Timesys Corporation is a company selling Linux open source software security, engineering services, and development tools, for the embedded software market. They also help software development teams build and maintain a custom

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

platform for embedded processors from

integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

manufacturers such as

Atmel Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included micr ...

Freescale Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focused their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embed ...

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...

, and

Xilinx Xilinx, Inc. ( ) was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices. The company was known for inventing the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and creating the fi ...

. The company was founded in 1995 by principals associated with

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

and is headquartered in

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

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. The company initially provided the first

real-time Real-time or real time describes various operations in computing or other processes that must guarantee response times within a specified time (deadline), usually a relatively short time. A real-time process is generally one that happens in defined ...

enhanced embedded Linux distribution, known as Timesys Linux/RT. Timesys joined the

OSDL Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) was a non-profit organization supported by a consortium to promote Linux for enterprise computing. Founded in 2000, OSDL positioned itself as an independent, non-profit lab for developers who are adding enterpris ...

in 2003, and in 2004, was the first to register a carrier-grade Linux distribution. In 2005, Timesys open-sourced their software. At that time, the company announced LinuxLink, a software development framework that helps embedded software development teams configure, patch, build and maintain an open source Linux platform. It includes a Linux kernel, GNU toolchain, packages and libraries and development tools. Subscribers are provided with regular updates, documentation and support. All Linux platform components and updates are open source and are provided through the LinuxLink Factory custom platform builder. Embedded Linux platforms, developed and maintained through LinuxLink, exist in hundreds of

consumer electronics Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes. Consumer electronics include devices used for entertainment, communications and recreation. Usually r ...

medical device A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes. Significant potential for hazards are inherent when using a device for medical purposes and thus medical devices must be proved safe and effective with reasonable assura ...

industrial automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

and networking products. LinuxLink evolved to become a portal for customers to gain access to cybersecurity products and services, development tools, and to ask for help. Timesys added end-to-end device security in 2019. Vigiles is a vulnerability and mitigation tracker for automatically identifying, monitoring and tracking vulnerabilities specific to a developer's actual product configurations, along with triage and mitigation collaboration tools to fix issues. Timesys provides

secure by design Secure by design, in software engineering, means that software products and capabilities have been designed to be foundationally secure. Alternate security strategies, tactics and patterns are considered at the beginning of a software design, ...

services, to implementsecurity features including

secure boot UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a set of Specification (technical standard), specifications written by the UEFI Forum. They define the Software architecture, architecture of the platform firmware used for booting and its Interfa ...

over-the-air update Over-the-air programming (OTA programming) refers to various methods of distributing new software, configuration settings, and even updating encryption keys to devices like mobile phones, set-top boxes, electric cars or secure voice communication ...

s, device encryption, hardening, and security audits. For long-term support of embedded devices, Timesys a Linux OS

board support package In embedded systems, a board support package (BSP) is the layer of software containing hardware-specific boot firmware and device drivers and other routines that allow a given embedded operating system, for example a real-time operating system (RT ...

maintenance service.

References

External links

Timesys Corporation website
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