TimeSys Corp. announced today that it has joined the CE Linux Forum (CELF), an industry group focused on the advancement of Linux as an open source platform for consumer electronics devices. TimeSys said it will contribute its expertise in real-time embedded Linux toward furthering CELF's goals of improving the operating system's real-time performance, reliability, and power management, and reducing… startup/shutdown time and memory footprint.

“We are excited to become a part of the CE Linux Forum. Improving the real-time, power management, startup and shutdown capabilities of Linux will have a very positive effect on the adoption of Linux for all embedded systems, including consumer electronics,” said TimeSys CEO Larry Weidman. “Just as we've seen interest in the high-availability, carrier-grade features of TimeSys Linux outside of the telecommunications industry, there is interest in power efficiency, startup and shutdown times, smaller footprint, and real-time performance across the industrial, automotive, data communications, and other embedded industry segments. We believe that our expertise in enhancing Linux for real-time performance, high availability, and survivability under loads will advance the work of the CE Linux Forum.”

The CE Linux Forum was formed on July 1, 2003 by Founding Members Panasonic/Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., and Sony Corporation along with Appointed Members Hitachi, Ltd., NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation and Toshiba Corporation. The purpose of CELF is to formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of consumer electronics (CE) products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF will publish such requirements and will accept and evaluate open source solutions that support the published requirements. CELF will also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products.

TimeSys' flagship product is TimeSys Linux RTOS, a Linux operating system enhanced specifically for use in embedded systems. TimeSys said its Linux RTOS meets the need for a Linux alternative to proprietary real-time operating systems (RTOS) for advanced embedded systems, “is the industry's only single-kernel Linux RTOS,” and is delivered with robust development tools to aid in the development of embedded applications. TimeSys Linux RTOS is deployed in a wide variety of consumer electronics devices such as MPEG-4 digital network cameras, electronic keyboards/synthesizers, and digital set-top boxes, as well as advanced applications in the telecommunications, industrial/process control, and military/aerospace industries, the company said.

 
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