) for the i.MX31 multimedia applications processor from Freescale. eT-Kernel/Extended supports a process model and memory protection with a memory management unit (MMU), and is based on the latest T-Kernel/Standard Extension specifications standardized by the T-Engine Forum. The memory-protected [...]
AVIX-RT 32-bit AVIX32 RTOS
AVIX-RT recently introduced the AVIX32 32-bit RTOS for Microchip PIC32 MIPS based microcontrollers. The AVIX32 is especially strong in interrupt integration, an important aspect for the highly advanced nested interrupt architecture offered by PIC32. AVIX32 offers an interrupt model never disables hardware interrupts. As a result, an extra cycle is not needed. With the AVIX32, [...]
Linux Kernel Tuning for IP Version 6 Networking
By Madepogu Rajendra Prasad
Senior Software Engineer, HCL Technologies, NOIDA
Abstract
This paper describes the procedure for enhancing the Linux operating system with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking feature. This paper also describes the linux kernel with IPV6 networking support, booting linux desktop machines with new IPV6 network supportive kernel, and its graphical representation. This paper lists [...]
Porting Linux Kernel on PPC Target Boards
by Madepogu Rajendra Prasad, HCL Technologies
Abstract
This paper describes the procedure for porting embedded Linux to PPC based custom boards, which means making the operating system work on unfamiliar hardware. This paper also describes the procedure for setting up the development environment on host PC, obtaining kernel source, configuring the Linux kernel, how to cross compile [...]
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