Enea's embedded software is gaining more market acceptance
as its multicore OS is now supporting Freescale and Netlogic
processor chips.
Enea will optimize its multicore software for the Freescale
processors targeting communications including the QorIQ,
PowerQUICC and Starcore DSPs with the intent to have support
available at first production silicon.
Signal processing optimized Enea OSEck real-time operating
system (RTOS) from Enea is now available for Freescale's
MSC825x multicore digital signal processor family.
Some of the key features of OSEck includes message-based
Enea LINX interprocess communications (IPC) services, occupies
less than 10 kbytes of memory (in a minimal configuration),
delivers fully pre-emptive, event-driven real-time response
with a context switching speed of 300 nsec and a worst-case
interrupt latency of 1 usec.
"The MSC825x family of DSPs is designed to offer superior
performance at substantially lower price points than competing
technologies," said John Dixon, DSP marketing manager
for Freescale's Networking & Multimedia Group. "We
are pleased that Enea is supporting our efforts to tip the
competitive landscape in our favor with a performance-tuned
version of OSEck designed to fully exploit the features
and optimizations in our latest DSP offering. Enea's OSEck,
LINX and DSPNet are a powerful software platform on which
to build high performance signal processing applications"
"Enea's OSEck is a very powerful and feature rich
real-time operating system, tuned to meet the specific requirements
of Freescale's multicore DSP-based systems," said Mathias
Båth, senior vice president of marketing at Enea.
"The combination of Enea OSEck, Optima development
tools and LINX along with Freescale's MSC815x and MSC825x
DSPs provide a comprehensive and powerful development platform
for developers of sophisticated next generation signal processing-based
systems."
Enea has also announced its Enea OSE Multicore Edition
realtime operating system and Enea Hypervisor now supporting
the Freescale's QorIQ family of multicore processors, including
the P2020 and P4080. The QorIQ processors are used for designing
communications equipment including routers, switches, radio
network controllers and long term evolution (LTE) radio
access nodes.
"One of the strengths of the QorIQ family of multicore
processors is the longstanding enablement support it has
received from outstanding partners such as Enea," said
Raja Tabet, vice president of Software and Systems with
Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Group. "We recognize
the significant contributions that our third-party partners
have made to the QorIQ ecosystem and applaud Enea's commitment
to support the QorIQ multicore processor family with an
outstanding enablement solution."
Enea has also expanded its strategic relationship with
Netlogic Microsystems by delivering Linux development environment
based on the Enea Linux Project Framework (ELPF) for the
NetLogic Microsystems Linux-based SDK. All Enea offerings
will be available across the NetLogic Microsystems' XLP,
XLR and XLS multi-core, multi-threaded processor families.
In addition, Enea will join Netlogic Microsystem's eNsemble
Multi-Core Alliance.
Enea says semiconductor alliances represent an important
front in the struggle to make multicore programming and
design more accessible to communications equipment manufacturers.
Enea's embedded software supports the latest multicore processors
from other leading vendors such as ARM, Cavium, and LSI.
"The market landscape has changed substantially over
the past year," said Per Åkerberg, president
and CEO of Enea. "Industry consolidation has opened
new opportunities for Enea to strengthen alliances with
a number of leading suppliers of multicore processors. This
is an exciting time at Enea as we extend our leadership
position by deepening our relationships with Freescale and
Netlogic."
