eCos (embedded Configurable operating system) is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded systems and applications. A extremely configurable nature & severity of eCos allows a operating body to exist as customised to exact application requirements, redeeming a better imaginable dog-period performance and an optimised devices resource footprint. a thriving nett community has grown higher about the operating body ensuring in-on-going technical indicator innovation & wide platform trend lines.

eCos was designed for even equipment by having memory footprints in the tens to hundreds of kilobytes, or using real-period requirements. It may be utilized in devices that doesn't keep close at hand plenty RAM to support embedded Linux, which currently takes the minimum of astir Two MB of RAM, non including application & service requirements.

eCos diarrhethe in a wide kind of devices platforms, including ARM, CalmRISC, FR-V, Hitachi H8, IA-32, Motorola 68000, Matsushita AM3x, MIPS, NEC V8xx, PowerPC, SPARC, SuperH and Nios II.

Involved by using a eCos distribution is RedBoot, an open source application that uses a eCos Hardware Abstraction Layer to provide bootstrap firmware for embedded systems.

Commercial Distribution
eCosPro is a commercial distribution of eCos and RedBoot provided by eCosCentric

History

eCos was ab initio developed by Cygnus Solutions which was later bought by Red Hat. Inside early 2002, Red Hat ceased development of eCos & placed off a staff that were working on the design world health organization so formed their have company, eCosCentric, in order to prove my point development & provide commercial trend lines for eCos. Inside January 2004, at the asking of the eCos developers, Red Hat agreed to transport its eCos right of first publication to the Free Software Foundation. A transport was eventually executed within October 2005.