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Starting end of May, ELinOS 3.0 will be available with new tools for application development.

The embedded Linux development environment ELinOS 2.2 has been chosen to "Product of the Year 2003" in the category embedded systems from readers of of the German publication Elektronik.

McObject, developer of the eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database, has teamed with German embedded systems innovator SYSGO to offer a feature-rich, cost-efficient development package for embedded Linux applications.

To expand its European commitment, the German SYSGO is taking over the Swedish SESE (Scandinavian Embedded Solutions & Engineering AB). SESE distributes SYSGO's Linux products, the LynxOS real-time operating system and hardware products from Thales, Tews and Polyrack in the Scandinavian countries.

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) and SYSGO have agreed on a comprehensive partnership to integrate their products, including distribution, support and services of RTI products such as NDDS and StethoScope by SYSGO. The distribution agreement allows SYSGO to distribute RTI NDDS(r) products for the Linux(r), VxWorks(r), LynxOS(r), Windows(r) and QNX(r) platforms in Germany. In addition, SYSGO has been granted the marketing rights to RTI's popular Stethoscope graphical visualisation tool for Linux;…

As part of its "Industrial Linux" initiative, ELTEC supports all current industrial and image processing products for easy and secure development of industrial applications in modern, flexible control and automation solutions. The popular operating system also offers many advantages for embedded designs. With its extensive support for Linux, ELTEC opens up time and cost savings in product development for its customers. Two compatible Linux platforms are offered: Standard Linux (e.g. from Suse or…

SYSGO offers the new ELinOS 2.2 in two versions. For beginners, for evaluation and for learning and test phases, the BasicToolbox is still available. For professional use of embedded Linux, the Development Kit was developed with additional tools and a comprehensive support concept.

For the first time, Stäubli Sargans AG is using embedded Linux for the development of a weaving preparation machine for the textile industry. The company Stäubli Sargans AG has worked closely with the Mainz-based Linux specialists SYSGO. All system requirements such as touch operation, network functionality and web server for administration purposes were realised with Linux - for the time-critical parts, the real-time extension RTAI was used.

Honeywell is expanding its building automation solutions with a Linux-based controller. Honeywell commissioned the Mainz-based software house SYSGO to create the system software for the new member of the EXCEL 5000 OPEN family. The core of the hardware platform is based on a PowerPC CPU from Motorola, for which SYSGO developed the board support package, the drivers for the required peripherals and a boot loader. The application software is created in-house by Honeywell.

SYSGO now offers special hardware programs for ELinOS - the most popular development program for Linux in Europe. Both programs are aimed at board manufacturers and OEMs who want to offer their customers a professional solution for Linux.

SYSGO is presenting at electronica with a focus on Embedded Linux and LynxOS.

SYSGO today reports the porting of ELinOS for Hitachi SH3 and MIPS processors. This brings ELinOS, the leading development environment for embedded Linux, into the area of microprocessors for communication applications and consumer electronics.

ELinOS from SYSGO on PowerPC platforms from MEN. Enough has been written about the advantages of Embedded Linux. The advantages of PowerPC platforms are also well known. Together, they surpass any "Wintel" solution in terms of price, reliability and compactness. For this reason, MEN Mikro Elektronik and SYSGO have joined forces to present an unbeatable product family: SYSGO's ELinOS on all MEN's Kahlua II-based single-board computers.

The distribution for embedded Linux originating from Germany is now also available for ARM processors and will be presented to the public at Embedded Systems 2002. ELinOS has been extended by special functions tailored to the ARM architecture and will be available not only for Intel x86, PowerPC but also for the widely used ARM processors from March 2002.

The embedded Linux distribution ELinOS has been equipped with additional real-time features.