Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS Deployment Soars To 200 Million Units.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Royalty-free 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. Used in Millions of Consumer and Networking Products Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that its ThreadX(R) RTOS has topped the 200 million unit mark in customer product deployments. At last year's Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Conference, in March 2004, Express Logic announced that HP's use of ThreadX in its digital cameras had pushed the deployment total over the 100 million unit mark. "We've now counted another 100 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 200 million unit mark in the last four years." The ThreadX RTOS is a small, fast, royalty-free RTOS used at the heart of deeply embedded 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 200 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 Customers
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Ink-Jet Printers 120,000,000 HP, Sharp
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Wireless Networking 30,000,000 Broadcom
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Baseboard Management Controllers 20,000,000 Intel, QLogic
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Digital TV 10,000,000 Sony, Pioneer
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Digital Cameras 8,000,000 HP, Pentax
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DVD Recorders/Players 5,000,000 Toshiba, Sharp
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Cell Phones 5,000,000 Samsung, Infineon
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Storage Devices 2,500,000 ST, Quantum
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DSL Modems 2,000,000 Conklin
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Medical Devices 700,000 Welch-Allyn
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Digital Radio 500,000 IBiquity
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Since 2001, Express Logic customers have shipped more than 200 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, as well as the ease of development and debugging 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, including the popular ThreadX(R) RTOS, the high-performance NetX(TM) 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. , the FileX(TM) 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 The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). . 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 is a registered trademark of Express Logic, Inc. NetX, FileX, 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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