Operating Systems Used in Embedded Systems - Volume 3: Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile OS
VDC Research Group, Inc, June 2008, Pages: 80
As part of its Embedded Software 2008 Market Intelligence Service, VDC Research Group (VDC) is pleased to release a study covering the worldwide market for embedded/real-time and mobile application operating systems employed in the development of embedded and mobile systems.
Specifically, our research efforts focused on the markets for:
- Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) as well as non real-time operating systems used in embedded applications; and
- Mobile application operating systems used in embedded applications.
MARKET OVERVIEW
Years ago, it was easier to identify an operating system vendor as a discrete type of supplier within the embedded software market. With increasing demands from embedded systems companies, expanding software requirements driven by the provision of more complex hardware components, and persistent competition among software providers – today’s embedded operating system vendor is quickly becoming a jack-of-all-trades. As a result, the majority of operating system suppliers currently competing within the embedded market are also in the business of providing development tools, middleware, professional services, and other key solution elements critical to their customers’ success.
In addition to this core shift within the competitive landscape, software solution suppliers are being influenced by a number of fundamental changes impacting the embedded industry on the whole, including:
- The rapid growth of the mobile device market and the emerging market for device-based services;
- The continuing rise in the availability and adoption of open source software;
- The availability of more complex system/hardware components/architectures; and
- The implementation of more sophisticated engineering methods in order to rapidly deploy more capable, connected embedded devices and systems.
VDC estimates that the embedded operating system market (as defined to include other complementary run-time software and tools sold by operating system suppliers) continues to experience year-over-year growth. In particular, the mobile and wireless portion of this market has fueled recent market expansion and VDC expects trends in this market segment to determine the course of new revenue opportunity in future years.
Although the competitive landscape is very broad in terms of the number of vendors within the market, the leading vendors represented the majority of total revenue. In 2007, VDC estimates that the leading supplier within the embedded/real-time and mobile application operating system market, represented more than one-third of the market, and the top three vendors represented over 75% of total revenue.
Report Statistics:
Market Forecast Coverage: 2007-2010
Total Pages: 80
Total Exhibits: 32
Phone Survey Sample: 25
Web Survey Sample: 797
Profiled Vendors and Products: 13
Report Scope
Specifically, our analysis includes revenue from companies that offer the above operating system types, in cases where operating system and bundled product revenue represents a majority of product sales. Therefore, also included within this analysis is other licensing revenue for operating system suppliers that may also be derived from:
- Development tools;
- Middleware;
- Product maintenance and support; and
- Professional services fees.
Specifically excluded from this analysis is revenue from companies or business units that that derive a majority of revenue from development tools, professional services, and other product that are not specifically associated with the sale of their own operating system. The report contains estimates for 2007 shipments of embedded Linux-related solutions and forecasts of shipments through 2010. Estimates and forecasts of shipments are segmented by:
- Product Category
- Industry
- Geographic Region
- Leading Vendor/Supplier (Based on 2007 estimates of shipments)
I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Market Overview
Strategic Issues, Trends, and Market Drivers
Market Estimates
Competitive Landscape
Summary and Observations
II SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
SCOPE
METHODOLOGY
Definitions
Industry Segmentation
Product Category Segmentation
Regional Segmentation
III MARKET OVERVIEW
IV STRATEGIC ISSUES, DRIVERS, AND TRENDS
KEY MARKET TRENDS
Growing Embedded System/Device Complexity and Increased Software
Content
Strong Influence of the Mobile Device Market
Growing Focus on Enabling Device/System Services
Core Operating System Technology Becoming Less of a Solution Differentiator
Continued Erosion of Software Solution Partnerships and Remaining Diversity of Licensing Models
Semiconductor and Board Suppliers Investing in Hardware Enablement through Software
Systems Companies Actively Driving the Market
Sustained Influence of Open Source Software
Growing Number of Solutions Targeted at Virtualization and Multi-core
Processing
KEY MARKET DRIVERS
KEY MARKET INHIBITORS
V MARKET ESTIMATES AND FORECASTS
VI COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
Microsoft
Symbian
Wind River Systems
Green Hills Software
Enea
ACCESS
MontaVista Software
QNX Software Systems
LynuxWorks
Mentor Graphics
Express Logic
SYSGO AG
Micrium
eCosCentric
Other Market Participants
VII VENDOR PROFILES
ACCESS CO, LTD
ENEA
EXPRESS LOGIC, INC.
GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE
LYNUXWORKS, INC.
