Editing ECos (section)

== Design ==
eCos was designed for devices with memory sizes in the range of a few tens or several hundred [[kilobyte]]s,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Larmour |first=Jonathan |date=May 2005 |title=How eCos can be shrunk to fit |url=http://i.cmpnet.com/embedded/europe/esemay05/esemay05p32.pdf |work=Embedded Systems Europe |page=34 |format=PDF |access-date=2007-04-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515055126/http://i.cmpnet.com/embedded/europe/esemay05/esemay05p32.pdf |archive-date=2006-05-15}}</ref> or for applications with real-time requirements.

eCos runs on a wide variety of hardware platforms, including [[ARM architecture|ARM]], CalmRISC, [[FR-V]], [[Hitachi H8]], [[IA-32]], [[Motorola 68000]], Matsushita AM3x, [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], [[NEC V850]], [[Nios II]], [[PowerPC]], [[SPARC]], and [[SuperH]].

The eCos distribution includes [[RedBoot]], an [[Open-source software|open source]] [[application software|application]] that uses the eCos [[hardware abstraction layer]] to provide [[booting|bootstrap]] [[firmware]] for [[embedded system]]s.