M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers (Nasdaq: FLSH) announced today that it was cooperating with Accelerated Technology, a division of Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq:MENT), to support mass data storage for Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) mobile platforms.
As part of this cooperation, M-Systems is porting its patented TrueFFS flash management software to Accelerated Technology’s Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS). Both companies believe this will enable developers to more easily integrate M-Systems' Mobile DiskOnChip storage device into products based on Texas Instruments’ open multimedia applications platform (OMAP) running Accelerated Technology’s Nucleus RTOS.
M-Systems develops flash-based data storage products known as flash disks, which are designed to provide the functionality of a mechanical hard drive in a silicon chip. The company’s products are based on its TrueFFS technology and target applications in a vast array of markets, including connected devices, mobile and telecom.
Accelerated Technology’s Nucleus RTOS powers embedded applications on many different CPU’s in a range of applications. The Nucleus RTOS provides an extensive set of services to manage multiple tasks, inter-task communication and synchronization, events, memory, timers, hardware interrupts and software signals.
Mentor Graphics' Embedded Systems Division director of marketing Robert Day said, "Mobile handsets often require fast boot and have limited memory capacity. The Nucleus RTOS has been prevalent in such devices as its modular architecture and small footprint make it an ideal choice."
"Having M-Systems' TrueFFS flash file system ported to the Nucleus RTOS now provides developers using Mobile DiskOnChip with a seamless integration to the Nucleus file system and enables developers of mobile handsets to benefit from Mobile DiskOnChip capacity, performance and reliability using our royalty-free RTOS."
M-Systems' Mobile DiskOnChip marketing manager Arie Tal said, "Mobile DiskOnChip presents a PC-like memory architecture to smart phones, in which full scale graphical operating systems and added value, data rich applications are introduced, many ported from desktop PCs."
Shares of M-Systems closed on Nasdaq on Tuesday at $6.70.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on 7 August, 2002