- 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
Freescale
ThreadX for Freescale Kinetis
Highlights
Complete Kinetis support, including K10, K20, K30, K40, K50, K60, K70 Complete Kinetis Development Tool Choices - ARM RealView, IAR Embedded Workbench, Wind River Workbench, Green Hills MULTI, Lauterbach, and GNU 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 4 Kbytes) Fast Execution (1.7us context switch@40MHz)
Improve Your Freescale Kinetis Development
Let our extensive experience with the Cortex-M4 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.
Kinetis Optimizations
ThreadX optimizes context switching on the Kinetis processor. 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, i.e. registers v1-v7, fp, and lr.
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 a1-a4). The full register set is saved only if thread preemption is required.
Easy Mixed-Mode Programming
ThreadX fully supports the 16-bit Thumb and Thumb-II extensions of the Kinetis architecture. Using ThreadX, developers can freely build their applications in Thumb and/or traditional 32-bit mode.
Flexible FIQ Interrupt Handling
By default, ThreadX leaves FIQ interrupts alone. This results in zero FIQ interrupt latency. However, in this configuration application FIQ processing is not allowed to call ThreadX services. ThreadX can also be configured to provide complete FIQ-support, which provides the application FIQ handler access to ThreadX services.
Nested Interrupt Handling
ThreadX can also be configured to support nested interrupt handling - for both IRQ and FIQ interrupt sources.
Evaluation Board Support
ThreadX Evaluation Licenses are available for all Freescale Kinetis development systems.
Development Tool Choices
ThreadX is integrated with all the major ARM development tools, including ARM RealView, Wind River Workbench™, Green Hills MULTI, IAR Embedded Workbench, Lauterbach, and GNU. ThreadX-aware debugging is available with ARM's RealView, Wind River Workbench, IAR's Embedded Workbench, Lauterbach's TRACE32, and Green Hills MULTI.
ThreadX for Freescale i.MX
Highlights
Complete i.MX support, including i.MX21, i.MX23, i.MX25, i.MX28, i.MX35 and i.MX51 Complete i.MX Development Tool Choices - ARM RealView, IAR, Wind River Workbench, Green Hills MULTI, Lauterbach, and GNU 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 4 Kbytes) Fast Execution (1.7us context switch@40MHz)
Improve Your i.MX Development
Let our extensive experience with the i.MX 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.
i.MX Optimizations
ThreadX optimizes context switching on the i.MX processor. 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, i.e. registers v1-v7, fp, and lr.
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 a1-a4). The full register set is saved only if thread preemption is required.
Easy Mixed-Mode Programming
ThreadX fully supports the 16-bit Thumb and Thumb-II extensions of the ARM architecture. Using ThreadX, developers can freely build their applications in Thumb and/or traditional 32-bit mode.
Flexible FIQ Interrupt Handling
By default, ThreadX leaves FIQ interrupts alone. This results in zero FIQ interrupt latency. However, in this configuration application FIQ processing is not allowed to call ThreadX services. ThreadX can also be configured to provide complete FIQ-support, which provides the application FIQ handler access to ThreadX services.
Nested Interrupt Handling
ThreadX can also be configured to support nested interrupt handling - for both IRQ and FIQ interrupt sources.
Evaluation Board Support
ThreadX demonstrations are available for all Freescale i.MX development systems.
Development Tool Choices
ThreadX is integrated with all the major ARM development tools, including ARM RealView, Wind River Workbench™, Green Hills MULTI, IAR Embedded Workbench, Lauterbach, and GNU. ThreadX-aware debugging is available with ARM's RealView, Wind River Workbench, IAR's Embedded Workbench, Lauterbach's TRACE32, and Green Hills MULTI.
Free Demo Downloads
ARM9ARM11Threadx_5.5_i.MX23_Freescale_PDK - IAR Tools Threadx_5.4_i.MX25_Freescale_PDK Threadx_5.5_i.MX28_IAR Tools
Cortex-M4Threadx_5.5_i.MX35_Freescale_PDK - IAR Tools
ThreadX Freescale Kinetis K40x - IAR Kickstart Kit ThreadX Freescale Kinetis K60x - IAR Kickstart Kit ThreadX and NetX for Freescale Kinetis K60x - IAR Kickstart Kit
ThreadX for Freescale ColdFire
Highlights
Complete ColdFire 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 3.3 Kbytes) Fast Execution (3.0 us context switch@40MHz, MCF5307 Board)
Improve Your Embedded Development
Let our extensive experience with the Freescale ColdFire 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.
ColdFire Family Optimizations
ThreadX optimizes context switching. When context switching occurs inside of a ThreadX service call, only the registers preserved across function calls are saved. This is typically registers a2-a6 and d2-d7.
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 a0, a1, d0, and d1). 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 documentation!
Development Tool Choices
ThreadX is completely compatible with all the major ColdFire and 68K 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.
Free Demo Downloads
ColdFireThreadX MCF51CN - CodeWarrior Tools ThreadX MCF51MM - CodeWarrior Tools ThreadX_EKG_Demo_for_MCF51MM_FTF2010_Demo ThreadX MCF5222x - IAR Tools ThreadX_5.3_mcf5475_codewarrior_7.2 ThreadX_5.3_mcf5329_codewarrior_7.2 ThreadX_5.3_mcf5253_codewarrior_7.2
