Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo and Metrowerks have announced a powerful and easy-to-use tool suite designed specifically to increase software development productivity targeting the Motorola MCF5272C3 development board in low cost networking designs. Lineo offers two embedded RTOS solutions — Embedded Linux and RTXC. For small (<20 kB) memory footprint, hard real-time applications including networking, Lineo's RTXC is used in premier applications like General Motor's OnStar and Motorola's G2.5 and G3 cell phones, and in high performance modem chipsets. For Embedded Linux solutions, Lineo offers its uCLinux RTOS for both soft and hard real-time configurations, the only Linux available for high volume / low cost processors lacking an on-chip MMU. Lineo's embedded engineers working closely with the Metrowerks team have developed an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for both RTXC and uCLinux RTOS'. The IDE — including kernel-aware debug — provides unparalleled, intuitive GUI development tools for the entire Motorola ColdFire family of embedded processors, including the MCF5272 processors. Metrowerks' newly released CodeWarrior for 68K/ColdFire Embedded Systems 2.5 tools feature a state-of-the-art project manager and build system, code browser, and a code navigation system that allows developers to write solid code and speed up compile-build-debug cycles. Because CodeWarrior's development environment is tightly integrated with Lineo's RTXC and uCLinux, developers will spend less time navigating between tools and more time generating code. The solutions include a BSP for the MCF5272C3 board containing serial and Ethernet drivers, as well as, a Web server demonstration application.

 
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