Express Logic Announces ThreadX® RTOS Support for Renesas SH7216 Series Microcontrollers

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 2, 2010 -- Full source code, royalty-free RTOS, HEW integration now available

March 2, 2010 – Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany ― Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS now supports Renesas Technology’s SH-2A core-based SH7216 microcontroller (MCU). Designed for small footprint, demanding real-time control, the ThreadX RTOS is a perfect match for the SH7216, an integrated connectivity chip targeting real-time control applications. Express Logic’s support technology—NetX™ TCP/IP and USB Host/Device/OTG stacks—also supports the SH7216’s connectivity needs.

“Express Logic’s leadership in royalty-free real-time operating systems makes them an ideal fit for the high-volume applications we target,” said Robert Kalman, Marketing Manager, Renesas Technology Europe. “ThreadX presents a small memory footprint with an easy-to-use, rich set of system services such as threads, message queues, counting semaphores, and mutexes. Embedded developers wanting a taste of our combined strengths can check out an evaluation version and demonstration application available for our SH7216 MCUs.”

Although its been introduced recently, the SH7216 has already become one of the most successful for Renesas, targeting connectivity and inverter markets. It features
communication interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN and USB along with 72 different connectivity options, giving developers maximum flexibility for their device, package, performance needs. Its inverter capabilities feature two dedicated timer units, each capable of automatic deadtime insertion, deadtime optimization and automatic synchronization with the analog-to-digital converter making it suitable for solar, motor control or other inverter applications.

The SH7216, capable of 480DMIPS and 400MFLOPS performance, enables extremely fast interrupt response (as low as 30 ns), and contains up to 1 MB of the industry’s fastest embedded flash, MONOS flash—performance only available from Renesas.

Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS offers a robust library of application-callable operating system services that simplify and optimize the performance of an embedded system. ThreadX is designed for microcontroller-based applications and features a small memory footprint of under 6KB so it can reside in even the most limited on-chip MCU memory. ThreadX provides preemptive, real-time, priority-based scheduling for optimum responsiveness and high performance and includes services such as thread scheduling, message passing, resource allocation, synchronization, and interrupt management.

User applications are easily managed and remain easily portable to higher- or lower-performance SH2-A core-based processors. ThreadX is complemented by FileX®, a full embedded file system, NetX™, a rich but small-footprint IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, USBX™

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