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Introduction
eCos is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded applications. The highly configurable nature of eCos allows the operating system to be customised to precise application requirements, delivering the best possible run-time performance and an optimised hardware resource footprint. A thriving net community has grown up around the operating system ensuring on-going technical innovation and wide platform support.
For further information concerning eCos, please refer to the about eCos page. eCos is not related to the Linux operating system.
eCos news
| July 11, 2006 | Host tools
eCosCentric has generated new unsupported snapshot builds of the eCos host tools that workaround an exception handling issue with Cygwin 1.5.19 and 1.5.20. Download and installation instructions are available. |
| April 20, 2005 | I2C infrastructure
eCosCentric has contributed I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) bus infrastructure from their eCosPro offering to eCos. The code and documentation are only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| August 24, 2004 | SPI infrastructure
eCosCentric has contributed SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) bus infrastructure from their eCosPro offering to eCos. The code and documentation are only available from the CVS repository at this time. |
| April 14, 2004 | PPP stack
eCosCentric has contributed a PPP stack based on FreeBSD source code. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the existing FreeBSD TCP/IP stack. |
| February 04, 2004 | eCos and RedBoot training course
eCosCentric has announced a public eCos and RedBoot training course which will be delivered on a periodic basis. The first course will be held in Cambridge, UK, April 19-22, 2004. |
| January 13, 2004 | Red Hat contributes eCos copyright to Free Software Foundation
Red Hat today announced their intention to transfer all their copyright in eCos to the Free Software Foundation. This will consolidate the legal standing of eCos, and is a great benefit to the eCos community. As eCos transitions to becoming an FSF project, there will be a number of changes, especially to the copyright assignment process for new contributions among other things. Please bear with us during this transitional period as we make updates. |
Earlier news items are available in the eCos news archive.
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