MontaVista Linux and Developer Tools Support Freescale Multi Core Platform

MontaVista announced its support for Freescale's new Multi-Core Communications Platform. MontaVista Linux and Developer Tools will take advantage of Freescale's multi-core architecture to enable device designers and embedded application developers to create new products that are dramatically faster and more efficient power consumption.

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James Ready, MontaVista:

We enable Linux development on dozens of Freescale processors, and we are excited about the performance breakthroughs of the new Multi-Core Communications Platform…

Our experience with Freescale and in supporting multi-core offerings allows us to simplify the development challenges with virtualization and other support technologies that enable flexibility in system design so developers can take advantage of Freescale's many features…

Freescale look to MontaVista Linux to provide real-time capabilities in multi-core processors today. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition supports Freescale's MPC8641D Dual Core offering today.

Jeff Timbs, Freescale's Networking Systems Division, said:

We appreciate how MontaVista Linux accelerates product launches for Power Architecture developers…

By supporting Freescale's new Multi-Core Platform and its ecosystem of enablement, MontaVista can expect to accelerate and streamline development of embedded multi-core Linux applications based on advanced Freescale products…

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