eCos is a good choice when flash and DRAM footprint matters, while an RTOS or deeply embedded operating system with a rich feature set is required. eCos can be configured to exclude unused features thus optimising flash and DRAM footprint.

Zylin is directly involved in the development effort for the open source eCos effort not only for Nios but also for a range of other hardware devices.

If you have an application that you would like to port to eCos for any architecture, get in touch with us to learn how we can help you.