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The Zephyr Project Welcomes Eclipse IoT and Oticon As Members to Create a Safe and Secure RTOSSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Zephyr™ Project, an open source project at the Linux Foundation that aims to build a secure and flexible real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT) announces its growing ecosystem with the addition of Eclipse IoT and the move up for long-time member Oticon to Platinum member. Additionally, the project announces the release of Zephyr 2.0.0 and that several popular developer boards are now shipping with Zephyr including Nordic Semiconductor's Nordic Thingy91 and Adafruit's Actinius Icarus. In today's technology landscape, fragmentation is the biggest challenge. Developers have a wide range of choices for platforms, boards and components and many of those don't and can't connect with each other. Zephyr offers a small memory footprint and a secure and flexible RTOS that extends functionality of IoT devices. It is a customizable, embedded open source platform that can be built for multiple hardware architectures with safety and security. A Diverse and Active Community "The Eclipse Foundation's IoT Working Group is home to many open source projects relevant to embedded Linux and Zephyr developers," said Frédéric Desbiens, Program Manager for IoT and Edge Computing for the Eclipse Foundation. "Zephyr is one of the platforms supported by the Eclipse MRAA and Eclipse UPM abstraction libraries, which make constrained device applications device and OS independent. Moreover, Zephyr-based devices can integrate easily in IoT architectures leveraging the rich set of Eclipse IoT components, such as Eclipse Leshan for device management and Eclipse hawkBit for software updates. At the Eclipse Foundation, we think that IoT developers should absolutely consider the Zephyr RTOS when designing solutions that involve constrained devices. Zephyr has a lot to offer: vendor-neutral governance, a long term support (LTS) branch, and its emphasis on security." "At Oticon, we are pleased to have upgraded our Zephyr membership level to platinum," said Finn Möhring, senior vice president of R&D at Oticon. " We cherish the partnership with Zephyr being a professional open source community that supports us building world-class connectivity solutions for our hearing aids. Having launched the world's first internet-connected hearing aids, we are excited to be part of the unique IoT ecosystem and we value the inspiration we get from the Zephyr ecosystem when developing solutions that help people with hearing loss connect their daily, modern life." "We are excited about the growth of the Zephyr ecosystem," said Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs for the Linux Foundation. "It's a vbrant and diverse community driven to create an open source RTOS that fuels adoption and innovation. Their dedication has made a huge impact in the market and we're now seeing many more boards planned for shipping with Zephyr and more products based on Zephyr." Zephyr 2.0.0 Key enhancements of Zephyr RTOS version 2.0.0 include new or enhanced support for:
In addition, the first update of LTS - Zephyr 1.14.1 is being released, which provides a stable base for product development. "The delivery of these two releases demonstrates the level of commitment from the Zephyr Project and its members to support a stable LTS base, as well as introduce new features and enhancements intended to make IoT development easier," says Maureen Helm, senior software engineer at NXP and Technical Steering Committee Chair of the Zephyr Project. "These releases further solidify Zephyr OS as a leader in open source embedded development." Learn more about the Zephyr 2.0 technical details in this blog. Technical Momentum Zephyr supports more than 160 board configurations spanning 10 architectures. For the complete list, visit the Zephyr Github page. In addition to the increased board support, Zephyr technical momentum also includes being featured in a few getting started and study guides that offer development tips for creating open source solutions. The Bluetooth LE Developer Study Guide, created by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), uses Zephyr to help developers learn about Bluetooth Mesh from a variety of perspectives and gives them a range of projects they can leverage, whether they're a smartphone developer or an embedded software engineer. Additionally, Zephyr v1.14.1 LTS Host and Mesh subsystems are now Bluetooth qualified. This means that a developer working on a Bluetooth product based on Zephyr v1.14.1 LTS release can use the available QDIDs to simplify their Bluetooth qualifications. The RISC-V Getting Started Guide, in partnership with Antmicro, is a new resource intended to help members of the RISC-V Foundation and the Zephyr communities quickly get started using the RTOS on the RISC-V architecture. "At Antmicro, we strongly advocate openness and interoperability. As supporters and active contributors to Zephyr, we are happy to see the ecosystem expanding and look forward to the technology synergies offered by Zephyr and RISC-V on many fronts, as stressed in the RISC-V Getting Started Guide we kickstarted," said Michael Gielda, VP Business Development at Antmicro. The Zephyr Project will be on-site at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Lyon, France on October 28-30 with 13 presentations and a Mini-Summit. Learn more about the sessions and add them to your schedule: https://www.zephyrproject.org/event/embedded-linux-conference-europe/. To learn more about the products that use Zephyr RTOS, visit the Zephyr website and blog. About the Zephyr™ Project About the Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media Contact: View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-zephyr-project-welcomes-eclipse-iot-and-oticon-as-members-to-create-a-safe-and-secure-rtos-300933825.html SOURCE The Zephyr Project |