Express Logic's ThreadX(R) RTOS Powers over 300 Million Devices; Volume Production from Broadcom, HP, Datang, Zoran, and Marvell Expands Widespread Use of ThreadX in Key Consumer and Industrial Markets.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ), today announced that product deployments of its popular ThreadX(R) RTOS now total in excess of 300 million units. Total deployment is the number of manufactured units for all products that incorporate the ThreadX RTOS. Led by HP's use of ThreadX in their line of ink-jet and All-In-One printers, and Broadcom's use of ThreadX in millions of their wireless networking See wireless network. SoCs, ThreadX has consistently ranked among the most widely deployed operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. for embedded devices. ThreadX has been used to power a wide variety of products, from entertaining consumer electronics to life-saving medical devices: ThreadX Product Category Deployments Representative Customers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless Networking 200,000,000 Broadcom, Intel, Marvell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ink-Jet Printers 175,000,000 HP, Sharp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Baseboard Management Controllers 25,000,000 Intel, QLogic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cell Phones 15,000,000 Samsung, Infineon, Datang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital TV 12,500,000 Sony, Pioneer, Zoran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Cameras 10,000,000 HP, Pentax, Zoran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DVD Recorders/Players 5,500,000 Toshiba, Sharp, Zoran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Storage Devices 2,700,000 ST, Quantum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DSL/Cable Modems 2,500,000 Conklin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Medical Devices 900,000 Welch-Allyn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Radio 700,000 IBiquity ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Probes 2 NASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the past year, we've seen another 100 million units added to our total deployments, largely due to the explosive growth of high-volume Bluetooth and 802.11 wireless networking applications that use ThreadX for RF communications," commented William E. Lamie, president of Express Logic. "Our actual count may in fact be much higher, since many of our customers do not make such volume shipment figures available." ThreadX is Express Logic's small, fast, royalty-free RTOS for demanding real-time applications. Its royalty-free business model makes ThreadX extremely attractive for high-volume devices. Equally important is the ease-of-use that enables ThreadX-powered devices to get to market on time and within budget, leading to high levels of success in the marketplace and the resulting high volumes. Lamie adds, "These volumes prove the rock-solid reliability of ThreadX. Without this high reliability, such production volume would never be economically achievable. We're very proud that ThreadX has proven so reliable that so many products have reached high-volume production success." Shipping and Availability ThreadX is available now for most popular 32-bit microprocessors, including ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, ARM Cortex M3, Freescale ColdFire The Freescale ColdFire is a 68k architecture microprocessor manufactured for embedded systems development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor sector of Motorola). , PowerPC, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. 32 4kx, 24kx, 34kx, Analog Devices Blackfin, and processors from ARC, Xilinx, Altera, Atmel, AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) , OKI, Cirrus, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Prices start at $12,500 for a royalty-free license. About Express Logic Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX(R) RTOS, the high-performance NetX(TM) TCP/IP stack, the FileX(R) embedded MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. compatible file system, and the USBX(TM) Host/Device USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. protocol stack. All products from Express Logic include full source-code and have no run-time royalties. For more information about Express Logic solutions, please visit www.expresslogic.com, call 1-888-THREADX, or email inquires to sales@expresslogic.com. ThreadX and FileX are registered trademarks, and NetX, CANX CANX Cancel CANX Canceled , USBX, preemption-threshold, picokernel, UDP UDP (uridine diphosphate): see uracil. (User Datagram Protocol) A protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used in place of TCP when a reliable delivery is not required. fast path technology, are trademarks of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. |
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