MontaVista DevRocket provides all the functionality the platform developer requires to create and deliver a MontaVista Linux®-based development platform. Tightly integrated with the MontaVista Integration Platforom, DevRocket allows you to quickly and easily:

• Download source code or binaries from the MontaVista Zone Content Server
• Enable and boot your target board
• Build a cross development environment
• Customize, debug, and analyze your target image

Streamlined Creation of Target File System Images

Platform developers need to find, integrate, and install dozens, sometimes hundreds of separate software components, but creating a target file system by hand is time-consuming, difficult, and complex. DevRocket radically simplifies this task by downloading the source code for your hardware from the MontaVista Zone Content Server, and performing the initial build. DevRocket offers developers an easy-to-use graphical interface for customizing the build, dynamically determining file system size, and automatically resolving dependencies and conflicts.

Once you have an image created, the target management features in DevRocket make it easy to move your image to the target board and boot it.

Cross-Development Environment

DevRocket makes it easy to create a custom image for your target board. Using the GUI, developers can pick and choose the packages they need from MontaVista's collection of recipes, add recipes from the open source community, or integrate custom code from you own SCM system.

Best-of-Breed Analysis Tools

Linux platform analysis tools require specialized expertise and persistent maintenance to keep current with the Linux kernel and other open source technologies. Generic open source versions or tools originally meant for RTOS analysis come up short in real-world embedded Linux development. DevRocket features analysis tools specifically for the platform developer working with embedded Linux, delivering must-have capabilities like KGDB for kernel debugging, Memtraq for memory analysis and leak detection, and Oprofile for statistical profiling.

Graphical, Intuitive System Characterization

Traditional Linux command line interface (CLI) tools can make it difficult to characterize a target system over time. DevRocket meets this challenge by integrating the best-of-breed CLI-based Linux Trace Tookit (LTTng) into an intuitive and accessible graphical user interface, enabling developers to measure and characterize target systems more quickly and easily.

Broad Target and Host Support Protects Developer Investment

DevRocket supports all the hardware platforms MontaVista supports.By providing a common look and feel across Linux development hosts, DevRocket provides a cross-development platform for development teams working across diverse environments. This broad platform and host support gives development teams the flexibly, continuity and interoperability to tailor their development platforms to their technical needs and team logistics.