eCosPro Industrial Strength RTOS for the Raspberry Pi announced

eCosPro Industrial Strength RTOS for the Raspberry Pi announced

[Paul Beskeen]

The eCosPro 4.1 press release referenced the upcoming eCosPro Raspberry
Pi port. For people interested in further details, see the earlier RPi
specific press release below.

We currently have the port running over a battery of RPi models in the
eCosPro testfarm. I's not yet ready for release, but we are
systematically knocking down various issues and it's getting close.

Regards, Paul.
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NUREMBERG, GERMANY -- March 14, 2017
http://www.ecoscentric.com/news/press-170314.shtml

eCosCentric Limited, the eCos® experts, today announced the upcoming
release of the eCosPro® real-time operating system to the Raspberry Pi®
family of maker, educational and prototyping boards. eCosPro delivers
deterministic, real-time performance on the Raspberry Pi 3, Pi 2, Pi 1,
Pi Zero and Pi Zero Wireless boards, as well as the Pi Compute Modules 1
and 3.

"eCosPro provides a small footprint real-time operating system
environment ideal for time critical control systems. Used with the ultra
low cost Raspberry Pi range of single board computers it provides cost
effective full feature performance ideal for IoT and M2M applications",
said Jack Lang, Co-founder Raspberry Pi and member of the Board at
eCosCentric.

Since their launch, the Raspberry Pi models have brought low-cost,
feature-rich and expandable hardware to the market which has captured
the imagination of makers, educators and designers. The diverse range of
readily available expansion cards and accessories can be used as
building blocks to swiftly turn hardware concepts into working prototypes.

eCosPro eases the transition between prototyping on Raspberry Pi boards
to deployment of the final embedded product. It enables embedded
applications to be swiftly moved to hardware based around Pi Compute
Modules, or ported to more specialised custom hardware designs. This
might include lower cost, highly integrated designs based on Cortex-M
class SoCs; or designs that require more flexibility in terms of memory
and peripherals, form factor, environmental rating, power consumption,
performance and so forth.

As well as architectural ports of eCosPro to the Cortex-A53, Cortex-A7
and ARM11 based Broadcom SoCs, drivers are written for key peripherals,
including UART, GPIO, I2C, SPI, SD, Ethernet & WiFi. eCosCentric's USB
host and device stacks bring simple connectivity to the platform,
without the need to license additional third-party stacks. eCosPro's
Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) support has been extended to the
quad-core Cortex-A53 based Raspberry Pi 3 series, as well as the
quad-core Cortex-A7 powered Raspberry Pi 2 models. With its real-time
features, depth of device coverage and breadth of support across the
range of boards, eCosCentric are confident that eCosPro will be the most
comprehensive RTOS offering available for the Raspberry Pi.

Embedded developers are provided with a productive, conventional cross
development environment, available for both Linux and Windows hosts. C
and C++ applications are configured, built and debugged using eCosPro's
Eclipse-based development environment. eCosCentric's Eclipse plugins
provide a direct connection to the Raspberry Pi target during
development via JTAG-based hardware debug, or alternatively, over a
serial channel using the RedBoot debug agent running on the Raspberry Pi.

In contrast to general purpose operating systems for the Raspberry Pi,
eCosPro is a light-weight multi-threaded real-time operating system,
delivering reduced latency with bounded response times. eCosPro's
resource requirements are a fraction of those demanded by a
desktop/general purpose OS, maximising the RAM resources available to
applications. Direct boot from SD card provides an instant-on capability
enabling embedded applications to be responsive within milliseconds.
eCos is portable across a wide range of embedded architectures and
microcontrollers, so applications prototyped using eCosPro on Raspberry
Pi can be readily ported to other targets.

Visit eCosCentric's Stand (161) in Hall 4 at Embedded World this week to
see a live demonstration of digital signage, built with commodity
hardware, using eCosPro running on the Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless.

eCosPro Starter Kits for Raspberry Pi will be made available in Q2,
free-of-charge for non-commercial use.

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 & advice, prebuilt eCos host tools, compiler tool chains, full
documentation, Eclipse-based integrated development environment to
streamline eCos application development, C++ runtime (including Standard
Template Library) as well as profiling, code coverage and memory
allocation debugging tools. Middleware components qualified with eCosPro
include a Java virtual machine, an in-memory database, graphical user
interfaces, security libraries, CANopen and USB compliant host & device
stacks and flash file systems.

For further details visit http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro.shtml or
contact eCosCentric.

About eCosCentric

Founded in April 2002, eCosCentric is the leading provider of eCos
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, complementary host tools and certified
third party applications.

eCos, eCosCentric and eCosPro are registered trademarks of eCosCentric
Limited. Raspberry Pi is a registered trademark of the Raspberry Pi
Foundation. ARM and Cortex are registered trademarks of ARM Limited (or
its subsidiaries) in the EU and/or elsewhere. All rights reserved. All
other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.