Ericsson gets real development from OSE

An Enea Embedded Technology product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 10, 2002

OSE Systems and Ericsson Mobile Platforms have signed a comprehensive partnership agreement that allows the OSE real-time operating system to be licensed with Ericsson's platform technology.

OSE Systems and Ericsson Mobile Platforms have signed a comprehensive partnership agreement that allows the OSE real-time operating system to be licensed with Ericsson's platform technology.

Ericsson will deploy OSE in next-generation mobile phone platforms enabling worldwide handset manufacturers to reduce technology costs and speed time-to-market.

As part of a nonexclusive agreement, OSE, the worldwide leader of real-time operating systems (RTOS) technology for the wireless market, will deliver the OSE Wireless Platform, accessory products and related development tools for the Ericsson 3G and 2.5G (including GPRS) platforms.

These platforms are based on Ericsson's core mobile handset technology and address the total range of handsets, from feature phones to smart phones with desktop-like capabilities and business-to-business terminals.

"We are pleased with the new agreement with OSE Systems.

OSE has proven to be an excellent provider of advanced RTOS solutions over the years.

Our objective is to enable a complete and powerful solution that meets the specific needs of the next mobile phone market, from entry level to high-end devices", said Tord Wingren, president of Ericsson Mobile Platforms.

"Ericsson's continued confidence in OSE makes a very powerful statement of endorsement", says Ola Berglund, president of OSE Systems.

"These platforms allow cellular phone manufacturers to easily and cost-effectively develop wireless devices that are flexible, modular and scaleable across a wide range of products".

OSE offers a complete and extended RTOS solution with special capabilities for 3G and 2.5G handsets such as multicore support, dynamic program loading in runtime, memory protection for downloaded applications, advanced FLASH support, crash safe file system, virtual memory, power management capabilities, networking, Bluetooth, Java and graphics, user applications such as Web Browser and email client.

The OSE Wireless Platform supports all ARM architectures and a majority of DSP architectures.