eCos Realtime Operating Systems
eCos Realtime Operating Systems
eCos stands for embedded Configurable OS. It was begun by Cygnus. Then Red Hat, Inc., bought Cygnus and merged it into Red Hat. Now, eCosCentric Ltd. (UK), manages eCos. It is a royalty free, open source RTOS for embedded systems, and 50% of the RTOS market using in-house developed kernels. Highly configurable almost down to subroutine level: application-specific. All aspects of kernel configurable: over 300 possible configuration parameters. POSIX and Japanese uITRON compatibility layers, TCP/IP, PPP, SNMP, filesystems, and more. Full architecture simulator of many semiconductor firm evaluation boards.
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eCos Home - Was Cygnus eCos Sourceware page; Sourceware was Cygnus term for their free, open source software; then was Red Hat page. This was/is the page where open source aspects of eCos are arranged. Descriptions, documents, fora, downloads.
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eCos Porting Guide - Tutorial to get OS up and running on new hardware; the first task when using any new OS. By Anthony J. Massa, Embedded.com.
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Embedded Software Development with eCos - By Anthony J. Massa; Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0130354732, with CD. How to build low-cost, royalty-free embedded systems; covers architecture, installing, configuring, coding, debugging, bootstrapping, porting, other open source software components to ext
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eCosCentric Ltd. - Commercial provider, maintainer of eCos RTOS; no royalty or license fee, highly configurable (300+ parameters) for embedded systems, runs on most major processors; founded 2002; software, consulting, development, resources. [Open Source]
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eCos - Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.
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