- Small-footprint (small as 2KB, automatic scaling)
- Fast execution (sub microsecond context switch)
- Supports all popular processors and tools (see below)
- TraceX system analysis support
- Advanced Technology:
- Preemption-Threshold™
- Event Chaining™
- Performance Metrics
- Execution Profiling
- Run-time and Static Stack Analysis
- Multicore Support (SMP and AMP)
- Downloadable Application Modules
- Memory Protection for Downloadable Application Modules
- Extensive ThreadX ecosystem
- Safety Certifications (DO-178B, FDA510(k), IEC61508, etc)
- Deployed in over 1,000,000,000 devices
- Full Source Code
- Royalty-Free
- ARM
- Atmel
- BlackFin
- CEVA-TeakLite-III
- ColdFire/68K
- Critical Link MityDSP/MityARM
- Energy Micro EFM32
- Freescale
- Fujitsu FM3
- G-Series
- Hitachi H8/300H
- Infineon XMC
- Leon3
- M-CORE
- MicroBlaze
- Microchip PIC24/dsPIC
- Microchip PIC32
- MIPS
- Nios II
- NXP
- Power Architecture
- Renesas RX
- Renesas SH
- Renesas V8xx
- SHARC
- ST Microelectronics STM32
- StarCore
- StrongARM
- Synopsys ARC
- TI ARM
- TI MSP430
- TMS320C54x
- TMS320C6x
- Univers A2P
- Win32
- x86/x386
- Xilinx ARM
- XScale
- Xtensa/Diamond
Power Architecture
ThreadX for Power Architecture
Highlights
Complete Power Architecture 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 Power Architecture Development
Let our extensive experience with the Motorola's Power Architecture 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.
Power Architecture Optimizations
ThreadX optimizes context switching on the Power Architecture. 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 Power Architecture developmenttools, including Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Diab, GNU, visionCLICK,SingleStep, and Green Hills MULTI development tools. AdditionalThreadX-aware debugging is available with the CodeWarrior, visionCLICK,SingleStep, and Green Hills MULTI.
