Anthony J. Massa, author of a new book on eCos, provides this brief introduction to his book for embedded developers in the LinuxDevices.com community . . .

“My new book, Embedded Software Development with eCos (ISBN 0-13-035473-2; Prentice Hall PTR), is the quickest way to get started using eCos, the open-source and royalty-free Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos). Basically, the book guides you through all of the steps necessary to setup a complete embedded software development environment — all the tools necessary to tackle any project. The examples give you the baseline understanding to begin using eCos in your own projects . . .”

“Embedded Linux is a great solution for many applications. However, in some cases where every byte and millisecond count, embedded Linux may not cut the mustard. For these situations, eCos is a very viable alternative solution and offers quite an extensive feature set to meet the needs of any embedded device . . .”

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