Infineon chooses low-overhead RTOS

The OSE Epsilon real-time operating system will be used in Infineon Technologies' E-Gold platform.

The OSE Epsilon real-time operating system will be used in Infineon Technologies' E-Gold platform.

Infineon's highly integrated GSM/GPRS baseband chip serves as the foundation for the development of wireless communications applications, such as data-enabled mobile phones.

The extremely compact OSE Epsilon kernel is well suited for embedded systems that require a small code size and fast response behaviour in real time.

With its E-Gold technology, Infineon targets and supplies the worldwide market for mobile handset manufacturers.

OSE Epsilon is an extremely fast operating system designed for high performance in limited-resource environments.

It is written completely in Assembler and requires as little as 4Kbyte of memory.

The operating system is pre-emptive, features integrated error handling, a context switch speed of 300ns, and an extremely quick interrupt latency of 1us.

Furthermore, the kernel offers network support, including TCP/IP, a web-server and Internet utilities.

OSE Epsilon is available in combination with the E-Gold chipset as part of Infineon's platform software.

Enea Embedded Technology offers development licences for system integrators that want to implement the chipset into their cellphones and need to modify the platform software.

In such cases, all production licence agreements are made through Infineon.

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