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eCos is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded applications. The highly configurable nature of eCos allows the operating system to be customised to precise application requirements, delivering the best possible run-time performance and an optimised hardware resource footprint. A thriving net community has grown up around the operating system ensuring on-going technical innovation and wide platform support.
For further information concerning eCos, please refer to the about eCos page. eCos is not related to the Linux operating system.
eCos news
| November 21, 2008 | ColdFire hardware support
eCosCentric has contributed architectural support for eCos on ColdFire processors from their eCosPro offering. The contribution includes platform-level support for the M5272C3 evaluation board, plus ethernet and serial drivers. The code is only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| November 03, 2008 | Cortex-M3 hardware support
eCosCentric has contributed architectural support for eCos on the ARM Cortex-M3 core. The contribution includes platform-level support for the STM3210E-EVAL evaluation board, STM32 flash and serial drivers, plus Linux- and Cygwin-hosted GNU toolchains. The code is only available from the CVS repository at this time. See the contribution announcement for further details. |
| October 08, 2008 | Framebuffer infrastructure
eCosCentric has contributed framebuffer device infrastructure from their eCosPro offering to eCos. The code and documentation are only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| August 09, 2008 | ADC infrastructure
eCosCentric has contributed ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) device infrastructure from their eCosPro offering to eCos. The code and documentation are only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| July 11, 2006 | Host tools
eCosCentric has generated new unsupported snapshot builds of the eCos host tools that workaround an exception handling issue with Cygwin 1.5.19 and 1.5.20. Download and installation instructions are available. |
| April 20, 2005 | I2C infrastructure
eCosCentric has contributed I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) bus infrastructure from their eCosPro offering to eCos. The code and documentation are only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| August 24, 2004 | SPI infrastructure
eCosCentric has contributed SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) bus infrastructure from their eCosPro offering to eCos. The code and documentation are only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| April 14, 2004 | PPP stack
eCosCentric has contributed a PPP stack based on FreeBSD source code. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the existing FreeBSD TCP/IP stack. |
Earlier news items are available in the eCos news archive.
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