eCosCentric announces eCosPro® for MCF5213 ColdFire® microcontroller

BIRMINGHAM, UK -- October 12, 2006 -- eCosCentric Limited,
the eCos and RedBoot experts today announced the availability
of the eCosPro® real-time operating system for the Freescale
Semiconductor MCF5213 ColdFire® microcontroller. Each M5213EVB
evaluation board will be distributed with an eCosPro Starter
Kit allowing end-users to rapidly evaluate eCos and begin
building applications based upon it. The eCosPro Starter Kit is a
commercial-grade distribution of the eCos RTOS for deeply embedded
systems, including a GNU-based compiler/debugger toolchain and
graphical eCos Configuration Tool. eCosCentric also offers a direct
upgrade to the full eCosPro Developer's Kit.

"We see strong demand from savvy system designers that wish to
deploy eCos on 32-bit microcontrollers, without incurring the
costs of external memory components", remarked Daniel Morris,
Sales & Marketing Director at eCosCentric. "eCosPro on the MCF5213
ColdFire microcontroller makes a potent, feature-rich combination
in compelling single-chip solutions."

"Working with eCosCentric to bring their eCosPro RTOS to the
ColdFire family of microcontrollers brings significant advantages
for Freescale's customers," said Jeff Bock, Global Marketing Manager
for Freescale's Consumer and Industrial Microcontrollers. "By
delivering the robust and scalable features of the eCosPro
Starter Kit with each M5213EVB evaluation board, eCosCentric
provides customers with key tools and services designed to enhance
application development."

The MCF5213 microcontroller is an integral part of Freescale's
Controller Continuum, offering system designers a peripheral packed,
high-performance, cost-effective device that does not need external
flash, RAM and associated memory buses. The eCosPro Starter Kit for
MCF5213 includes drivers for the internal flash, RS232 and watchdog
functions, along with support for interconnection via the SPI & I2C
buses. A minimal eCos-based application, including support to write
to the internal flash will need 3KiB of codespace. Hardware-based
application debugging is provided via a BDM adapter.

About eCosPro

eCosPro is a stable, fully tested and supported version of the
eCos open source real-time operating system and RedBoot bootstrap
firmware. The eCosPro Developer's Kit is a distribution of eCosPro
with commercial support & advice, prebuilt eCos host tools,
compiler toolchains, full documentation, Eclipse-based integrated
development environment to streamline eCos application development
(including graphical debugger), C++ runtime (including Standard
Template Library) as well as profiling, code coverage and memory
allocation debugging tools. eCosPro-CAN is available for this and
other ColdFire microcontrollers. Third party components certified
with eCosPro include a Java virtual machine, an in-memory database,
graphical user interfaces, CANopen and USB 2.0 compliant host,
device & OTG stacks.

About eCosCentric

Founded in April 2002, eCosCentric is the leading provider of eCos
and RedBoot support, training, development and consulting services
worldwide. Staffed by the original eCos creators and highly
experienced embedded system and software engineers, eCosCentric
provides complete solutions consisting of run-time systems,
complementary host tools and certified third party applications.

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Semiconductor, Inc. ColdFire® is a trademark of Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc. eCosCentric and eCosPro are registered
trademarks of eCosCentric Limited. I2C is a trademark of Philips
Semiconductors. All other company or product names mentioned herein
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.