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PrKERNELv4

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PrKERNELv4 for Nios II is a leading real-time operating system specifically designed for Nios II softcore processors on Altera's FPGAs. PrKERNELv4 has been pre-integrated seamlessly with the Nios II IDE as well as the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) to accelerate software application development for the Nios II family.  

 

key features:  

 

Preemptive kernel 

Reentrant design 

Compact and Scalable 

- Small footprint  

- User configurable 

High performance 

- Very low interrupt latency 

Advanced RTOS features 

- Priority inversion protection 

- Mutex support 

- Variable-sized Memory Pool 

- Alarm handler 

- Dynamic kernel object generation 

Includes diagnostic utilities 

- Monitors state of kernel objects 

- System trace 

Many system services can be activated from interrupt service routines 

Completely ROMable 

Supports CPU specific functions 

ITRONv4 compliant 

- Supports "standard" and "extended" profiles 

Complete source code provided 

 

 

contact information:  

 

eSOL, Inc.  

421 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1010 

Portland, OR 97204, USA  

Tel: 503-445-4484 

Email: sales@esolglobal.com  

Web: http://www.esolglobal.com/nios2 (http://www.esolglobal.com/nios2)
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Altera_Forum
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What is ITRONv4????

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Altera_Forum
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Hello.  

 

> What is ITRONv4????  

 

ITRONv4 is version 4 of the ITRON standard, which is an open-specification real time kernel standard. ITRONv4 was defined by an industry consortium and has been deployed worldwide since the 1980s by many vendors in diverse applications from consumer electronics to industrial automation. Some studies say that more than a billion ITRON-enabled devices have been shipped into the market.  

 

PrKERNELv4 conforms to this standard. The benefit for you as a user is that you can take advantage of this proven and widely used technology in your application. Combined with the full source code, this will give you [1] full control, [2] a robust, determistic kernel and [3] defacto standard technology instead of a proprietary kernel.  

 

Hope this helps.  

 

eSOL
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