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News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: Micro-Velosity
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 August 2006
Royalty-free RTOS expands Freescale
support
The micro-Velosity royalty-free real-time operating system has expanded its support of Freescale processor families.
Green Hills Software has announced its micro-Velosity royalty-free real-time operating system has expanded its support of Freescale processor families As a result, the benefits of micro-Velosity are extended into more markets, such as automotive, networked appliances and consumer electronics
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Micro-Velosity is the latest addition to its Integrity family of compatible real-time operating systems from Green Hills Software.
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The micro-Velosity RTOS is now available for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor.
Freescale processor families added to the micro-Velosity offering include the MPC555x, MPC85xx, ColdFire MCF54xx, i.MX31 and MAC71xx.
This expanded support enables developers to deploy a wider range of products based on the most technologically advanced microkernel designed for resource-constrained, performance-critical, and cost-sensitive embedded systems.
Many of Freescale's 32bit processors and microcontrollers target high-volume, cost-sensitive markets such as consumer electronics and automotive.
With its royalty-free and friendly OEM business model, micro-Velosity is well-suited to such target markets, enabling device makers to achieve a significantly lower production cost than is possible with competing offerings that require per-unit or large up-front runtime license charges.
In addition, the tools integration with Green Hills' Multi IDE, TimeMachine tool suite, optimising compilers, and debug probes enable developers to create a more reliable product while bringing it to market sooner.
Micro-Velosity's most performance-critical operations, such as context switching, interrupt handling, and system call servicing, are finely optimised by a combination of the world's best ARM, ColdFire, and Power Architecture compilers and painstaking hand-coding of a small number of assembly code sequences.
The result is a real-time kernel with industry-leading performance in terms of execution throughput and response time.
Yet with ROM and RAM footprints as small as 1600 and 1000byte, respectively, micro-Velosity frees device makers to employ their precious memory resources for more and better application-level functionality.
The Green Hills micro-Velosity real-time operating system is available today for Freescale's processors built on Power Architecture technology, ColdFire microcontrollers and applications processors based on ARM cores. Request a free brochure from Green Hills Software ...
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