MENTOR GRAPHICS
MICRIUM
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
MONTAVISTA SOFTWARE
QNX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
SYMBIAN
SYSGO AG
WIND RIVER SYSTEMS
VIII SUMMARIES AND OBSERVATIONS
LIST OF EXHIBITS
IV STRATEGIC ISSUES, DRIVERS, AND TRENDS
IV-1 Expected Increase in the Total Lines of Software Code on the Next Project
(Average of Respondents)
IV-2 Current and Expected Device/System Software Requirements (Percent of
Respondents)
IV-3 Percent of Respondents Using an Open Source Operating System on the
Previous, Current, and Next Project (Percent of Respondents)
IV-4 Current and Expected Characterization of the Processor Design (Percent of
Respondents)
IV-5 Current and Expected Use of Operating System Virtualization on the Target
Device/system (Percent of Respondents)
V MARKET ESTIMATES AND FORECASTS
V-1 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010
(Millions of Dollars)
V-2 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-3 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-1a* Alternate Forecast of Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and
Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related
Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-3a* Alternate Forecast of Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating
Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of
Dollars)
V-4 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Product Category (Percent of Dollars)
V-5 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category (Percent
of Dollars)
V-6 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category (Percent
of Dollars)
V-7 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Product Category; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-8 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category; 2007-
2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-9 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category; 2007-
2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-10 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Geographic Region (Percent of Dollars)
V-11 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent
of Dollars)
V-12 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region
V-13 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Geographic Region; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-14 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region; 2007-
2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-15 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region; 2007-
2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-16 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Vertical Market (Percent of Dollars)
V-17 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of
Dollars)
V-18 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of
Dollars)
V-19 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Vertical Market; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
V-20 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market; 2007-2010
(Millions of Dollars)
V-21 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market; 2007-2010
(Millions of Dollars)
VI COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
VI-1 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application
Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by
Leading Vendors (Percent of Dollars)
VI-2 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Leading Vendors (Percent
of Dollars)
VI-3 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle
Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Leading Vendors (Percent
of Dollars)
VI-4 Target Operating System Used for the Previous Project, Current Project, and
Planned for Next Project (Percent of Respondents)
The Embedded/Real-time and Mobile Application Operating Systems study leads to the conclusion that the overall embedded software code base may be growing at a rate of approximately 9% per year.
Comparatively larger code size is not always an indicator of more complex system functionality, as smaller code bases often result from superior coding techniques and more efficient use of system resources. However, this data supports the idea that system complexity is driving the need for greater amounts of software content per project.
Because of their correlation with relatively larger overall code bases, VDC expects projects using commercial and open source operating systems to represent the bulk of total embedded software code base growth going forward. Furthermore, VDC’s findings suggest that engineers working on projects using commercial, open source, and in-house operating systems, as well as those using no formal operating system (running on their target system), all expect, on average, to employ significantly greater amounts of software code on their next embedded design. While data from VDC’s 2008 Embedded System Engineering Survey suggests slightly slower average rates of expected growth in the lines of code per project than in previous years, the average embedded system engineer anticipates an increase of over 20% (as shown by the mean above) in the total lines of software code on their next project.
“The average embedded system/device continues to require greater amounts of software to serve the requirements of both suppliers and end users. Among many other functions, today’s embedded systems demand more sophisticated system interfaces, incorporating increasingly complex graphical elements as well as advanced wired and wireless communication capabilities,” says Matt Volckmann, Program Manager with VDC’s Embedded Software Practice. “As a result of a greater overall focus on software as means to enable increased functionality, a large number of embedded systems manufacturers are currently dedicating more of their resources to software engineering tasks.
Project teams developing, testing, and managing larger, more complex code bases may obtain their software from a number of third party and in-house sources, including:
- Code leveraged from previous designs
- Commercial software solutions
- Using open source solutions
- Code developed in-house using more efficient tools or larger engineering teams
- Code generation technologies
Commercial vendors report that customers evaluating embedded operating systems typically are seeking to satisfy a growing list of specific product requirements – and that vendors without adequate offerings in these areas are often not considered as part of a more thorough evaluation. Solutions supporting more complex system user interfaces and communication stacks such as USB connectivity, TCP/IP, and wireless communication protocols are currently in high demand within a majority of projects. Most vendors have therefore either built these solutions in-house to complement their offerings or satisfied these through partnerships in order to fill gaps within their offerings. These market factors are quickly turning operating system vendors into software stack platform providers.
VDC explores these and other critical issues within the report, Volume 3: Embedded/Real-time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, from Track 1 of VDC’s 2008 Embedded Software Market Intelligence Service. This report includes in-depth analysis of findings from VDC’s 2008 Embedded System Engineering Survey segmented by operating system type.
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