Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced the availability of its Hard Hat Linux 2.0 embedded operating system and development tools for the ARM microprocessor architecture. MontaVista Hard Hat Linux has been ported to ARM 920T and ARM 720T microprocessor cores on the ARM Integrator development and evaluation boards (CM720T and CM920T). The high performance, low power ARM9 and ARM7 Thumb processor families provide an ideal hardware platform for Hard Hat Linux, especially for target applications in the consumer, networking, wireless, automotive, and security market segments.

Hard Hat Linux supports a broad range of embedded processor architectures, with more than 480 fully tested and supported host-target combinations. This feature-rich product enables a wide variety of embedded applications, providing a standard platform for designs in communications infrastructure, networking, consumer electronics, instrumentation, and control.

Hard Hat Linux for ARM microprocessors is available immediately to subscribers of the Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition for x86-based hosts. Additional hosts will be added to Hard Hat Linux 2.0 on an ongoing basis.

 
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