MontaVista Expands Development Toolbox for Hard Hat Linux 2.0; Powerful Configuration and Scaling Tools Highlighted at ESC Spring.Business Editors/High Tech Writers Embedded Systems Conference SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2000 MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced that the latest release of its flagship product, Hard Hat(TM) Linux(R) 2.0 Professional Edition, features a comprehensive suite of development tools designed to streamline development, debugging and deployment of embedded applications. To address the needs of resource-limited, deeply embedded systems, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 introduces revolutionary system scaling and configuration tools, as well as performance analysis, source-level debug, and other utilities to speed embedded applications to market. To help developers right-size the Linux kernel and populate embedded Linux deployment images with an optimal file system, MontaVista introduces the Target Configuration Tool (TCT TCT The Capital Times (Madison, WI newspaper) TCT Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics TCT The Coroner's Toolkit TCT Trans Canada Trail TCT Tcl Core Team TCT Tsukuba College of Technology (Japan) ). This GUI-based utility enables developers to select only needed modules and drivers for inclusion in kernel builds, allowing bootable footprints scaled below 500 Kbytes. Using TCT avoids the drudgery of hand editing configuration and make files while managing dependencies among components. TCT similarly lets developers choose pre-built packages for inclusion in an embedded file system, including system binaries and data as needed. Once developers have a correctly configured kernel and trimmed file system, MontaVista's new Library Optimizer Tool analyzes application use of shared libraries and prunes away unneeded library code and symbols, yielding smaller, more efficient deployment images. "In Hard Hat Linux 2.0, MontaVista combines its extensive expertise in embedded systems development with its dynamic participation in the Open Source community," states Sheila Baker, MontaVista vice president of marketing. "With the tools and capabilities in this release, we can address the needs of both demanding embedded developers and of Linux hackers building and deploying embedded applications." With this release, MontaVista also expands support for a variety of open source tools retargeted for embedded cross development. These cross tools include versions of the Linux Trace Tool (kernel performance and execution analyzer), cbrowser, cflow, cprof, and cscope (C code analysis tools), DDD DDD Direct Distance Dialing DDD Digital/Digital/Digital (audio CD format, recording/mixing/mastering) DDD Degenerative Disc Disease DDD Domain Driven Design DDD Data Display Debugger (GNU Project) (a graphical debugger interface), and Code Crusader (a semi-open integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment ). Hard Hat Linux 2.0 also continues to leverage the ubiquitous open source GNU tools, including the gcc/g++ family of compilers/assemblers and cross versions of the GDB (programming, tool) GDB - GNU debugger. The FSF's source-level debugger for C, C++ and other languages. Developed by many people but most recently Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>, Stu Grossman <grossman@cygnus.com> and John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus. source-level debugger for kernel and application debugging. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 also features support for hardware-based source-level debug of the Linux kernel and device drivers with in-circuit emulation and run-control devices like Abatron's BDM and JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group tools. These and other tools in Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition host on a wide array of development platforms, including Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. , Yellow Dog Linux Yellow Dog Linux (often abbreviated YDL) is a free software, open-source Linux distribution for Power Architecture hardware. It was first released in 1999 for the Apple Inc. Macintosh. , Suse, Mandrake mandrake, plant of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), the source of a narcotic much used during the Middle Ages as a pain-killer and perhaps the subject of more superstition than any other plant. , TurboLinux, Solaris, under VMWare on Windows, and natively on Hard Hat Linux for x86. Hard Hat Linux tools also target the broadest array of CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. architectures and board and system-level platforms of any embedded Linux development solution, including PowerPC, IA-32/x86, 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. , StrongARM, and SH. Availability The tools described above are included in Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition, available direct from MontaVista and MontaVista distribution channels worldwide as a product subscription that encompasses the MontaVista Hard Hat Linux kernel, utilities, development tools and one year of technical support. Also available for Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition are expanded add-on capabilities, including packages for embedded Java, High-Availability, legacy 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. porting and emulation, and embedded GUI development. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition and the tools described above will be available the last week of April 2001, with additional functionality within 30 days via on-line distribution. Come experience Hard Hat Linux 2.0 at ESC Spring in booth No. 122, from April 10-12, 2001, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. For more information about Hard Hat Linux and MontaVista Software Inc., please call 408-328-9200 or visit the Web site www.mvista.com. About MontaVista Software, Inc. MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems software solutions for embedded systems. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (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. pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal offering is the Linux operating system and cross development tools tailored for embedded systems. MontaVista products include Hard Hat(TM) Linux(R), a standard off-the-shelf binary distribution of Linux for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS and other microprocessor architectures. Hard Hat Linux offers developers a family of open source solutions for embedded design, with targeted offerings for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to thin-client and edge applications. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by leading investors such Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co WR Hambrecht + Co. is a full service investment bank with headquarters in New York and San Francisco. It specializes in using its unique auction process called OpenIPO to compete with the traditional methods of larger and more established banks. ., and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit http://www.mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200. Note to Editors: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. Intel, Pentium and XScale are trademarks of Intel Corporation. StrongARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. PowerPC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. |
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