The Sunnyvale, California-based embedded Linux specialist will provide Kawasaki, Japan-based NEC Electronics with MontaVista Linux for use in its embedded devices, including mobile phones, digital consumer, and car navigation products.
According to the vendors, the use of Linux will enable device manufacturers to build products with lower development costs and reduced time to market by providing a standard platform for complex embedded devices.
NEC Electronics will also join MontaVista’s Linux Support Package certification program and will provide LSPs for MontaVista Linux Professional Edition using the MontaVista Linux Board Support Toolkit.
The two companies also announced that they are to work together to discuss the potential joint development of an integrated development environment for multi-core processors.
