Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today released complete embedded Linux solutions for NEC Electronics Inc.'s 'Rockhopper' development systems for embedded engineers utilizing NEC's VR5432 and VR5500 64-bit MIPS RISC microprocessors. The VR5432 and VR5500 MIPS-based RISC microprocessors target for low-power, high performance devices such as digital consumer products, network… routers and switches, Internet appliances and color imaging products.

The Rockhopper development systems using either the VR5432 or VR5500 microprocessors are ideal evaluation boards for embedded engineers designing digital televisions, set-top boxes, interactive games, midrange printers and network devices. Coupled with TimeSys' complete embedded Linux solution, embedded systems designers have at their disposal the hardware and development environment to design, develop and deploy such solutions quickly and cost effectively with exceptional performance.

TimeSys' Linux solution for the Rockhopper development system using VR5432 and VR5500 microprocessors delivers a complete solution for embedded engineers that includes:

• Support for the Rockhopper development boards for TimeSys' complete embedded Linux product offering
• Linux board-hosted GNU toolchains
• PC-based Linux cross-platform GNU toolchains
• Timing analysis core for use by TimeSys' event tracing and timing visualization tool: TimeTrace
• Certified device drivers
• User, API and system specific documentation

For Windows-based cross platform development, TimeSys supports the Rockhopper boards with the following set of Windows-based cross-development tools:

• TimeStorm: TimeSys' Windows-hosted Integrated Development Environment for cross-platform development complete with Windows-based MIPS cross-platform toolchains
• TimeTrace: a Windows-hosted tool for event tracing and timing visualization
• TimeWiz: a Windows-hosted real-time analysis and simulation tool

TimeSys' complete embedded Linux solutions for the NEC VR5432 and VR5500- based Rockhopper development systems are available for download.

 
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