T-Engine Forum is a
non-profit organization which develops an open standard for
real time
Real-time or real time describes various operations in computing or other processes that must guarantee response times within a specified time (deadline), usually a relatively short time. A real-time process is generally one that happens in defined ...
embedded system development and to develop ubiquitous computing environment. They develop open specifications for
ITRON,
T-Kernel and
ubiquitous ID architecture. The chair of T-Engine Forum is
Dr. Ken Sakamura.
History
In 1984
TRON Project was started by
Prof. Dr. Ken Sakamura of the
University of Tokyo. The project's goal was to design an open
RTOS kernel. The TRON framework defines a complete architecture for the different computing units.
ITRON became the most popular TRON architecture. ITRON specification promotion was done by the various companies which sell the commercial implementations. In 2002, T-Engine forum was formed to provide an
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
RTOS implementation based on ITRON specification known as
T-Kernel.
The
TRON Project was integrated into T-Engine Forum in 2010. Its activities have been taken over and continued by T-Engine.
Organisation
As of July, 2011 there are 266 members in T-Engine forum. Executive committee members includes Japanese companies like
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...
,
Hitachi
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,
NTT DoCoMo and
Denso. A-level members who are involved in design and development of specifications for T-Engine and
T-Kernel, or of
Ubiquitous ID technology includes companies likes
NEC and
Yamaha Corporation. B-level members who are involved in development of product using T-Engine specification and T-Kernel includes companies like
ARM,
Freescale,
MIPS Technologies,
Mitsubishi
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 1870 ...
,
Robert Bosch GmbH
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,
Sony Corporation,
Toshiba and
Xilinx. The supporting members and academic members involved with the forum includes many universities like
University of Tokyo, Japan and
Dalian Maritime University, China.
See also
*
TRON Project
*
ITRON
*
T-Kernel
References
External links
* , TRON
The Most Popular Operating System in the WorldKen SakamuraIntroducing the μT-KernelInformation about T-Engine, T-Kernel and μT-Kernel Programming
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Standards organizations in Japan
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