GizmoSphere Welcomes Newest Partner: Embedded Linux Expert Timesys

LONGMONT, Colo. - June 22, 2013 - PRLog -- This week GizmoSphere, the embedded development community and support center for x86-based open source designs, gained its newest partner, Pittsburgh-based Timesys Corporation, a leader in embedded Linux since 1995. Timesys rounds out the roster of partners, which includes AMD Corporation, Sage Electronic Engineering, Viosoft Corporation, and Texas Multicore Technologies (TMT). Partners contribute time, talent and resources to propel GizmoSphere forward and serve a growing community of embedded developers.

At the heart of GizmoSphere is Gizmo, an x86-based development board that supplies the power of a supercomputer and the I/O capabilities of a microcontroller. Gizmo is part of the Gizmo Explorer Kit, available through SemconductorStore.com. With the kit, designers can supercharge their projects, gaining access to the full spectrum of functions provided by the AMD Embedded G-series APU resident on the Gizmo board. What’s more, Gizmo delivers 52.8 GFLOPS for a performance level that far surpasses what many other development boards offer.  

With the addition of Timesys to the team, GizmoSphere now offers expertise in the embedded Linux arena, which is attractive to design teams targeting Linux as their go-to-market platform. Timesys is committed to providing easy-to-use, embedded Linux offerings to support development. As the first organization to develop and maintain a real-time embedded Linux distribution, Timesys is active in many different industries including consumer electronics, medical, automotive, and industrial control.

Other GizmoSphere partners bring additional expertise to the table. Founding partners AMD and Sage collaborated to come up with the Gizmo board design. Sage contributes its development tools to the Gizmo Explorer Kit, namely the SmartProbe®, a configurable plugin development tool for embedded designs, and a trial license for the Sage EDK, an intuitive graphical interface that streamlines development and debug. Viosoft is recognized for enabling Android development, and TMT is a provider of innovative multicore programming solutions.

Together the GizmoSphere partners offer embedded developers a wealth of resources through the GizmoSphere portal, where a growing community is active via discussion forums and other communication channels. Presently selling for $199, the Gizmo Explorer Kit is a complete system solution for technical buffs involved in x86-based embedded development.

To learn more about or join GizmoSphere, or to purchase a Gizmo board and development kit, please visit www.gizmosphere.org.

About GizmoSphere

GizmoSphere is an independent initiative created to meet the open source development needs of embedded developers around the globe. It serves as a resource center providing documentation, downloads, schematics, news and other information pertinent to the embedded development community. GizmoSphere offers the Gizmo Explorer Kit, which brings the power of a supercomputer and the I/O capabilities of a microcontroller to the x86 open source embedded development community in one convenient, affordable package. For details, visit www.gizmosphere.org.

About Timesys

Timesys is a pioneer and industry leader in providing embedded Linux solutions. Available for a wide range of popular target platforms including ARM®, MIPS® and Power®, Timesys’ LinuxLink is a complete embedded Linux suite of tools for platform and application development. LinuxLink combines an innovative build system, pre-tested software, comprehensive suite of development tools for building feature-rich applications and debugging, and expert support to enable developers to deliver high-quality products based on open source Linux. For more information, visit www.timesys.com.