Waltham, MA — (press release excerpt) — NetSilicon, Inc. today announced upgrades to its NET+Works platforms, which integrate software support with the company's NET+ARM system-on-chip (SOC) processors. The NET+Works upgraded product line includes NET+OS 3.0, a proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS) based solution, and NET+Lx 1.5, based on the open source uClinux embedded Linux kernel.

NetSilicon's NET+Works product family is a fully integrated, tested, and production-ready embedded platform comprised of complete hardware, software, RTOS, network protocols and servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), drivers, and utilities — fully supported and royalty-free. By elevating the traditional hardware-only system-on-silicon approach to a tightly coupled “solution-on-chip,” NetSilicon is able to give OEMs an out-of-box solution that allows design engineers to increase focus on product design and meet time-to-market demands. NET+Works is used in a variety of applications, such as Internet telephony, building access and control, wireless base stations, industrial automation, office appliances, and handheld computing.

NET+Lx 1.5, the open source NET+Works solution based on uClinux, includes . . .

• Support for 16 and 32-bit wide flash implementations
  
• Support for the Journaling Flash File System (JFFS)
  
• Asynchronous serial communication rates up to 230 kbps
  
• Simplified linker operation (with all Makefiles)
  
• A new configuration file that allows you to highlight only NET+ARM hardware configuration parameters.

Both NET+OS 3.0 and NET+Lx 1.5 will support the NET+50, the highest performance 32-bit ARM-based microprocessor offering available from NetSilicon, officially launched by the company April 2, 2001. Development kits for NET+OS 3.0 will be available April 30, 2001; NET+Lx 1.5 development kits will be available June 1, 2001.

 
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