ThreadX for Power PC
Highlights
- Complete PowerPC family 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
5.5 Kbytes)
- Fast Execution (4.6 us context switch
@40MHz,
MPC860)
Improve Your PowerPC Development
Let our extensive experience with the Motorola's
PowerPC 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.
PowerPC Optimizations
ThreadX optimizes context switching on
the PowerPC. 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. This is typically
registers r14-r31.
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 (typically
r0 and r3-r12). The full register set is saved only if thread
preemption is required.
Easy to Use
ThreadX is designed for ease of use. Our
API is designed to be easy to understand, powerful and consistent.
The same is true with our reference manual and other supporting
documentation.
Development Tool Choices
ThreadX is completely compatible with all the major PowerPC development
tools, including Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Diab, GNU, visionCLICK,
SingleStep, and Green Hills MULTI development tools. Additional
ThreadX-aware debugging is available with the CodeWarrior, visionCLICK,
SingleStep, and Green Hills MULTI.
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