Press Release

28 Nov 2002

InterNiche Releases ChronOS™ For The MCB167-Net

InterNiche Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of embedded networking products, today announced the release on the Infineon C16x platform using Keil tools of ChronOS™, a real time operating system designed for deeply embedded applications. ChronOS™ is a portable, ROMable, preemptive, real-time, multitasking kernel that is highly scalable and flexible. It is based on uC/OS–II and has been enhanced to improve its networking capabilities and to take advantage of the small size and speed of InterNiche protocols.

"ChronOS is based on the uC/OS™ which is a very popular RTOS", remarked Larry Larder, InterNiche's President & CEO. "We evaluated a number of RTOSes as well as examining writing our own and concluded that the small size of uC/OS, combined with its robust feature set was an ideal combination with the suite of protocols and applications that InterNiche offers", Larder continued. "We were able to use our engineering resources to quickly port all of our products and to enhance the RTOS, improving performance in a networking environment. By adding ChronOS to our product portfolio, we can now offer complete solutions for industrial control, automotive, consumer and communications applications, combining any variety of our twenty five (25) software modules. ChronOS is an ideal platform to support our TCP/IP, Web server, browser as well as routing and management software. This represents not just another quality InterNiche product, but a drastic reduction in time to market and costs for our customers."

ChronOS has all of the features you would expect from more expensive RTOSes including:

• extremely fast context switching,
• counting semaphores,
• mutual exclusion semaphores,
• event flags,
• message mailboxes,
• message queues,
• task management,
• fixed size memory,
• constant and deterministic execution time,
• and optimized integration with all InterNiche products.

InterNiche chose the Keil/Infineon combination as one of the first targets for ChronOS, recognizing the popularity of this platform and the potential value of ChronOS to the C16x/Keil user community. We believe that ChronOS - especially with InterNiche communications and management software - offers major cost, capability and time to market advantages for this community. InterNiche is bringing a proven industrial strength RTOS with excellent support to the market at price levels that set a new price/capability level for C16X users and open new opportunities for users who previously thought they could not access high quality commercial software.

Pricing and Availability

Contact InterNiche for pricing information and corporate and volume discounts.

About InterNiche Technologies

InterNiche Technologies has been developing and licensing networking management and configuration software for embedded systems since 1989. Hundreds of thousands of products depend on InterNiche software as part of their core functionality. Customers include companies such as AT&T, AT&T Wireless, Ericsson, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Nortel Networks, Raytheon, Kokusai Electric, and many more.

About Keil Software

Keil Software makes C compilers, macro assemblers, real-time kernels, debuggers, simulators, integrated environments, and evaluation boards for the 8051, 251, C16x/ST10, and ARM7 microcontroller families. Products available from Keil Software include embedded development tools, evaluation software, product updates, application notes, example code, and technical support. More information is available from www.keil.com.