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eCosCentric: eCos Is Stable and Ready to Deploy

By Edward J. Correia

October 1, 2003 — "The main value we're providing is a stable eCos release," said Alex Schuilenburg, CEO of eCosCentric Ltd., speaking of the eCosPro Developer's Kit, released in early September. The kit bundles the latest eCos POSIX-compliant kernel and RedBoot boot loader, prebuilt tools for Linux or Windows hosts, a new PPP stack, installer and technical support. An Eclipse-based IDE is planned for November.

According to Schuilenburg, the release marks a major milestone for eCosCentric, the company formed by four of eCos' original developers unemployed when Red Hat dropped the project in May 2002. "This is the first fully tested version of eCos that is targeted at professional developers and organizations looking to use eCos in their products." Schuilenburg claimed that testing was rigorous. The initial eCosPro release will target designs based on ARM, ColdFire, IA32, PowerPC and SuperH processors. ECos can be configured to fit in devices with extremely limited resources.

Also significant is the PPP (Point to Point Protocol) stack, which Schuilenburg claimed to be the first for eCos. This permits devices to gain Internet access via dial-up connection and lets developers dial into remote devices to perform maintenance and diagnostics where physical access might be difficult or impossible. "We have some eCos-based devices that are buried under about a mile and a half of Arctic ice," he said. Schuilenburg said the stack also will be released as open source.

Available now, eCosPro Developer's Kit costs US$4,000 per company per quarter, including the royalty-free RTOS and support for an unlimited number of projects and developers. Schuilenburg said that when released later in November, the Eclipse-based C/C++ development tools will first target ColdFire, followed by either PowerPC or ARM.

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