16 May 2008

eSOL RTOS Supports Farraday ARMv4 ISA FA526 Based Chip

eSOL, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has confirmed that its realtime operating system, PrKERNELv4, coupled with the integrated development environment eBinder, now supports Faraday's ARMv4 ISA-based FA526 processor.

Faraday, also a member of the ARM Connected Community, is an ARM ISA licensees, and its 32-bit RISC processor FA526, verified by ARM, complies with its ARMv4 instruction architecture.  The FA525 is targeted at embedded networking, PC peripheral and multimedia SoC designs.

"I believe that this partnership with Faraday will bring tremendous engineering and business advantages to all the SoC vendors, system houses and IDMs throughout Asia in the embedded system industry", said Nobuyuki Ueyama, the Executive Vice President of eSOL Co., Ltd. 

“We are glad to establish the partnership with eSOL, which substantially enriches our FA CPU ecosystem to fulfill customers’ demands on a professional integrated development environment – eBinder and the leading µITRON RTOS - PrKERNELv4“, said Dr.George Hwang, Vice President of International Business at Faraday.  ”With this cooperation, it is expected that we will greatly expand our FA CPU SoC business in Japan, further extending it to other areas soon.”

PrKERNELv4 seamlessly integrates eSOL's eBinder IDE that offers an ARM RealView Compiler tool, along with comprehensive debugging and profiling tools to fine-tune embedded applications.  eBinder uses insightful snapshots of PrKERNELv4 to help both firmware and application engineers easily identify glitches in programs and low-level drivers, the company explained.

eSOL also offers leading milddleware packages, ready to be used with PrKERNELv4, that includes FAT file systems, USB hosts and devices, TCP/IP protocol stacks, and much more.  In addition, PEG, embedded graphic libraries from Swell Software, will be integrated with PrKERNELv4 and be available in the 2nd quarter of 2008.  eBinder IDE is also supported by Signum System's JTAGjet JTAG emulator.

"Here at eSOL, we have extensive experience working with SoC vendors and have provided the leading system houses and IDMs with the best of the breed RTOS suites.  These include IDE for various ARM architectures, from ARM7 and ARM9 to the latest ARM11 MPCore.  And, leading development tools and middleware packages from eSOL and the industry's other  premier vendors such as Swell Software and Signum Systems will accelerate the development of next-generation embedded system products," added Ueyama.