Hospitality Suite  # HS59

February 13, 2006, Barcelona, Spain – Enea, the world leader in advanced device software for wireless systems, today announced that it will be showcasing several key components of its device software optimization (DSO) solution for 3G systems at the 3GSM World Congress. Enea’s new pre-integrated RTOS, middleware, and database technology enables designers to get to market faster with wireless access systems and mobile devices that offer enhanced availability at a reduced cost.

Enea will demonstrate key elements of its DSO solution at its hospitality suite (# HS59). Enea will also host a cocktail party on Tuesday evening, February 14th, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM at the Vivaldi Bar, a short ten-minute walk from the Fira.

“Enea’s wireless DSO solution spans the full wireless spectrum, from 3G basestations and radio access networks to feature phones,” said Johan Wall, CEO at Enea. “Our memory-protected RTOS and HA middleware provide the pre-integrated framework equipment manufacturers need to get to market fast with reliable, low-cost systems that offer enhanced availability, scalability, and manageability. At the same time, our field-upgradeable DSP and deeply-embedded RTOSes, together with our flash-based database technology, provide an ideal platform for building compact, low-cost, low-power, feature-rich mobile devices.”

Enea DSO Portfolio

The foundation for Enea’s wireless DSO offering is a family of interoperable embedded operating systems, which share a common API and message-based interprocess communications model. Featuring cross platform support for Linux, Enea’s embedded OS family provides an end-to-end solution for wireless systems that spans high-performance CPUs, deeply embedded controllers, and digital signal processors.

Enea’s flagship OSE RTOS is a compact, pre-emptive, memory-protected RTOS that features automatic failure detection and health monitoring for system processes and applications, a power management system that extends battery life, and a crash-safe file system with flash support. Enea’s deeply embedded RTOS, Epsilon, and DSP RTOS, OSEck, occupy as little as 4 kbytes of memory, and feature fully-emptive, event-driven real-time response with a context switching speed of 300 nsec and a worst-case interrupt latency of 1 usec.

All three RTOSes features dynamic download capability which enhances mobile device flexibility by enabling new applications to be downloaded to systems as they operate in the field. They also feature a complete networking solu¬tion, including a dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack with MobileIP capability, and a comprehensive suite of networking applications, including DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, Telnet, Web Server, SSL and IPSec.

High-availability middleware

Element is an application development framework (ADF) and high-availability (HA) middleware for distributed network access systems. Element provides communications services that make it easy to develop complex distributed applications spanning multiple processors and operating systems. Element also provides instrumentation, fault management, upgrade management, and shelf management services that make it easy to monitor, provision, service, upgrade, and fine tune distributed networks.

Fault-tolerant embedded database

Polyhedra is an active SQL RDBMS that provides a secure, fault-tolerant, high-performance data repository for wireless applications. Featuring a small code footprint, Polyhedra uses a memory-resident design that boosts performance by up to an order of magnitude relative to conventional disk- and flash-based RDBMSs. Polyhedra is also available in a flash version (Polyhedra FlashLite) that substantially reduces mobile device cost, size and power consumption by enabling data to be stored in flash memory. Both versions are available for a broad range of operating systems, including OSE, VxWorks, Integrity, Linux, Windows and Unix.

About DSO

DSO is an industry initiative aimed at reducing development time, improving reliability, and optimizing performance for device software. DSO emphasizes an enterprise-wide approach to software development that leverages best practices and utilizes an open framework for interoperable, best-of-breed software components from multiple vendors. Enea is a charter member and key contributor at DSO.com, a web site that provides up-to-date information on the latest DSO trends, products, and participants. Enea is currently working with other DSO supporters to establish a formal industry group for DSO that would help formulate standards and provide advocacy for device software companies.