www.altreonic.com

As part of its participation activities in Embedded World 2010,
Altreonic's team is pleased to invite you to our following talks events :

1. Tuesday 2.3.2010, from 15:00–15:30

Session S1.6: REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS

OPENCOMRTOS: FORMALLY DEVELOPED RTOS FOR HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS
Dr. Bernhard Sputh, sr. software manager Altreonic

2. Thursday 4.3.2010, from 12.00-12.30  

Hall 11, stand 11-201

UNIVERSAL SCALABILITY AND HIGH RELIABILITY WITH ALTREONIC
Eric Verhulst, CEO/CTO Altreonic

Your presence will surely make these talks more interesting. you are always welcome to visit us at our booth :

Hall 11, stand 11-201.

3. Network further and meet Altreonic at the Artemis event.  

The ARTEMIS-JU Information Day Call 2010 which will take place from 1 March 2010 until 1 March 2010 at the Congress Cente Nuremberg Ost, Nuremberg, Germany.
See https://www.artemis-ju.eu/info_day_call_2010

We will be looking forward for your participation.

1. Meet us at Embedded World 2010, Industrie Messe, ESEC, ERTS2

remaining items available from here:
2. New Company Profile
3. Asynchroneous services for OpenComRTOS
4. Ethernet support for OpenComRTOS
5. Latency demo shows OpenComRTOS real-time determinism
6. Enhanced OpenTracer
7. Session based host services
8. OpenCookBook analyses dependencies

1. Meet Altreonic at Embedded World 2010, Industrie Messe, ESEC, ERTS2

This year the formal community met in Eindhoven (see FM week) . It was a unique opportunity as it brought together specialists from all over the world. It was also one of the first times that several complementary groups held their conference at the same location and in the same week. Altreonic had a well received paper at CPA ("OpenComRTOS: A Runtime Environment for Interacting Entities", see attached pdf). Formal methods are becoming not only mainstream but also a prerequisite in any development that has safety or security requirements. This is now clearly reflected in the recent versions of the IEC61508 and DO-178 safety standards. An interesting keynote was given by Jeannette Wing, professor at Carnegie Mellow and Assistant Director at the US National Science Foundation. While the topic was "Formal Methods for Privacy", she addressed the definition of what is meant with trustworthy systems very well. Simply said: Trustworthy = safety + security + privacy + usability. 

Altreonic has joined the DSP Valley cluster organisation. DSP Valley is a technology network organisation, focusing on the design of hardware and software technology for embedded processing systems.

DSP Valley groups over 50 members that include universities, research institutes and industrial companies. The next even organised by DSP Valley is a Business-to-Business (B2B) Matchmaking Forum on Tuesday December 3th, 2009 at Sportoase in Leuven (Belgium).

See www.dspvalley.com
 

Altreonic has released version 1.2 of its OpenVE with OpenComRTOS, its formally developed network-centric RTOS. This version features an improved link driver model, a much improved build system generating the code for heterogeneous target systems besides other small improvements. The hostserver was also upgraded with more functions to support access to host nodes for e.g. console access and graphics. The OpenTracer was redeveloped as well and now makes it easier to visualise large networks of nodes, including the details of the inter-node interactions.

OpenCookbook is Altreonic's web portal based product for developing systems or products supporting the engineering process from early requirements till the product is released for production. It implements a formalised engineering process providing tracebility between the different project entities (requirements, specifications, models composed of entities, workplan, development, verification, development and validation tasks). The major improvement of this release is the generation of the dependency tree, automatic bidirectional relationship links and a hyperlink document generator to produce a timestamped snapshot of the whole project. OpenCookbook, available for free as a set of drupal modules, can be downloaded from our website.

Altreonic has extended the offer for its heterogeneous OpenComRTOS supporting Win32 and ARM Cortex M3 bundled with the Luminary development kit for just 2995 euro. (excl. taxes and shipping).

What's included:

- OpenVE (supporting Windows, for Linux contact us).

- OpenComRTOS-MP for Win32, using MinGW

- OpenComRTOS-MP for ARM Cortex M3 (using GNU)

- OpenTracer (Windows only)

- A Luminary CodeSourcery LM3S6965 ETH development kit (see attached datasheet) and additionally a GNU-C toolset.

Altreonic has released v. 1.1 of its OpenVE for OpenComRTOS. This version was improved to better support heterogeneous target systems and has an easier interface to the host server. The Win32 version is available free of charge from our download section. OpenVE now supports a growing number of embedded targets as well (in Single Processor and Multi-Processor versions).

The current list includes: Xilinx MicroBlaze, Leon3, ARM Cortex M3 and the multi-core XMOS

In a demo set-up, boards with all supported targets were seamlessly programmed and demonstrated.

You can experience this seamless heterogeneous real-time processing first hand. For 2995 euro we deliver a bundle containing OpenComRTOS for Win32 and ARM Cortex M3, both supported from within OpenVE, the Event Tracer and  a Luminary LM3S6965 development kit. Applications can be seamlessly distributed over the host PC and the ARM board out-of-the-box. See OpenComRTOS for ARM bundle for more details.

When a crisis becomes an opportunity

The economic crisis we witness today has everything to be considered as a catastrophe, signalling the end of an economic dream. It might however be a lot better to see the crisis as a wake-up call. With hindsight, it is clear the crisis has been growing for about a decade and what we experience now is a painful correction. Rather than stretching the dream, we would do better by standing up and by looking forward. Beating the crisis means we create again real economic value, rather than (over-)consumption.