San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — The first quarter of 2002 represented the most successful and active period in TimeSys' history and sets the stage for more changes in the industry during the months ahead.

The company increased the amount of invested outside capital with a new round of funding from institutional venture firms and strategic partners. TimeSys' embedded Linux solution has been enhanced to support some of the leading embedded processor architectures, and the company entered into OEM partnerships with leading embedded systems providers.

Commenting on the company's rapid growth and progress, President and CEO Larry Weidman said, “It would be easy to look back at the first quarter and be proud of our accomplishments, but our mission was to build a foundation for dramatic changes in the embedded systems industry, so this is just the beginning. We are setting new standards by offering the only truly out-of-box embedded Linux GPL solution and redefining the expectations for performance and reliability.”

TimeSys is developing board support packages (BSP) for the most popular embedded boards based on a variety of processor architectures including PowerPC, ARM, Super-H, IA32 (x86) and XScale. Each BSP features TimeSys Linux GPL, a fully featured Linux distribution with the lowest-latency Linux kernel available, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), proprietary add-on Linux modules for performance and robustness, certified device drivers, documentation, cross- platform development tool chain and board-hosted tool chain.

In the next few weeks, TimeSys will be announcing additional OEM partnerships with other embedded systems providers in order to provide design engineers with turnkey solutions for a wide range of popular embedded boards powered by TimeSys Linux.

In order to execute on the company's new strategy, organizational changes were announced along with a new corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh's central business district.

 
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