eCos and RedBoot based products showcase

The eCos RTOS and RedBoot bootloader have been used in a wide variety of market segments and products. From high volume consumer appliances where the emphasis is on minimizing licensing costs and hardware resource requirements, to low volume semi-custom designs where simplicity and flexibility are the most important considerations, and everything inbetween.

In the fragmented embedded operating systems market eCos is one of the major players, with global market usage of around 5-6% according to multiple surveys.

If you have developed, or know of a new product that uses eCos or RedBoot, please stop by at our stand, or email us and let us know.

Below is a small selection of eCos based products illustrating the wide
variety of device types, markets and manufacturers that have embraced eCos. We'll have a selection of products on our stand.

Consumer Electronics and Multimedia

* Sony, Playstation 3, next generation games console. eCos is used to provide the Playstation's Wi-Fi support based on the Marvell 88W8580 WLAN chip.
* Samsung, LCD HDTVs, including the "M" and "F" top-of-the-line ranges of 32-70 inch sets.
* Eye-Fi, Eye-Fi wireless SD cards
* Sirius, Satellite Radio Receivers

Networking and Communications

* NETGEAR, WGR614 Ethernet & wireless router, and MR814 cable/dsl wireless router
* Cisco, DPC/EPC2325, DOCSIS Residential Cable Gateway with built-in wireless access point and Ethernet switch.
* CommtechWireless, Fusion Series modular messaging system
* Mikrom, MVD600 H.264/AAC decoder
* NETGEAR, GS108T, GS724TS and GS748TS PROSAFE^® 8, 24 and 48 port gigabit managed smart switches

Industrial and Automotive

* Johnson Controls, York International range of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, using eCos and RedBoot.
* Fluke, 289 and 287 True-RMS Multimeters. Industrial/electronics logging & graphing multimeters
* Vipa, Speed7 PLC, eCos based process control systems
* Schindler, Schindler 7000 range of high-rise elevators.
* JCI Sabroe, Unisab III, advanced refrigeration systems controller

Office and Information Technology

* Cisco/TANDBERG, a complete range of high definition video conferencing equipment
* Brother International, HL-2400CeN and HL-3400CN, award winning series of colour laser printers
* Epson, colour laser printers.
* Banksys, countertop Xenta and portable Xentissimo electronic banking point of sale terminals. eCos used for communications and security processor.

Satellite and Space-Based Systems

* The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics instrument flown to the International Space Station on last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour
* IKI-RAS (Space Research Institute-Russian Academy of Sciences), Chibis-M, a mission to study transient plasma-wave processes in the upper atmosphere and transient luminous events such as sprites, jets and other phenomena.
* ESA, SSETI Express
* Trimble, TM3000, a customizable GPS based asset tracking system.
* Thrane & Thrane, shipboard security, navigational and Inmarsat based communication systems Sailor mini-C, features distress alert and messaging, email, fax, GPS position polled reporting and recording.

Miscellaneous

* Raytheon, Patriot Missile, tactical air defence and anti-ballistic missile system.
* WowWee, Rovio. The company that brought us the Robosapien has now produced the Rovio robot sentry
* Fermilab, Tevtron and International Linear Accelerator
* Sinar, Sinarback eMotion, professional medium format digital camera backs
* Los Alamos National Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Plutonium Attribute Verification System (AVNG).
* Visible Energy, Energy UFO, home appliance energy usage monitoring, control and scheduling via web/iphone over Ethernet/Powerline connection.

RedBoot Based Products

* Linksys, NAS200 & NSLU2, Network Attached Storage devices with built in media server for streaming
* Axis, wide range of network cameras and video server blade products use RedBoot firmware.
* Thecus, N4100 and N2100 series NAS, home media servers and network attached storage devices.
* Yamaha, RX V2700, RX N600, DSP-N600, HTR-N5060, and DSP-AX2700 7.1 Surround Network Home Theater Receivers.