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Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Micrium | Subject: uC/OS-IITM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 April 2008
Support range expanded for RTOS and
network stack
Micrium products, including uC/OS-II and uC/TCP-IP, along with the uC/Probe monitoring tool, allow users to develop applications in a unified way without encountering compatibility issues.
Micrium's uC/OS-IITM real-time operating system (RTOS) and uC/TCP-IPTM network stack have been ported to Analog Devices' Blackfin family of microprocessors The company's uC/Probe monitoring tool is also fully compatible with Blackfin processors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Micrium components now support nearly 50 architectures, including ARM, Cortex, PowerPC, ColdFire, Blackfin and others".
"Supporting the Blackfin platform is a major addition to our portfolio and it demonstrates the growing adoption of our products across the embedded marketplace", said Jean Labrosse, President and CEO of Micrium.
"The Blackfin processors' performance - up to 600MHz - and architecture, with its rich instruction set, make uC/OS-II a great candidate for mixed control and signal processing applications".
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RTOS and IP stack switch to ST processors
Micrium has successfully ported its uC/OS-II real time operating system (RTOS) and uC/TCP-IP stack to ST Microelectronics' STR9 and STR7 processor families.
IDE is aware of RTOS kernel
Microchip Technology now provides kernel awareness for Micrium's uC/OS-II real-time operating system (RTOS) in its free MPLAB integrated development environment (IDE).
RTOS supports NXP's LPC3180
Micrium has announced that its uC/OS-II real time operating system (RTOS) and uC/OS-View have been ported on NXP's LCP3180 family of ARM9 processors.
Analog Devices' Blackfin embodies a new breed of 16/32bit embedded processor with the industry's highest performance and power efficiency for applications such as multiformat audio, video, voice and image processing; multimode baseband and packet processing and real-time security and control processing.
It is this powerful combination of software flexibility and scalability that has gained Blackfin widespread adoption in convergent applications such as digital home entertainment, networked and streaming media, automotive telematics and infotainment and digital radio and mobile TV.
"Embedded developers value Micrium's uC/OS-II real-time operating system for its small memory footprint, source code for advanced development and royalty-free licensing for product deployment", said Rick Gentile, Applications Engineering Manager in ADI's GP-DSP Division.
"Micrium's robust suite of embedded software components is a perfect fit with the Blackfin processors' wide range of integrated peripherals targeting markets from mobile media to high-power industrial applications".
"We work closely with Micrium to ensure the continued compatibility of Micrium and Blackfin products".
"Our customers that use the Micrium products always remind me that they have one less thing to worry about in their development".
Micrium's uC/TCP-IP stack is designed specifically for the demanding requirements of embedded systems and provides superior performance on the Blackfin processors, especially when used with DMA support, as on the BF537.
Other application layer protocols such as uC/DHCP, uC/DNS and uC/FTP are also available from Micrium and make uC/TCP-IP stack suitable for network applications on the Blackfin processors.
The combination of Micrium products, including uC/OS-II and uC/TCP-IP, along with the uC/Probe monitoring tool, allows users to develop applications in a unified way without encountering compatibility issues.
Ports of uC/OS-II are now available for Analog Devices BF533, BF537, BF548 and dual-core BF561, while ports of uC/TCP-IP are available for Analog Devices BF537 and BF548.
Available ports can be downloaded from the Micrium website.
Micrium's uC/OS-II RTOS is a highly portable, ROMable, scalable, pre-emptive real-time, multitasking kernel.
uC/OS-II can manage up to 255 tasks and provides: semaphores, event flags, mutual exclusion semaphores, message mailboxes and queues, task, time, timer and fixed sized memory block management.
uC/TCP-IP is a compact, reliable, high-performance TCP/IP protocol stack.
uC/TCP-IP is a clean-room design and not derived from publicly available Unix stacks, yet is compatible with the Berkeley 4.4 socket layer interface.
uC/TCP-IP can be used on 16, 32 and 64bit CPUs.
uC/Probe is a universal embedded systems monitoring tool that provides system feedback without the need to stop the application.
uC/Probe saves considerable development time by allowing users to see the internals of a running embedded application and to change settings and configuration values in the target.
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