Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS Deployment Soars To 100 Million Units; Royalty-free RTOS Used in Millions of Consumer and Networking Products.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers electronicaUSA 2004 Booth #1525 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (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 its ThreadX(R) RTOS has topped the 100 million unit mark in product deployments. In December, 2003, Express Logic announced that HP's use of ThreadX in its inkjet printers A printer that propels droplets of ink directly onto the medium. Today, almost all inkjet printers produce color. Low-end inkjets use three ink colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), but produce a composite black that is often muddy. had pushed the deployment total over the 50 million unit mark. "We've now counted another 50 million ThreadX-based products, with 35 million in the wireless networking See wireless network. and consumer electronics sectors," noted John Carbone John Carbone is an Australian football (soccer) player who played a number of years in the National Soccer League for Perth Glory and the Brisbane Strikers. , vice president, marketing for Express Logic. "Combined with HP's shipment rate of 15 million printers per quarter, this brings our ThreadX deployment total past the 100 million unit mark in just the last three years." The ThreadX RTOS is a small, fast, royalty-free RTOS used at the heart of deeply embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. products in many sectors of the electronics industry, including consumer electronics, networking, office automation, medical equipment, and industrial automation. With over 1,000 customer designs based on ThreadX, and over 100 million deployments, ThreadX is one of the most widely deployed RTOSes in the world. Express Logic estimates that the number of deployments of the ThreadX RTOS can be divided among the following product types:
Product Category ThreadX Representative
Deployments Customer
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Ink-Jet Printers 65,000,000 HP
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Wireless Networking 20,000,000 Broadcom
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Baseboard Management Controllers 10,000,000 QLogic
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Digital Cameras 5,000,000 Pentax
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Cell Phones 2,000,000 Infineon
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Storage Devices 1,500,000 Quantum
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DSL Modems 1,000,000 Conklin
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Medical Devices 500,000 Welch-Allyn
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Digital Radio 250,000 IBiquity
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Since 2001, Express Logic customers have shipped more than 100 million units, and most of these are still in service. This large number of deployments indicates that Express Logic's customers enjoy significant success developing, selling, shipping and supporting ThreadX-based products. Much of their success comes thanks to the high reliability, bullet-proof stability, and ease of development and debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. of the ThreadX RTOS. The royalty-free pricing of ThreadX RTOS makes it ideal for high-volume, low-margin products, where royalties would introduce significant additional cost. Equally important, its ease-of-use cuts development time, enabling electronic product manufacturers to penetrate their highly competitive market faster. About Express Logic Headquartered in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. , including the popular ThreadX RTOS, the high-performance TCP/IP stack An implementation of the TCP/IP communications protocol. Network architectures designed in layers, such as TCP/IP, OSI and SNA, are called "stacks." See TCP/IP, OSI model and protocol stack. NetX(TM), and the 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. file system FileX(TM). 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. |
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