Base Ports

Codito Technologies has core expertise in the development and porting of embedded operating systems to new embedded processors. Our Operating System Team works during the chip design cycle with hardware teams to develop custom OS base ports for new and existing embedded SoC designs.

Expertise

• Base ports to new processors
• Linux, uClinux, RTLinux, eCos
• Work on ARM, ARC, StrongARM, x86, MIPS, PPC, CRA
• Custom ports for specific verticals
• Application specific optimizations

Port of uClinux to an extensible RISC architecture

Codito's Operating Systems Team worked on porting uClinux to an MMU-less 32-bit processor targeted for mobile devices. Our Team built a complete uClinux base port on the new chip, which is the first instance of any version of Linux working on this architecture and its instruction set. The porting process involved close interaction with the hardware design team at the chip manufacturer's end. Codito's Tools Team was also a part of this effort, working on incremental bug fixes of the base tool chain. The port also involved porting of the uClibc Toolchain and related embedded libraries and applications. The port was tested with an extended customized version of the standard test suite from the Linux Test Project.

Linux on ARM platforms

Codito worked on an ARM-based development platform for a leading consumer electronics chip manufacturer. Our Team fixed a buggy port, and built device drivers for additional on-chip and on-board devices like Ethernet, USB, LCD panel, Touch screen, etc. In addition to complete application developer documentation, Codito also bootstrapped the client's Embedded Linux application team on the architecture.

Codito also developed the first OpenRTLinux 3.0 (now RTLinuxFree) to an ARM derived core. We are now preferred partners with FSMLabs, Inc., the inventors of RTLinux and work closely with them and their customers on RTLinux based product development.

More Information
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