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Description
The developer's one-stop solution to creating low-cost, royalty-free embedded software solutions with Red Hat's eCos. - Shows readers how to save thousands of dollars and hundreds of programming hours by effectively using the open source eCos environment from market leader Red Hat!
- Part of the Perens Open Source Series.
- Foreword by Michael Tiemann, Red Hat CTO and a leader in the open-source software movement.
Embedded Software Development with eCos shows developers and managers the advantages of using eCos -- the Embedded Configurable Operating System from Red Hat - over proprietary or commercial embedded operating systems. As an Open Source solution, eCos provides a low-cost, royalty free option for embedded software development. Anthony Massa shows how eCos, and the eCos development environment, has all of the features and functionality to meet the needs of almost all commercial embedded system requirements. Massa provides an understanding of how to use the open-source licensing and royalty free nature of eCos in order to eliminate high startup and per unit costs associated with many of the proprietary real-time operating systems on the market today. Embedded systems are operating systems that must operate with a very small footprint (usually less than 100KB of space) and must be self-contained. Most companies use either proprietary solutions or expensive commercial solutions. eCos is the first powerful, royalty-free Open Source solution, from Red Hat. Anthony Massa is a professional embedded systems developer with over 4 years experience using eCos. He developed hardware, firmware, and device drivers around a variety of different processors, and worked on the design and development of software--ranging from firmware to applications--for numerous different successful products including satellite PC receiver cards, set-top boxes, satellite modems, and Internet-enabled wireless modems. Bruce Perens is the former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader who was instrumental in getting the system on two U.S. Space Shuttle flights. Bruce is currently working with the Hewlett-Packard Corporation as a senior strategist dealing with Linux and Open Source
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