LINUXLINK FROM TIMESYS SIMPLIFIES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.Timesys Corporation, Pittsburgh, provider of LinuxLink, the first commercial software development framework for building custom embedded Linux The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices. The modularity of the Linux kernel makes it well suited to embedded systems. based products, has announced LinuxLink 3.0 support for Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 FPGAs. Complementing this new Virtex support within LinuxLink, Timesys also announced an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. design service. Customers who want to focus on developing value-adding applications for their product can rely on Timesys to provide both a well-optimized hardware design and accompanying Linux platform support. With support for Xilinx's reference boards, LinuxLink customers can easily leverage the flexibility of Xilinx's FPGAs to develop custom hardware with comprehensive embedded Linux support. LinuxLink provides full support for a wide variety of peripherals including Ethernet, Serial and System ACE, enabling developers to achieve fast product design cycle. The combination of the LinuxLink framework from Timesys and the EDK EDK Embedded Development Kit EDK Emotiv Development Kit EDK European Death Knot (rock climbing) EDK Effective Date of Key (cryptography) EDK External Drift Kriging EDK Electric Dynamic Katathermometer development tools from Xilinx results in smooth hardware-software integration. The Xilinx EDK tools accelerate the design cycle by allowing a hardware design team to choose and customize from several IP blocks. Similarly, the Timesys LinuxLink framework accelerates software development by enabling the design, customization and integration of a custom Linux image matching the hardware platform. The combination of these development tools allows companies to create a complete custom Linux based product using the latest open source code at a very reasonable cost. "Timesys assists customers throughout the entire development process of an FPGA-based Linux platform," said Charlie Ashton, vice president of Business Development at Timesys. "Providing LinuxLink support for Virtex FPGAs along with FPGA design services allows us to deliver an end-to-end platform design approach that is well aligned with FPGAs from Xilinx." For a limited time, developers can obtain free LinuxLink access to quickly configure, build and evaluate embedded Linux on PowerPC-based Virtex processors by registering at https://linuxlink.timesys.com/register/factory. Developers should enter promotion code PRV See DVR. 4V5 when completing the online free trial registration form. Additional information about LinuxLink subscriptions for Xilinx processors can be found at http://www.timesys.com/xilinx. About Timesys Timesys is the provider of LinuxLink, a high-productivity software development framework for embedded Linux applications. The LinuxLink framework includes the Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. , cross-toolchain, application development IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. , an award-winning build system, called Factory, a vast library of middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a packages, software stacks (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. and libraries, documentation and expert technical support. LinuxLink enables development teams to consistently build and maintain a custom, open source embedded Linux platform through regularly updated Linux sources, proven middleware packages, and a scriptable GNU-based build environment. LinuxLink reduces the time, resources, risk and cost associated with building a product based on open source Linux. For more information, visit http://www.timesys.com or call 412/325-6362. About Xilinx Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic See PLD. solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com. |
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