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[COMMERCIAL] MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosPro Developer's Kit for microMIPSâ
- From: Daniel Morris <danielm at eCosCentric dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 07:37:47 +0100
- Subject: [COMMERCIAL] MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosPro Developer's Kit for microMIPSâ
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Media Contact: Jen Bernier MIPS Technologies +1 408 530-5178
[1]jenb@mips.com Daniel Morris eCosCentric Ltd. +44 1223 245 571
[2]danielm@ecoscentric.com
MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosProÂ
Developer's Kit for microMIPSâ
Popular Open-Source RTOS Comes to MIPS32Â M14Kâ Core Family
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, UK - May 4, 2011 - MIPS
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
home, networking and mobile applications, and eCosCentric Limited,
the eCos and RedBoot experts, today announced that eCosCentric
has ported its eCosPro open source real-time operating
system (RTOS) to the microMIPSâ instruction set architecture
(ISA). eCosCentric has also made available its eCosPro Developer's
Kit for the MIPS32Â M14Kâ and M14Kcâ cores, which are based
on the microMIPS ISA. This builds on support for other MIPS cores
already offered by eCosCentric.
With the robust, feature-rich and fully-supported eCosPro RTOS
for the M14K and M14Kc cores, users can choose from a rich set of
supported peripherals, network stacks and file systems. They can
become productive quickly with the full Eclipse-based development
environment that packages the RTOS. Since the eCosPro Developer's
Kits for MIPS cores were built and tested using standard MIPS
reference designs, engineers can start building applications within
a few minutes.
"The ecosystem of third party support for our microMIPS ISA and M14K
cores continues to grow, and we are excited to offer our licensees
who are designing products around these technologies access to
the highly popular eCosPro RTOS. We are seeing interest in the
combination of eCosPro and microMIPS among our customers for a
range of cost-, speed- and resource-constrained applications," said
Art Swift, vice president of marketing and business development,
MIPS Technologies.
According to Alex Schuilenburg, managing director/CEO at
eCosCentric, "We are pleased to add to our existing support for
MIPS cores by porting eCosPro to the microMIPS ISA. Existing
eCos users will be able to migrate quickly to eCosPro on the new
microMIPS architecture, leveraging their existing application and
system design knowledge. They also have the assurance of guaranteed
commercial support direct from the original designers of the RTOS."
Availability
The eCosPro Developer's Kit for the M14K and M14Kc cores and
microMIPS on the SEADTM-3 reference board is available directly
from eCosCentric, with packages of support to suit teams of
varying sizes. eCosCentric can also tailor-build a run-time to meet
customer requirements. Visit [3]www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro.shtml,
contact [4]info@ecoscentric.com or visit stand #2319 at the
[5]Embedded Systems Conference - Silicon Valley 2011 for more
information.
About the M14K Cores and microMIPS
The M14K and M14Kc cores are the first MIPS32-compatible cores that
also execute the new microMIPS ISA, achieving high performance
of 1.5 DMIPS/MHz with an advanced level of code compression. On
these cores, the microMIPS ISA maintains 98% of MIPS32
performance while reducing code size by up to 35%, translating
to significant silicon cost savings. For more information, visit
[6]www.mips.com/products/architectures/micromips/ or contact
[7]info@mips.com.
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
with commercial support and advice, prebuilt eCos host tools,
compiler tool chains, full documentation, Eclipse-based integrated
development environment to streamline eCos application development
(including graphical debugger), C++ runtime (including Standard
Template Library) as well as profiling, code coverage and memory
allocation debugging tools. Third party components certified with
eCosPro include a Java virtual machine, an in-memory database,
graphical user interfaces, Bluetooth, CANopen, and USB 2.0 compliant
host, device and OTG stacks and flash file-systems.
About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS) is a leading provider of
industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital
home, networking and mobile applications. The MIPS architecture
powers some of the world's most popular electronic products,
including broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer
devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital
set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit
microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers
from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide. For
more information, contact (408) 530-5000 or visit [8]www.mips.com.
Follow MIPS on [9]Facebook, [10]LinkedIn, [11]YouTube, [12]RSS and
[13]Twitter.
MIPS, MIPS32, M14K, M14Kc, microMIPS, SEAD and MIPS-Based are
trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and
other countries of MIPS Technologies, Inc. eCos, eCosCentric and
eCosPro are registered trademarks of eCosCentric Limited. All
other trademarks referred to herein are the property of their
respective owners.
References
1. mailto:jenb@mips.com
2. mailto:danielm@ecoscentric.com
3. http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro.shtml
4. mailto:info@ecoscentric.com
5. http://esc.eetimes.com/siliconvalley/?cid=exhibitormktg
6. http://www.mips.com/products/architectures/micromips/
7. mailto:info@mips.com
8. http://www.mips.com/
9. http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIPS-Technologies-Inc/45674251295
10. http://www.linkedin.com/companies/mips-technologies
11. http://www.youtube.com/user/MIPSTechnologies
12. http://www.mips.com/rss/rss.dot
13. http://twitter.com/MIPSGuru
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eCosCentric - The eCos and RedBoot experts
Tel: +44 1223 245 571 - info@eCosCentric.com
DDI: +44 1269 591 171 - danielm@eCosCentric.com
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