Timesys Corporation
Company typePrivately held company
Industry
  • Embedded Software
  • Cybersecurity
Founded1995; 29 years ago (1995)[1]
HeadquartersPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Key people
Atul Bansal, CEO[2]
ProductsVigiles
Owner
Number of employees
60
Websitewww.timesys.com

Timesys Corporation is a company selling Linux open source software security, engineering services, and development tools, for the embedded software market. The firm also helps software development teams build and maintain a custom Linux platform for embedded processors from integrated circuit manufacturers such as Atmel, Freescale, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx.[3]

On December 12, 2023, Lynx Software Technologies announced that it had completed the purchase of TimeSys Corporation.[4]

History

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was founded in 1995 by principals associated with Carnegie Mellon University and initially provided the first real-time enhanced embedded Linux distribution,[5][6] known as Timesys Linux/RT. Timesys joined the OSDL in 2003,[7] and in 2004, was the first to register a carrier-grade Linux distribution.[8]

In 2005, Timesys open-sourced their software.[9] At that time, the firm announced LinuxLink, a software development framework[10] that helps embedded software development teams configure, patch, build and maintain an open source Linux platform. It includes a Linux kernel, GNU toolchain, packages and libraries and development tools. Subscribers are provided with regular updates, documentation and support.

All Linux platform components and updates are open source and are provided through the LinuxLink Factory custom platform builder.[11] Embedded Linux platforms, developed and maintained through LinuxLink, exist in hundreds of consumer electronics, medical device, industrial automation and networking products.[1] LinuxLink evolved to become a portal for customers to gain access to cybersecurity products and services, development tools, and to ask for help.

Timesys added end-to-end device security in 2019. Vigiles is a vulnerability and mitigation tracker for automatically identifying, monitoring and tracking vulnerabilities specific to a developer's actual product configurations, along with triage and mitigation collaboration tools to fix issues.[12] Timesys provides secure by design services, to implementsecurity features including secure boot, over-the-air updates, device encryption, hardening, and security audits. For long-term support of embedded devices, Timesys offers a Linux OS board support package maintenance service.

References

  1. ^ a b "About Timesys". Company web site. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
  2. ^ "Timesys Management Team". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Supported Processor Families". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Lynx Software Technologies Announces Acquisition of Timesys Corporation". Business Wire. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  5. ^ "TimeSys announces availability of Linux/RT 1.0". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09.
  6. ^ "TimeSys issues position statement on MontaVista real-time". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28.
  7. ^ "TimeSys joins OSDL with focus on Carrier Grade Linux". Archived from the original on 2012-09-10.
  8. ^ "TIMESYS FIRST TO REGISTER CARRIER GRADE LINUX DISTRIBUTION". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  9. ^ "TimeSys drops distro model, embraces "roll-your-own" embedded Linux services". Archived from the original on 2012-09-04.
  10. ^ "Timesys LinuxLink: Build Embedded Linux Based Devices — Quickly". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Timesys Factory(TM) — 'No Compromise' Custom Platform Builder". Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Timesys Vigiles Brings Real-time Vulnerability Monitoring, Targeted Risk Mitigation, Advanced Patch Notification to Embedded System Development". Timesys Embedded Linux. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2021-08-10.

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