Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS now supports Luminary Micro’s Stellaris microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller core.

Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS now supports Luminary Micro’s Stellaris microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller core.

Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS) with over 300 million deployments, today announced that its ThreadX® RTOS scored highly in the 2006 CMP Media “State of Embedded Market Survey,” of 1,217 embedded developers.

Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that product deployments of its popular ThreadX RTOS now total in excess of 300 million units.

Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS now supports the ARM CortexTM-M3 microprocessor. This implementation of ThreadX delivers a small footprint, fast RTOS, designed specifically for deeply embedded applications based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. Target applications include high-volume consumer, automotive and industrial devices. ThreadX is especially appropriate for these heavily resource-constrained, microcontroller-based designs, offering low-overhead real-time responsiveness and deterministic behavior, in as little as 4K bytes of ROM or flash memory.

Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and Interpeak, a pioneer of Internet and secure networking software for embedded systems, today announced that the companies have integrated Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS and Interpeak’s TCP/IP stacks. ThreadX customers will now be able to incorporate Interpeak’s advanced security and networking applications into their high performance and small footprint embedded devices.

Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS has been selected by Datang Mobile Communications Equipment for its third-generation wireless phones. Datang Mobile, a leading telecommunications corporation in China, will be using ThreadX for its products in the TD-SCDMA field.

Talks are underway for Datang to use ThreadX to manage the software controlling RF communications between the phone and network base stations. This agreement would distribute ThreadX throughout the world.

Express Logic is presenting two technical papers at the 2005 ARM Developers Conference in Santa Clara, October 4-6. The first of its two papers, "Analysis of an SMP RTOS for ARM’s MPCore Multiprocessor" (Wed., Oct. 5th, at 10:15 AM in room 209) explores the adaptation of the ThreadX RTOS to support ARM’s new MPCore multiprocessor. Express Logic will discuss the benefits of the automatic load-balancing that ThreadX/SMP brings to computationally demanding applications. On Thursday, October 6, Express Logic presents a second paper, “Network Stack and File System Awareness With ARM’s RealView Debugger" at 9:15 AM in room 212. This paper will discuss unique extensions to ARM’s RealView debugger that provide insight into the internal data structures of Express Logic’s NetX TCP/IP network stack, and its FileX embedded file system.

Thanks to the solid reputation Express Logic has gained in the consumer device market, MIPS customers specifically requested that ThreadX be available for the MIPS32 24K and 4KE cores. As the two companies explored the suitability of coming together, they were impressed with each of their strengths: 1) ThreadX is a small-footprint, highly efficient RTOS used by developers to manage the multiple operations of today’s sophisticated consumer electronics devices; 2) ThreadX is 100% royalty-free, making it ideal for high-volume consumer products where minimum manufacturing cost is a must; 3) MIPS32 24K and 4KE processor core families offer outstanding performance, size and power consumption; 4) Together, MIPS & ThreadX form an ideal platform for development of high-performance, low-cost, high-volume, consumer electronics products that must reach the market quickly.

Thanks to the solid reputation Express Logic has gained in the consumer device market, MIPS customers specifically requested that ThreadX be available for the MIPS32 24K and 4KE cores. As the two companies explored the suitability of coming together, they were impressed with each of their strengths: 1) ThreadX is a small-footprint, highly efficient RTOS used by developers to manage the multiple operations of today’s sophisticated consumer electronics devices; 2) ThreadX is 100% royalty-free, making it ideal for high-volume consumer products where minimum manufacturing cost is a must; 3) MIPS32 24K and 4KE processor core families offer outstanding performance, size and power consumption; 4) Together, MIPS & ThreadX form an ideal platform for development of high-performance, low-cost, high-volume, consumer electronics products that must reach the market quickly.

News headlines have been following the findings and photos of Deep Impact, the spacecraft pair designed and built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., which excavated material from the deep-space comet Tempel 1. What mainstream editors didn’t delve into was what enabled NASA’s successful mission to take place. Notably, Express Logic’s ThreadX and Green Hills Software’s MULTI played key roles in the mission. All three cameras tracking the mission progress were managed and operated by the ThreadX RTOS. MULTI provided the IDE used to support all the software for the project.

A recent survey conducted by CMP queried developers about the operating systems they used and planned to use. ThreadX ranked third highest among the hard real-time operating systems selected surpassed only by Wind River and QNX. Take a look at the numbers of the various vendors in the release, linking directly to the CMP article for more details. (Due to varying formatting issues, please link to the Express Logic site for a complete version of the release.)