ThreadX for Blackfin

Highlights

• Complete ADSP-BF5xx support
• VisualDSP++ Development Tool Support
• Reasonable pricing
• No Royalties
• Complete ANSI C source code
• Easy to use and powerful services
• Responsive Technical Support
• Unlimited Threads, Queues, Event Flags, Timers, Semaphores, Mutexes, Block Pools, and Byte Pools
• Flexible memory usage
• Timeout available on all thread suspension
• Advanced preemption-threshold technique
• Low-overhead Application Timers
• Size scales automatically
• Picokernel architecture for size and speed
• Small footprint (as low as 5 Kbytes)
• Fast Execution (110 cycles)

Improve Your Blackfin Development

Let our extensive experience with the ADSP-BF5xx family of microprocessors help your product development. ThreadX, our high-performance real-time kernel, helps improve your product's quality and its time-to-market. In addition, using ThreadX makes it easier to enhance your product in the future.

Blackfin Optimizations

ThreadX optimizes context switching on the Blackfin. When context switching occurs inside of a ThreadX service call, only the registers preserved across function calls are saved as part of the thread's context.

A similar technique is used in interrupt handling. On the front end of interrupt service routines, only the compiler's scratch registers are saved initially. The full register set is saved only if thread preemption is required.

VisualDSP++ Integration

ThreadX is fully integrated with the VisualDSP++ development tools, including advanced ThreadX-aware debugging and C library integration.