Boise, ID — (press release excerpt) — RidgeRun Inc. today announced the availability of their DSPLinux Software Development Kit (SDK) release 1.0 for embedded Linux developers. This release, incorporating the Linux 2.4 kernel, is optimized for embedded devices and building the applications which run on those devices.

RidgeRun's SDK includes the standard GNU development tools and the powerful Appliance Simulator, which allows the complete simulation of an appliance on a desktop PC running Linux. This can be used by a wide variety of Linux developers for early application development, independent of specific hardware target platforms. The Appliance Simulator allows developers to run the DSPLinux OS within a simulation environment that models a real embedded device. Developers can create, debug, and fully simulate a host of embedded appliances, all before target hardware development systems are required. Once the hardware target has been selected, cross compile tools simplify the conversion from the simulation environment to the actual appliance.

The DSPLinux SDK contains advanced Code Compression Technology which delivers better than 2:1 compression for optimization of ROM and RAM usage. In addition, the SDK includes powerful APIs and support code for GStreamer, a leading Linux Open Source streaming media framework, as well as over a dozen Open Source packages that can be used to develop Internet-connected devices.

DSPLinux SDK release 1.0 is available for $5,000 per developer seat, which includes one year of updates and installation support. A board support package (BSP) for the Texas Instruments TMS320DSC21 platform will be added in June, which will provide target software and cross-development tools for that DSP+ARM processor.

 
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