MontaVista Delivers Embedded Hard Hat Linux for Intel XScale Platform
Aug 28th, 19:44 UTC
San Jose, Calif., Intel Developer Forum, August 28, 2001--MontaVista Software, the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced that Hard Hat Linux 2.0 would include support for the Intel® XScale<sup>TM</sup> micro architecture later this quarter. In January, MontaVista had demonstrated the first working version of embedded Linux®, targeting the Intel® XScale<sup>TM</sup> at the Linux World and Expo in New York.
"With Hard Hat Linux for XScale, MontaVista shows its ongoing commitment to provide embedded Linux for Intel mobile and scalable computing platforms," said Jim Ready, MontaVista president and CEO. "MontaVista proudly adds Intel XScale to the industry-leading array of embedded CPUs that we support."
MontaVista has optimized Linux and development tools to take advantage of XScale-specific architectural features. XScale application developers will benefit from these enhancements, which include per-formance tuning, reduced memory footprint and integrated device interfaces. In keeping with MontaVista and open source practices, all such work will be submitted back to the StrongARM/XScale/ARM source trees, promoting the architecture for the entire community.
Intel unveiled the XScale platform last year to extend the successful StrongARM<sup>TM</sup> technology base into the handheld/wireless marketplace. XScale is a powerful processor featuring cost-effective, power-efficient integration, targeted for applications in mobile telephony, personal connectivity, wireless video and handheld PCs, as well as for network infrastructure devices such as routers, switches and network attached storage. Unique to XScale is its ability to ratchet its power consumption up and down to suit different computing loads and thus conserve battery life on handheld devices.
Availability
Hard Hat Linux 2.0 for XScale will be available in the third quarter of 2001 from MontaVista to subscribers of the Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition. The first embedded target hardware supported will be the Intel IQ80310 evaluation platform, featuring the 80310 I/O chipset with a 600 MHz 80200 StrongARM processor core.
About Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition
Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition boasts unrivaled development support for the broadest range of embedded processor architectures, with more than 480 fully tested and supported host-target combinations. The feature-rich product enables development and deployment for a wide variety of embedded applications, providing a standard platform for designs in communications infrastructure, networking, consumer electronics, instrumentation and control.
About MontaVista Software Inc.
MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems software solutions for embedded developers. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal offerings are the cross development tools and operating system tailored for embedded developers. MontaVista products include Hard HatTM Linux®, a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, development platform and tool kits for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, and other microprocessor architectures. MontaVista offers developers a family of products and services for embedded design targeted for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to thin-client and edge applications. MontaVista Soft-ware also makes available valuable technology add-on packages that address specific customer requirements such as the Java development environment, High Availability technology, legacy RTOS porting tools, GUI toolkit and more.
Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors such Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co., and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.
Contacts:
Joe Samagond
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications
MontaVista Software Inc.
Phone: (408) 328-9234
E-mail: jsamagond@mvista.com
Patricia Colby
PR Strategy and Business Development
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Phone: (408) 293-8600 ext. 340
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(Submitted by Annette Oevermann of Pacifico, Inc.)
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