28 August 2008

RidgeRun Confirms Open Source Offerings For TI OMAP35x

RidgeRun, Inc. which focuses on bringing the reliability and flexibility of Linux to embedded Internet appliances based on ARM technology to deliver a performance  platform for multimedia devices, has confirmed support for Texas Instruments’ (TI) open source offerings, specifically OMAP35x.

TI's OMAP35x platform consists of four distinct, single-chip processors: OMAP3503, OMAP3515, OMAP3525 and OMAP3530 applications processors. These processors offer a variety of combinations of the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 core, integrated multimedia-rich peripherals, OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible graphics engine, video accelerators and TMS320C64x+ digital signal processor (DSP) core.

The complete platform allows for differentiation and rapid development of next-generation multimedia-enhanced devices with high-performance productivity at low, handheld power levels for a wide range of possible applications, including portable navigation devices, Internet appliances and portable patient monitoring products.

RidgeRun's user interface, media and networking software bundles include a set of Linux applications and libraries for embedded products that reduces product development time. The bundle solutions helps developers in leveraging the benefits of TI's OMAP35x processor plus the TMS320DM355, the TMS320DM335 and the TMS320DM6446 processors to integrate Linux advanced user interfaces, faster data access and multi-standard encode and decode, the company explained.

"RidgeRun's software expertise in embedded Linux development provides invaluable support for our customers that are differentiating their products with customized Linux applications," said Kevin Hawkins, OMAP35x marketing manager, TI. "RidgeRun works closely with TI to ensure high quality and performance for developing multimedia-based applications and devices."

RidgeRun has also announced embedded software development kits (SDKs) with Linux kernels and drivers, complete reference applications and libraries with expert engineering services for TI's open source offerings.