EE Times editor Bernard Cole reports on some of the real-time operating system (RTOS) trends that are showing up at this week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston, MA, and reports on a recent RTOS study by CMP Media's Electronics Market Forecasters Group. Cole writes . . .

“. . . In terms of total RTOS shipments in 2000 worth $401.7 million, Wind River, with its VxWorksAE, pSOS and BSD Linux offerings, dominated, with almost 45 percent, according to the 2001 Embedded Development Tool and RTOSes study by CMP Media's Electronics Market Forecasters Group”

“According to the study, in current applications in datacom and networking, almost 67 percent were using in-house-developed kernels, RT Unix/Linux RTOSes, or commercial RTOSes specific to their requirements, compared with 47 percent for the more general-purpose RTOS solutions from Wind River Systems.”

“In new designs, the percentage increased to almost 77 percent vs. 58 percent for the Wind River solutions. In telecom, 51 percent of system designers were using VxWorks and pSOS in one or more present designs and 63 percent in future designs. By comparison, alternative, more net-optimized RTOS solutions were being used in 63 percent of current designs, increasing to almost 72 percent for future designs.”

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