RIDGERUN DELIVERS BOARD SUPPORT PACKAGE FOR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
TMS320DSC21 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR

New BSP enables multimedia application designers to meet customer
demands in shorter development cycle 


Boise, ID - July 17, 2001 - RidgeRun, Inc., a leading developer of
embedded Linux (r) software and tools for appliances using digital
signal processing (DSP) components, today announced immediate
availability of its innovative Board Support Package (BSP) for the Texas
Instruments TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor. Key RidgeRun (tm)
development tools now fully back this Texas Instruments processor,
giving developers critical start-to-finish tools for software
development. 

This robust product offering allows embedded system developers to build
an embedded product quickly, start writing applications before hardware
is available, access royalty-free Open Source code to jump start
development and use the power of DSPs without expertise in DSP algorithm
development. Specifically, RidgeRun offers developers using the TI
TMS320DSC21 processor: 

   + The Open Source Linux Kernel optimized for the TI TMS320DSC21
processor.

   + Drivers for all the system-on-chip peripherals including on-screen
display, UART, compact flash and USB. 

   + The powerful Appliance Simulator to help multimedia and wireless
OEMs develop and implement products while access to hardware may be
limited. Among a variety of benefits, the appliance simulator allows
developers to run DSPLinux on a desktop PC within a simulated embedded
device, create and debug applications before running on actual hardware
and use the same cross-compile tools as needed for the actual target. 

   + The industry standard GNU software development tool suite is
configured for cross-compilation to allow you to develop code for
targets supported by DSPLinux. A compiler, assembler, debugger, linker,
Standard C library and utility programs for software development are
among the tools available in the RidgeRun DSC21 BSP. 


Availability:
The RidgeRun DSC21 BSP is available today through a flexible licensing
program for the DSPLinux BSP development tools and the proprietary
components of DSPLinux. The DSPLinux BSP license includes 30 days free
installation and configuration support, special access to DSPLinux.net,
and one year of free updates. E-mail sales@ridgerun.com for more
details. 


About the TI TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor:
The DSC21 combines on a single device the ultra-low power TMS320C5000
(tm) DSP to perform real-time media processing and an ARM7TDMI  (r) RISC
processor for system control functions. Programmable hardware multimedia
accelerators perform concurrent processing that boosts
application-specific imaging and video performance. As imaging and video
appliances take on real-time wireless capabilities, the DSC21
architecture will provide a future roadmap to other TI DSC
architectures, which will leverage TI's power-efficient TMS320C55x (tm)
DSP and TI-enhanced ARM9 (r). 


About RidgeRun, Inc.:
RidgeRun is exclusively focused on bringing the reliability and
flexibility of Linux to embedded Internet appliances based on DSPs
(digital signal processors). RidgeRun's DSPLinux leverages the power of
Texas Instruments dual-core DSP architectures to deliver the
performance-leading platform for wireless, broadband and multimedia
appliances. RidgeRun can be reached at http://www.ridgerun.com or by
e-mail to info@ridgerun.com .