SuperH MicroDev Platform Will be Shipped With Embedded Linux SDKs From TimeSys
PITTSBURGH and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- TimeSys
Corporation, a leader in Embedded Linux and Java development solutions, and
SuperH, Inc., the leading supplier of multimedia RISC CPU cores, announced a
broad strategic partnership in which SuperH has chosen TimeSys Linux as its
embedded Linux solution for SuperH CPU cores. As part of the partnership,
SuperH will begin shipping TimeSys Linux Standard Edition software development
kits (SDKs) with its SH4-202 MicroDev. Additionally, TimeSys and SuperH will
work together to develop an embedded Linux platform for SuperH's next-
generation line of SH-5 family of CPU cores. Together, the two companies are
providing licensees of the SuperH CPU cores, embedded hardware manufacturers
and their OEM customers with a ready-to-run embedded Linux distribution and
development tool suite for the SH-4 and SH-5 families of CPU cores that will
reduce development costs and time-to-market for digital consumer applications
such as set-top box, residential/SOHO gateways, automotive telematics systems,
industrial controllers and handheld multimedia devices.
"Our partnership with TimeSys provides our licensees and their OEM
customers with a solid Linux offering with which they can have total
confidence in developing and deploying advanced embedded applications on the
SH-4 and SH-5," said Rick Chapman, VP of Sales and Marketing at SuperH. "In
addition to the high-performance capabilities of TimeSys Linux and TimeSys
Linux/Real-Time, OEMs developing high-volume consumer electronics devices will
further benefit from TimeSys' royalty-free licensing and robust development
tools to reduce overall cost and time to market."
"SuperH's choice of our products as the embedded Linux development
solution for its SH-4 and SH-5 cores is an excellent validation of the
performance capabilities and cost saving benefits of our embedded Linux and
off-the-shelf software development kits," said TimeSys CEO Larry Weidman.
"Licensees of SuperH's microprocessor cores will benefit from being able to
provide their customers with a complete embedded Linux distribution and
development environment that has been tested and certified to work `out of the
box' with their hardware based on the SH-4 and SH-5 cores."
TimeSys Linux is a full Linux distribution that has been enhanced for use
in advanced embedded systems. TimeSys Linux is the lowest latency Linux
kernel available, is fully preemptible, offers unlimited process priorities,
and provides embedded developers with predictable control over the performance
of their embedded applications. TimeSys Linux/Real-Time transforms true Linux
into a single kernel real-time operating system (RTOS) that goes a step beyond
the abilities of TimeSys Linux GPL to meet the predictability and performance
requirements of mission-critical, "hard" real-time systems by providing
priority inversion avoidance mechanisms and high-resolution timers for fine-
grained scheduling. Additionally, unique, patent-pending TimeSys
Linux/Reservations technologies ensure system response and predictable
performance under extreme loads and overload conditions by reserving CPU
cycles and network packet resources for critical tasks.
"TimeSys Linux provides commercial RTOS performance and unique CPU and
network resource reservations capabilities that are unparalleled in the
embedded Linux space," said Jon Frosdick, Director of Software at SuperH.
"Developers can be sure that the embedded Linux solution built around our SH-4
and SH-5 cores will meet their broadest range of performance requirements
under any load. Providing this level of performance in a Linux solution for
our microprocessor cores will dramatically reduce the risk and cost of
developing and deploying advanced embedded applications."
SuperH CPU cores are targeted at consumer, automotive, telecom and
handheld multimedia appliance markets with specific emphasis on set-top box,
residential gateway, car information systems, modems, digital camera and
multimedia players. SuperH, Inc.'s products start with the 32-bit SH-4 RISC
CPU core with integrated vector FPU (floating point unit) and the upward
compatible SH-5 64-bit RISC CPU core which adds SIMD (single instruction
multiple data) capabilities. SuperH cores have been designed for high volume
embedded applications optimized for code density, power consumption and die
size; for example, the SH-4 integer CPU core is only 0.85mm2 in 0.13um CMOS.
Future generations will include the SH-6 superscalar 64-bit CPU core and the
multithreading SH-7.
TimeSys Linux SDKs are complete software development kits, including
TimeSys Linux, tested and certified device drivers that support all I/O
peripherals to the edge of the board, cross-platform GNU tool chains, a root
file system and full documentation. Professional Edition SDKs add TimeStorm
and TimeTrace, TimeSys' Windows and Linux-hosted development and event
tracing/debugging tools. Packaged in a complete, royalty-free product,
TimeSys Linux SDKs help reduce total cost of ownership, development risks, and
time-to-market of advanced embedded systems.
SuperH and TimeSys will showcase existing SH-4 embedded Linux products at
the Embedded Systems Conference West in San Francisco later this month, with a
demonstration of TimeSys Linux running on the SuperH 7750-SE01 SBC within the
SuperH booth (#2126).
Interested parties can contact products@timesys.com for more information.
About SuperH
SuperH, Inc. is a semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) licensing
company and is the leading supplier of multimedia RISC CPU cores to companies
building system-on-chip (SoC) products. SuperH, Inc. develops RISC CPU cores,
the SuperHyway Bus(TM) on-chip interconnect and software development tools.
The SuperH(TM) family today includes the 32-bit SH-4 and 64-bit SH-5 CPU cores
and is ideally suited to multimedia applications that require a single CPU
core executing a mix of general purpose code and DSP algorithms. SuperH CPU
cores are targeted at consumer, automotive, telecom and handheld multimedia
appliance markets with specific emphasis on set-top box, residential gateway,
car information systems, modems, digital camera and multimedia players.
Further information about SuperH, Inc. and SuperH products can be found at
http://www.superh.com.
SuperH(TM) is a trademark for products originally developed by Hitachi,
Ltd. and is owned by Renesas Technology Corporation.
About TimeSys Corporation
TimeSys is a pioneer and leader in Embedded Linux and Java for the
embedded systems market. Through complete software development kits design
engineers can leverage certified, hardware-specific, single API Linux
distributions, a complete range of Windows and Linux development tools and a
full range of performance enhancements to develop advanced embedded systems.
Its products support the full range of performance from non-real-time to
deterministic hard real-time, and add unique reservations technologies that
guarantee system response, even in overload conditions. TimeSys offers SDKs
for more than 50 target platforms supporting 7 processor architectures and 24
unique processors. TimeSys technologies are utilized in a wide variety of
industries and applications, from industrial/process control and consumer
electronics to military and avionics. For more information about TimeSys,
please visit http://www.timesys.com, send email to info@timesys.com or call
1-888-432-TIME.
TimeSys and TimeStorm are trademarks or registered trademarks of TimeSys
Corporation in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks referred to herein are the
property of their respective owners.
Media Contacts
For TimeSys For SuperH
Greg Holt David Pelavin
Greg.holt@timesys.com david.pelavin@superh.com
(412) 325-6348 (408) 955-0202
SOURCE TimeSys Corporation
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Related links:
http://www.timesys.com
CONTACT:
Greg Holt of TimeSys, +1-412-325-6348 or
Greg.holt@timesys.com; or David Pelavin of SuperH,
+1-408-955-0202 or david.pelavin@superh.com
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