15 May 2009

Timesys LinuxLink Support For TI DaVinci Platform

Timesys Corporation, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has confirmed that its software development framework for building embedded Linux based products, dubbed LinuxLink, will support Texas Instruments’ DaVinci DM6446 and DM355 processors.

The video orientated TI DaVinci DM6446 and DM355 processors combine ARM9 RISC cores with TI DSP cores.

With support for DaVinci reference board device drivers including Ethernet, Serial, LCD display, Audio, USB and more, LinuxLink customers can easily leverage DaVinci’s features and achieve a fast Linux product design and implementation cycle, the company said.

DaVinci users will benefit from the LinuxLink framework which features a build system called Factory that provides both the easy-to-use wizard for creating an initial Linux starting image and a build engine that enables customers to design and build a completely custom and highly optimized Linux platform from source code.

The Factory wizard allows customers to choose from the latest GNU-based optimized toolchains enabled with uClibc and glibc libraries. The framework allows for creation of a footprint-optimized root filesystem (RFS) with application-specific features selected from hundreds of available software packages. Package categories include multimedia, networking, storage, security, industrial and more.