LynuxWorks expects to ship a new development tool in two weeks that will support both its embedded Linux distribution and its proprietary RTOS. Luminosity will be based on the Eclipse framework, and will support Solaris and Linux hosts, along with all target architectures supported by BlueCat Linux and LynxOS.

LynuxWorks first announced development tools based on Eclipse in March, and demonstrated them at the main Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Francisco later that month.

Other commercial embedded Linux vendors selling Eclipse-based IDEs include TimeSys, MontaVista, and Wind River. Wind River's offering is notably similar, in that it supports “any Linux” as well as Wind River's proprietary RTOS VxWorks, providing a unified development environment for companies using both or migrating from one to the other.

LynuxWorks has long marketed the real-time upgrade path provided by its proprietary OS, which features binary compatibility layers for Linux, VxWorks, and other embedded OSes. A unified development environment for both LynuxWorks embedded OSes should help this strategy.

Luminosity

According to LynuxWorks, Luminosity provides a simplified, flexible development platform aimed mainly at aerospace, telecommunications, and military applications — markets where LynuxWorks CEO Inder Singh recently defended Linux.

Luminosity supports BlueCat Linux, as well as the proprietary LynxOS real-time operating system. It can be used to create, edit, compile, manage, and debug Java and C/C++ embedded and real-time applications, the company says. It includes a project wizard to jumpstart development, along with a system viewer providing a view of all process and thread activity. It also provides:

• Platform Administration for configuration and management of cross-platform environments
• Target Administration for defining the exact hardware target to use
• Build Engine for specifying debugging options and building final projects
• Project Wizard for creating a project coding framework (C, C+)
• Kernel Wizard for creating C projects to build kernels

Luminosity also includes an Eclipse tool bar that lets users invoke telnet, FTP, and RCP options for communicating between host and target, or set debugger options that include GDB (command line debugger), the Total DB (GUI version of GDB), the Total View (proprietary debugger for LynxOS), and the Eclipse Integrated Debugger for graphical debugging with GDB 5.x or higher.

LynuxWorks VP of Marketing Bob Morris said, “Developers have another open standard-based platform that is compatible with our entire product line.”

Luminosity is expected to become available “in about two weeks,” according to Morris, priced at $2,400.

LynuxWorks also markets a line of Spyker tools for embedded development.

 
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