RTOS, Greenhills, 32-bit Microcontrollers, NEC

Green Hills RTOS announced for NEC Electronics V850 32-bit Microcontrollers

News Release from: Green Hills Software
18/03/2008

Green Hills Software has announced that its µ-velOSity RTOS is now available for the NEC Electronics V850 family of embedded microcontrollers. With a ROM footprint as small as 2K bytes, RAM footprint as small as 1K bytes, and service call times as low as 30 cycles, µ-velOSity is ideal for the cost-sensitive, high-performance applications for which V850 is intended.

µ-velOSity is said to be extremely easy to use. With complete kernel source code and MULTI’s kernel-aware debugging and project-creation wizard, V850 device software is easy to develop, analyze, debug, test, and optimize for any aspect of the system.

µ-velOSity provides extremely fast operating system services and real-time, deterministic execution. Context switching, service calls, and interrupt handling for V850 are finely tuned for maximum throughput and minimum latency, even under heavy loads – making it ideal for devices with demanding performance requirements.

µ-velOSity’s industry-leading small footprint makes it ideal for embedded systems that have the tightest memory constraints. µ-velOSity is delivered as a library and is automatically configured by the Green Hills tool chain to include only those services that are actually used by the applications, delivering the smallest, most efficient footprint possible.

µ-velOSity does not have a per-unit royalty charge, avoiding the headache of royalty reporting and making it ideal for high-volume, cost-sensitive V850-based embedded products. Green Hills Software’s attractive licensing model enables µ-velOSity to be included in a value-added solution for end product developers at a fraction of the cost of other offerings.

“The V850 cores present an ideal architecture for the Green Hills Software µ-velOSity real-time operating system which specializes in top performance, ease-of-use, and small memory and power footprint,” commented David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer of Green Hills Software. “On top of all of this, Green Hills offers royalty-free, simple business models which are critical to those employing V850 in high-volume electronic products.”