Intel Acquires Wind River Systems for $884 Million
Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River Systems common stock for $11.50 per share in cash (total of about $884 million). Wind River is a leading software vendor in embedded devices and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel and continue with its current business model of supplying leading-edge products and services to its [...]
RTXC RTOS Supports Freescale MPC55xx Microcontrollers
The RTXC RTOS, from Quadros Systems, now supports the MPC55xx series of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) from Freescale Semiconductor. Developers can now combine the efficiency, flexibility, and scalability of the RTXC software family with the low-cost, high performance MPC55xx family. The RTXC Quadros RTOS was ported to the MPC5534 using Freescale CodeWarrior for MPC55xx v2.3 toolchain. [...]
RoweBots DSPnano 2.0 and Unison 4.0 Real-time Operating Systems
RoweBots Research introduced DSPnano v2 and Unison v4 real-time operating systems. The new ultra-tiny embedded-Linux compatible RTOSes enable Linux and POSIX compatible development of Renesas’ R8C, M16C, and R32C/100 microcontroller (MCU). Unison V4 and DSPnano V2 are hosted on Windows XP and Vista for x86 platforms. DSPnano and Unison V4 will begin shipping immediately, with [...]
eXtremeDB Embedded Database for Wind River VxWorks 653 RTOS
McObject has ported eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system for Wind River VxWorks 653 real-time operating system (RTOS) for controlling complex ARINC 653 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems. eXtremeDB streamlines development of mission critical aerospace and defense applications and delivers reliable, predictable, and fast database capabilities to VxWorks 653.
RTXC Quadros Real-time Operating Systems Support ARM1136, ARM1176 Cores
Quadros Systems announced that their RTXC Quadros Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS) now support ARM1136 and ARM1176 cores from ARM. The RTXC Quadros RTOS offers a small footprint and excellent efficiency while ARM11 processors deliver high performance and low energy consumption. The combination of RTXC Quadros RTOS and ARM11 processors is ideal for consumer electronics, GPS [...]
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