OpenComRTOS

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

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.

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.

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Developing embedded real-time applications can  be a daunting task. The engineer sits on top of hardware, which has limited memory and processing cycles available, but still the system must meet stringent real-time specifications. If size and power consumption are less of an issue, it can help to use a supersized processor, but that implies that the system is connected to the mains. Often, this is not an option. Power consumption is an environmental issue and size matters. Smaller often means less cost and allows to build smartness in the actuator or sensor itself.

Altreonic has announced the release of OpenComRTOS with support for transparent real-time programming of heterogeneous target systems, including multi-core CPUs. The product will be demonstrated at Embedded World in Nuernberg next week. Nominated for the Embedded Award at Embedded World, OpenComRTOS is the result of a four year effort to develop a network-centric RTOS (Real-Time Operating System).

This page is your entry point for downloading demo's, trial versions and production versions of our products.

Requirements: You must be a registered user providing address and contact details by email while requesting the product key. The product key is needed to unzip the installation file.

What is provided:

- A free download version of the Win32 version of OpenVE integrated with OpenComRTOS. This product is free of charge and carries no royalties. The default compiler tools are MinGW. Support is not included but provided on a voluntary basis. All issues will always be reponded to.

- Production versions as plug-ins to the Win32 or Linux version of OpenVE for specific targets (ARM, Leon3, MicroBlaze, XMOS). These products are available under a binary as well as an open licensing scheme. The Win32 or Linux version can be used as a simulator (single or multiprocessor) as well as a node in the target system (supports Debian).

- A free download version of OpenCookbook. OpenCookbook comes as a set of plug-in modules to the drupal CMS. It can be used with any drupal 5.X installation (e.g. on an ISP) or it can be used locally on a PC using e.g. EASYphp.

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LEON3 is a 32bit SPARC CPU used by the European Space Agency. It is available in commercial as well as in fault-tolerant versions with SEU capability from e.g. Gaisler Research. A first port was undertaken using a Xilinx FPGA board.

A small "ping-pong" test program using two tasks and two semaphores compiled down to 6092 bytes and was measured at 73  microseconds for a complete loop (clock frequency 50 MHz).

A first release is scheduled for end November.

Altreonic offers two main product lines in conjunction with services. A short overview:

"OpencomRTOS" is a formally developed network-centric RTOS. It supports from small microcontrollers to widely distributed networks of processing nodes, including nodes that run legacy OS like Windows or Linux. OpenComRTOS is the first network-centric RTOS that support heterogeneous systems in a transparent way.

Thanks to its formal development, it has unique properties like small code size, scalability, safety, portability even allowing developers to create their own services. It comes with the OpenVE Visual development Envorinment allowing a graphical definition of the application and powerful tracing tool to profile the events in the system. While customers can do their own ports, ARM, MicroBlaze, Leon3, PPC, XMOS and MLX16 are available for specific boards. Altreonic offers porting and customisation services as well.

"OpenVE" is a Visual programming and development environment for developing ans simulation real-time embedded applications. It allows to define in a visual way the target's topology (from single processor to heterogenuous networks) as well as the application diagram. Template code is generated so that the developer only has to provide the algorithmic code. Applications can be simulated first on a Windows or Linux platform and then run on the target just by recompilation. It also has some powerful debugging tools like our "OpenTracer". The latter allows to analyse the scheduling and interprocessor communication in a graphical way.

"OpenCookbook" is a web hosted environment supporting the systems engineering process flow. The framework is provided by the formalised systems engineering methodology of Altreonic, researched for 4 years at Open License Society. This framework is combined with the specific process flow an organisation has adopted. As a result, a specific process is created serving multiple purposes:

• Knowledge management

• Requirements and Specifications capturing

• Architectural modeling

• Workplan creation

• Task partitioning.

• Project management: development, verification, test and validation.

Altreonic creates the Cookbook in conjunction with the customer as a customer specific service.

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