RadiSys Microware OS-9 Blog

RadiSys GmbH to Exhibit with Embedded4You at SPS/IPS/Drives 2007

Join us at SPS/IPS/Drives (http://www.mesago.de/en/SPS/main.htm) for an industrial automation technology exhibition November 27 – 29, 2007 at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany. RadiSys is participating with Embedded4You (http://www.embedded4you.com/index.php) in Hall 7, booth 7A-345 with Embedded4You members aicas, Avnet, Elma Trenew, N.A.T., RST, Radisys, VSystems and Xisys. The companies are demonstrating the latest developments in advanced embedded system hardware and software. We are featuring an OS-9 multi-core robotics demo powered by the OS-9 real-time operating system, Fedora Linux general processing operating system and VirtualLogix VLX virtualization software. The demonstration is being run on a RadiSys Endura Mini-ITX board featuring an Intel Core Duo processor. OS-9 provides the exceptional real-time solution for new hybrid, virtual computing environments.

In addition, we are supporting MicroSys (http://www.MicroSys.de) electronics GmbH in Hall 8, Booth 8-509 with the introduction of a graphic development kit for embedded Power Architecture applications.  The kit utilizes an innovative MPX standard based MPC5200 system with the Microware ® OS-9 RTOS and the proven XiBase9 graphic system.

Contact us at Tel: +49 811 555457-0 for more details or reserve your private OS-9/VLX/Linux demonstration. We look forward to seeing you at SPS/IPS/Drives 2007!

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Create Hybrid Real-Time and General Purpose Systems Utilizing Mutli-Core and Virtualization

October 23, 2007

Presented by: RadiSys, Intel and VirtualLogix
Time: 2pm EST or 11am PST

Industrial automation original equipment manufacturers often are faced with conflicting requirements: they need fast, guaranteed response times from software that’s controlling high speed machinery while at the same time they need to have general purpose database and network connectivity with legacy application support. The typical solution to this problem – use two or more cpu boards, one dedicated to real-time, another dedicated to general purpose use – is expensive, lowers reliability, increases power consumption, and requires additional cooling.

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October 23, 2007

Presented by: RadiSys, Intel and VirtualLogix
Time: 2pm EST or 11am PST

Industrial automation original equipment manufacturers often are faced with conflicting requirements: they need fast, guaranteed response times from software that’s controlling high speed machinery while at the same time they need to have general purpose database and network connectivity with legacy application support. The typical solution to this problem – use two or more cpu boards, one dedicated to real-time, another dedicated to general purpose use – is expensive, lowers reliability, increases power consumption, and requires additional cooling.

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RadiSys Releases OS-9 v4.8 for PowerPC and ARM/StrongARM processors

RadiSys Corporation has released v4.8 of OS-9 for the PowerPC and ARM/StrongARM processors.   Significant changes for the v4.8 release include:

• RomBug was enhanced to have a “dt” command that can be used to dump ASCII text from memory. It supports any EOL (CR, LF, or CRLF).
• The OS-9 kernel was enhanced to support an alarm pre-allocation facility. A new alarm flag (TH_ALLOC) was created. This flag, when passed to _os_salarm_set() or _os_salarm_cycle(), will cause the kernel to allocate an alarm, but not schedule the alarm. The alarm can be scheduled at a later time by using _os_salarm_reset(). To stop, but not free, a pre-allocated alarm call _os_salarm_delete_sp() without the TH_ALLOC flag. To stop and free a pre-allocated alarm call _os_salarm_delete_sp() with the TH_ALLOC flag. Like other system-state alarms, pre-allocated alarms can be owned by either the calling process or the system process. In the latter case, they will not be freed until explicitly freed.
• A collection of APIs and tools to allow real-time debug logging from your applications and system code was added to OS-9. In addition, the memory allocation and threading routines have been heavily instrumented to aid the detection of problems in both of these oftentimes problematic areas.
• A framework for the development of CANbus drivers and communication protocols is now available.
• A large number of additional PowerPC board support packages have been added to the distribution.
• HawkEye now supports customizing the timer it uses.
• The C heap routines (malloc(), free(), etc.) in the standard C libraries have been rewritten to improve performance in terms of both increased speed and reduced memory usage.
• The CSL strategy has been enhanced to better separate non-threading and threading applications using CSL. This can result in significant performance improvements for non-threaded applications.
• The Ultra C/C++ code generators (back-ends) were enhanced to run 2 to 15 times faster when processing large functions.

Contact RadiSys on ordering details to receive your copy.

Create Hybrid Real-Time and General Purpose Systems utilizing Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors

A RadiSys OS-9/VLX/Linux Webinar on September 12, 2007

4:00pm CET / 10:00am EDT (1 hour)

RadiSys Microware OS-9 brings real-time functionality to Fedora Linux with VirtualLogix’s VLX virtualization. This new software computing environment supports concurrent operation of real-time and general purpose tasks on popular Intel Core Duo-based boards such as RadiSys Procelerant COM Express and Endura Mini-ITX. Companies can reduce hardware costs by merging traditionally separate processing environments onto one Intel Core2 Duo-based platform. RadiSys provides a hybrid, multi-processing environment that runs faster, runs cooler and integrates faster than a collection of individual real-time and general purpose systems.

Kei Thomsen, a well known technical expert from RadiSys, will cover the following subjects:  

• Virtualization  concepts on Multicore architectures  
  • Where  are we today and the benefits for new system designs
• Introduction to the RadiSys solution, which integrates the OS-9 real time operating system, VLX Real-Time Virtualization targeting Intel Core 2 Duo processors. This platform offers:
  
  • Reliable real time operation with high performance  computing
  • Complex graphical user interfaces with the broad range of demanding communication infrastructures, such as HTTP, SSL, NTP, SSH, etc.

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Download the Eclipse Plug-in for OS-9

We are pleased to announce the availability of its Eclipse CDT based plug-in for the OS-9 real-time operating system. The v1.0 plug-in is freely available to all current OS-9 customers. For complete information on how to get your free Eclipse OS-9 plug-in download the Getting Started Guide.