MIPS Technologies and eCosCentric Announce Availability of eCosPro(R) Developer's Kit for microMIPS(TM)
May 04 2011 - 8:00AM
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 microMIPS™ instruction set architecture (ISA). eCosCentric
has also made available its eCosPro Developer's Kit for the MIPS32®
M14K™ and M14Kc™ 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 SEAD™-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 www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro.shtml,
contact info@ecoscentric.com or visit stand #2319 at the 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
www.mips.com/products/architectures/micromips/ or contact
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 www.mips.com.
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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.
CONTACT: Jen Bernier-Santarini
MIPS Technologies, Inc.
+1 408-530-5178
jenb@mips.com
Daniel Morris
eCosCentric Ltd.
+44 1223 245 571
danielm@ecoscentric.com
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