HILLSBORO, Ore — RadiSys Corp., a leading global designer and manufacturer of embedded computing solutions used by OEMs in the telecommunications, automation and other industries, announced Linux Operating Software (OS) support and availability for its EPC-204, an Intel Mobile Pentium II processor-based CompactPCI CPU designed for telephony applications. RadiSys has already built a substantial amount of Linux expertise in-house, having routinely validated Linux compatibility on several of its embedded computer products, which are used in engineering and manufacturing.

“More and more of RadiSys' customers in the telecom and datacomm markets are starting to select system components that utilize Linux OS,” says Arif Kareem, vice president and general manager, RadiSys Corp. “As Linux gains momentum in the telecom industry as an alternative operating system, we find our customers asking for Linux support. RadiSys is ensuring future compatibility for their customers by including the OS in the validation plans for RadiSys' CPU platforms.”

While Linux is still growing into the embedded marketplace, both RadiSys and its customers are very excited by the enhancements that are being made to the feature-set, including smaller memory footprints and extensive work supporting embedded and real-time applications. By adding Linux OS support to RadiSys' EPC-204 CPU, RadiSys enables customers to take advantage of the installed base for Linux and address new applications. Linux capability expands the total addressable market for both RadiSys' customers and the product.

Radisys considers Linux important to its business because it provides a very rich operating system feature-set including true multitasking, demand-paged virtual memory with copy-on-write shared executables, support for many native and foreign file systems, TCP/IP and other networking protocol stacks and loadable device drivers. The Linux copyright ensures that the source code is freely available to all, but also allowing it to have an open source. This allows each developer to modify the code to suit the needs of his application, while at the same time cooperatively enhancing the software and avoiding royalty fees.

About RadiSys

RadiSys designs and manufactures embedded subsystems that are used in a wide variety of electronics systems, from telecommunications equipment to medical devices to robotics applications. Its subsystems include Intel-based embedded computers, signal processors, communications interfaces, and certain types of embedded software. RadiSys' highly differentiated position in the market is a result of its intense focus on Intel-based technology, having the broadest array of building blocks, and having a “perfect fit” product development strategy of using its intellectual property to design high-volume customer- and application-specific subsystems. For more information, contact RadiSys at [email protected] or www.radisys.com or call 800/950-0044 or 503/615-1100.

 
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