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license with an exception which permits proprietary application code
to be linked with <SPAN
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>Powerful GUI-based configuration system allowing both large and
fine grained configuration of <SPAN
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allows the functionality of <SPAN
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>Full-featured, flexible, configurable, real time embedded
kernel. The kernel provides thread scheduling, synchronization,
timer, and communication primitives. It handles hardware resources
such as interrupts, exceptions, memory and caches.</P
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>The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) hides the specific features
of each supported CPU and platform, so that the kernel and other
run-time components can be implemented in a portable fashion.</P
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>Support for &micro;ITRON and POSIX Application Programmer
Interfaces (APIs). It also includes a fully featured, thread-safe ISO
standard C library and math library.</P
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>Support for a wide variety of devices including many serial
devices, ethernet controllers and FLASH memories. There is also
support for PCMCIA, USB and PCI interconnects.</P
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>A fully featured TCP/IP stack implementing IP, IPv6, ICMP, UDP
and TCP over ethernet. Support for SNMP, HTTP, TFTP and FTP are also
present.</P
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<SPAN
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serial and ethernet based booting and debug services during
development.</P
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components behaviour. These can be used both to check that hardware is
functioning correctly, and as examples of
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