The Zephyr™ Project, an open source project that lets developers to build a real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the expansion of its IoT ecosystem with support for more than 100 developer boards and six new members. These industry and academic leaders include Antmicro, DeviceTone, SiFive, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and Northeastern University.
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The Zephyr Project is hosted by Linux Foundation, the largest open source non-profit organization, dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption.
The Zephyr Project aims to form a neutral community of silicon vendors, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Original Design Manufacturer (ODMs) and Independent Software Vendor (ISVs) to utilize technology to reduce the cost and speed up time to market for developing billions of IoT devices.
At the time of launch in 2016, Zephyr was supported on only four boards including Arduino 101, Arduino Due, Intel® Galileo™ Gen 2 and the FRDM-K64F Freedom development board from NXP® Semiconductors. It now supports more than 100 boards comprising of different architectures, such as ARM, x86, ARC, NIOS II, XTENSA, and RISCV32 processor families.
The Zephyr IoT ecosystem recently added new members including DeviceTone, Antmicro, SiFive, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and Northeastern University. These companies join industry leaders such as Intel, Nordic Semiconductor, Linaro, NXP, Synopsys, Oticon and others.
“Developers have many choices when it comes to platforms. Zephyr offers the smallest memory footprint and a secure and flexible RTOS that extends functionality of IoT devices,” said Anas Nashif, Chair of the Zephyr Project Technical Steering Committee and a Software Engineer at Intel’s Open Source Technology Centre. “We are excited to welcome these member companies into our IoT ecosystem and look forward to collaborating with them to create and support a customizable, embedded open source platform.”
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The Linux Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption. It is the world’s largest open source non-profit organization. Linux works to promote, advance, and protect Linux and collaborative development and support the “greatest shared technology resources in history.” Starting in 2000 under the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), Linux Foundation has become the organization it is today when OSDL merged with the Free Standards Group (FSG). It is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption.
