ThreadX for Analog Devices SHARC Microprocessors

Highlights

• Complete ADSP-2106x 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 (Instruction area size: 6.5-30K)
• Fast Execution (ADSP-21060@40MIPS)

Improve Your SHARC Development

Let our extensive experience with the ADSP-2106x 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.

SHARC Optimizations

ThreadX optimizes context switching on the SHARC. 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-registers.

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.

Delay Slot Usage

ThreadX takes full advantage of SHARC branch delay slots for enhanced performance.

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 documentaion.