Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corp. and Cyclone Microsystems today announced a partnership in which TimeSys Linux was named as the exclusive Linux distribution for Cyclone's CompactPCI Intelligent I/O Controllers. This partnership combines Cyclone's high bandwidth I/O controllers with TimeSys' enhanced performance Linux enabling designers to deliver complex solutions at reduced… time-to-market and development costs.

In the coming months, TimeSys and Cyclone will release several complete solutions for the XScale based CompactPCI Intelligent I/O Controllers. These bundled 'out of the box' solutions will provide system designers a quick and efficient solution path to implement complex applications such as satellite communications, AIN processing, and video networking. Cyclone's CompactPCI Intelligent I/O Controllers are ideal for telecommunications and industrial equipment requiring an industrial architecture, increased performance and high bandwidth throughput.

“The increasing bandwidth requirements of OEM designers for telecommunications, networking and control applications have made higher throughput I/O processing a key enabler of system performance,” said Cyclone's President Joel Zackin. “TimeSys' expertise with optimizing performance with Linux, with their innovations in network and processor reservation technologies, add incredible value to our I/O controllers. Customers will enjoy the direct benefit of enabling Linux for applications, while surpassing the performance advantages they had with proprietary solutions.”

“We're providing designers with a complete Linux solution for their critical applications that surpasses performance requirements of proprietary real-time operating systems at much lower entry and life-cycle costs, all in a more easily adopted environment,” said TimeSys CEO Larry Weidman. “Developers using our joint solutions will see the immediate benefits of reduced cost for development, realize a faster time to market, and recognize a longer product life cycle because of the open nature of our Linux software, real-time and network reservation extensions.”

The TimeSys Linux solution provides developers with a full suite of tools to enhance the application SDK for solid delivery as a solid supported product, including an end-to-end embedded Linux development environment, a complete Linux distribution with over 190 Linux packages and utilities, the industry's lowest latency, fully preemptible Linux kernel, Linux cross- platform and board hosted GNU toolchains, complete 'to-the-edge of the board' set of certified device drivers, user and API documentation, and loadable kernel modules that convert TimeSys Linux into a fully featured Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). Additional performance enhancing loadable kernel modules, TimeSys Linux/CPU and TimeSys Linux/Net, provide patent-pending capabilities for dynamic load handling and system overload protection. TimeSys brings all the Linux tools needed for OEM's to create new value, such as 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.

 
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