Boston, MA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Ampro Computers today announced the immediate availability of a certified, production-quality TimeSys Linux software development kit (SDK) for its MIPS32-based EnCore M3 module. The EnCore M3 is an embedded processor module featuring the AMD Alchemy Solutions Au1500 processor with a 32-bit 66MHz PCI bus interface, dual 10/100BaseT… Ethernet ports, EIDE, serial, parallel, and USB ports, and EJTAG connection for debugging.

The EnCore M3 is initially supplied with a QuickStart Kit which includes RAM and a reference baseboard with standardized connectors for easy peripheral connection. Each QuickStart Kit now includes a certified TimeSys Linux SDK, providing a complete package with OS, device drivers, GNU development tools, Windows (Cygwin) and Linux workstation development environments, a Root File System (RFS) with applications, utilities, and libraries, and a certified Bootloader. In addition, the QuickStart Kit includes evaluation copies of TimeSys Performance Modules to easily add the advanced real-time and reservations capabilities of TimeSys Linux/Real-Time, TimeSys Linux/CPU and/or TimeSys Linux/NET.

Additional Linux tools optionally available include: TimeStorm, a Windows-hosted IDE with cross-platform capabilities; TimeTrace, a Windows-hosted target platform for event tracing, timing analysis and visualization tool; and TimeWiz, a Windows-hosted real-time analysis and simulation tool. These tools integrate seamlessly with the TimeSys Linux SDK for the EnCore M3 module and are available from TimeSys.

Ampro's EnCore M3 QuickStart Kit sells for $995 and is available immediately from Ampro.

 
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