September 1, 2000

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Software support for faster Bluetooth development

As Bluetooth becomes a reality, companies designing new mobile devices will aim to get to market as cost-effectively and quickly as possible. So a real-time operating system (RTOS) with built-in Bluetooth support will provide a huge head start when it comes to adding wireless connectivity.

With this goal in mind, embedded software provider Microware Systems has announced plans to port Extended Systems’ Bluetooth protocol stack to its OS-9 RTOS. Instead of taking months to develop a custom Bluetooth stack, the logic goes, OS-9 developers can make a few simple modifications to their existing code.

Microware previously employed Extended Systems’ IrDA (Infrared Data Association) protocols within OS-9. Microware says Bluetooth for OS-9 will be available in the fall.

—Margot Suydam