Continuing its recent strategy of partnering with board-level vendors, Timesys today announced a deal to bring its embedded Linux real-time operating system (RTOS) and its suite of application development tools to Kontron's CP605 CompactPCI embedded boards.

The CP605 is based on an Intel Pentium 4 or Mobile 4 processor and is marketed in the telecommunications and network carrier markets in a number of configurations. Kontron says the board is meant for performance-critical, space-sensitive, and price-sensitive applications.

Features include:

• 6U CompactPCI Single Slot CPU based on Intel P4 or P-4M
• 4HP design for space-minimized applications
• 478-pin package FC-PGA
• high-performance version at 2 to 2.4 GHz
• low-power Mobile Pentium 4-M processor at 1.2 to 2.2 GHz
• on-die 512 KB full speed L2 cache
• up to 1 GB soldered DDR SDRAM
• up to 2 GB total memory with the addition of one DDR SODIMM module
• Intel 845GV chipset with 400 or 533 MHz processor side bus
• two gigabit Ethernet ports
• fast Ethernet port
• five (5) USB 2.0 ports
• supports PICMG 2.16 Packet Switching Backplane with a 32-bit, 33 MHz
  PMC interface.
• Can be operated as system master or in passive mode (in a peripheral slot in a CompactPCI system).
• Optional Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

TimeSys markets its Linux RTOS as a complete, hardware-specific, ready-to-run, real-time operating system available on more than 65 supported hardware platforms. TimeSys claims to have the industry's lowest latency Linux kernel offering full kernel preemption, unlimited process priorities, enhanced schedulers, and high availability/carrier-grade features.

According to TimeSys, TimeSys Linux RTOS deploys “unique priority inversion avoidance mechanisms” and “high resolution timers” to meet the performance requirements of the most demanding real-time systems.

TimeSys said it enhances and certifies device drivers to support all peripherals, cross-platform GNU tool chains, a root file system and documentation. TimeSys also offers the TimeStorm debugging IDE and TimeTrace tracing tools, which can be run on either Windows or Linux.

 
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