Enea OSE integrates Frescor solution

An Enea Embedded Technology product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 2, 2009

Enea has announced that its Enea OSE real-time operating system (RTOS) has been integrated with the Framework for Real-Time Embedded Systems based on Contracts (Frescor).

The combined Enea OSE and Frescor solution will allow developers to build optimised and reliable systems for a variety of application markets from media to mobile phones.

The Enea OSE and Contract Framework solution allows applications, including those from third parties, to request the system resources required for maximum quality of operation.

Using the same contract methodology, the system can then guarantee that the application will receive those resources regardless of any intervening factors or it can propose an alternative contract.

'The advanced scheduling technology that we have been developing with the Frescor consortium delivers reliable applications and systems that run at the highest levels of quality,' said Per Akerberg, president and chief executive at Enea.

'In addition, the framework offers a method of system integration well suited to markets where many software components are delivered as a single device, such at mobile phones and communications infrastructure,' he added.

Frescor is a consortium research project funded in part by the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme.

Its main objective is to integrate advanced flexible scheduling techniques directly into the embedded systems design methodology.

This is achieved by creating a contract model that specifies which are the application requirements with respect to the flexible use of the processing resources in the system, what resources must be guaranteed if the component is to be installed into the system, and how the system can distribute any spare capacity that it has, to achieve the highest usage rates for the available resources.

Enea OSE is a modular real-time operating system optimised for complex distributed systems requiring high availability and reliability.

Enea OSE's pre-emptive real-time response, memory protection, supervision, error handling, and run-time program loading make it suitable for building fault-tolerant distributed systems that offer true deterministic real-time behaviour with five nines or higher availability.