Boise, ID — (press release excerpt) — RidgeRun, Inc. today announced that they have successfully developed a portable Bluetooth Stack for Linux. The company has extended the Axis Bluetooth stack for Linux to the ARM and MIPS platforms. RidgeRun needed to develop Bluetooth support for its DSPLinux product, so the company decided to modify the Axis Bluetooth stack to be portable and give the result back… to the Open Source community.

Bluetooth wireless technology is a new low-cost radio technology that is designed to eliminate the need for physical cables to connect a wide range of products, including cellular phones, PCs, headphones, audio equipment, and many more. It has unprecedented industry support, with over 1,800 companies in the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, including all of the leading players in the telecommunications and computing industries. According to Cahners In-Stat group, the Bluetooth market will grow from 11.5 million units shipped in 2000 to 671.8 million in 2005.

RidgeRun, Inc. is focused on bringing the reliability and flexibility of Linux to embedded Internet appliances based on DSPs (digital signal processors). RidgeRun's DSPLinux is an operating system that leverages the power of Texas Instruments' OMAP and DSP architectures to deliver the performance leading platform for wireless, broadband and multimedia appliances using DSPs. These include mobile phones; digital cameras, audio and video players, automotive systems, set-top boxes, home
networking gateways, and PDAs. RidgeRun has extensive experience developing world-class embedded systems, fault-tolerant software, and high performance Linux solutions.

 
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