ThreadX for Texas Instruments C6x Family Microprocessors

Highlights

• Complete TMS320C6x 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 (200MHz, 0 wait-states, C6x)

Improve Your C6x Development

Let our extensive experience with the TMS320C6x 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.

C6x Optimizations

ThreadX optimizes context switching on the C6x. 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 A10-A15 and B10-B13.

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 (registers A0-A9 and B0-B9). The full register set is saved only if thread preemption is required.

Delay Slot Usage

ThreadX takes full advantage of C6x branch and load 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 documentation.