[COMMERCIAL] eCosCentric announces C++ support for eCosPro

[Daniel Morris <danielm at eCosCentric dot com>]

   CAMBRIDGE, UK -- September 28, 2004 -- eCosCentric Limited,
   the eCos and RedBoot experts, today announced integration of the
   industry standard C++ run-time library GNU libstdc++ v3 within their
   range of eCosPro(TM) Developer's Kits. Initially targeting ARM &
   PowerPC architectures, the eCosPro C++ support package conforms
   to the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library specification.

   "Industry standard C++ run-time support is a key requirement for
   many teams, particularly those wishing to migrate from legacy
   proprietary RTOS environments to eCos." said Daniel Morris,
   Sales and Marketing Director at eCosCentric. "For the first time,
   eCos deployments can benefit from the full richness of the C++
   programming paradigm with a thread-safe run-time library that
   includes a Standard Template Library (STL), fully validated and
   supported."

   The provision of an industry standard C++ run-time library enables
   eCosCentric to support the more sophisticated and functionally
   complex embedded applications that typify products in the biometric,
   industrial control and communication segments. The swift migration
   of existing C++ based applications in these segments is critical
   to the successful roll-out of cost sensitive, high performance
   devices based on eCosPro.

   In keeping with the robust and stable eCosPro source base,
   the C++ run-time library has been extensively tested within
   eCosCentric's automated test farm infrastructure. In addition
   to the battery of over 20,000 eCosPro run-time tests, a suite of
   tests has been written to ensure coverage of the core elements of
   functionality found in the eCosPro C++ library implementation,
   namely:- algorithms, bitsets, complex numbers, I/O streams,
   I/O manipulation, iterators, lists, maps, memory allocation/new,
   strings and vectors. C++ exception handling and Run-Time Type
   Information (RTTI) are fully tested in addition to the GNU standard
   C++ library test suite.

   About eCosPro

   eCosPro is a stable, fully tested and supported version of the
   eCos open source real-time operating system and RedBoot bootstrap
   firmware.  The eCosPro Developer's Kit is a distribution of eCosPro
   which includes prebuilt eCos host tools and compiler toolchains,
   full documentation, an Eclipse-based integrated development
   environment to streamline eCos application development and a
   libstdc++ implementation for selected architectures.

   About eCosCentric

   Founded in April 2002, eCosCentric is the leading provider of
   eCos and RedBoot support, training, development and consulting
   services worldwide. Staffed by the original eCos creators and highly
   experienced embedded system and software engineers, eCosCentric
   provides complete solutions consisting of run-time systems and
   complementary host tools.

   For further details visit http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro.html
   or contact info@ecoscentric.com for pricing and availability.

References

   1. http://www.ecoscentric.com/
   2. http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro.html
   3. mailto:info@ecoscentric.com


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