RTOS makes the most of latest comms processor

OSE RTOS technology is now available for Motorola's PowerQUICC III communications architecture.

OSE RTOS technology is now available for Motorola's PowerQUICC III communications architecture, and Motorola is already using the combination on a major network infrastructure project.

OSE's unique real-time and high-availability facilities, support for dynamic program loading, memory protection, and advanced system level debugging tools aid rapid development and time to market for network infrastructure applications looking at the PQ III.

The OSE beta release for PQ III has been verified by customers and prospects for bring up in just one day.

OSE for PowerQUICC III includes the OSE real-time operating system (RTOS), development tools and board support packages for Motorola's 8540 und 8560 processors.

OSE for PowerQUICC III features a modern high-availability architecture, an efficient communications framework for distributed systems, and RapidIO support.

These features make distributed communications networks based on OSE and PowerQUICC III the most reliable, powerful and flexible platforms in the industry.

OSE for PowerQUICC III will support the processor's RapidIO architecture.

The OSE message-passing programming model and link handler technology are a natural fit for the RapidIO switch fabric interconnect technology used in the PowerQUICC III.

OSE Link Handler provides high-performance and seamless distributed message-based communications between any number of CPUs per the RapidIO standard.

OSE developers can now take advantage of RapidIO's guaranteed delivery features and its data throughput of up to 10Gbit/s.

OSE for PowerQUICC III features a fully pre-emptive, multiprocessor-capable, small-footprint kernel, which has been designed for high-performance, distributed, multichannel, multifunction communications.

OSE uses direct message passing (DMP), the preferred mechanism for establishing interprocess communications between controllers, DSPs, network management and debug tools in telecomms and networking applications.

OSE also utilises PowerQUICC's hardware MMU to form a firewall that enhances reliability and availability by preventing kernel and application processes from corrupting each other.

High-availability features include automatic failure detection and supervision, which enhance reliability without compromising reliability.

Enea Embedded Technology offers complete tool support for OSE on PowerQUICC III.

This includes OSE Illuminator, an RTOS-aware, system-level analysis and profiling tool that enables programmers to monitor, control and collect data for applications viewed as a sequence of events.

OSE Illuminator is tightly integrated with the Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio (PowerQUICC III Edition), which addresses the complete software development cycle, from hardware evaluation, board bring-up, and OSE kernel adaptation, to application development, project management, RTOS-aware source-level and system-level debugging and code coverage.

Additional tool support includes the OSE Softkernel, which provides hardware simulation.

OSE board support packages are available for Motorola's 8560 ADS and Torridion boards, as well as GDA Technologies' RMC 8540.

Enea also supports Metrowerks' PowerTap Pro ICE (in-circuit emulator) for PowerQUICC III.

OSE for PowerQUICC III RTOS and the corresponding tools are available now.

The OSE LinkHandler for Rapid IO will be available by the beginning of 2004.

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