Aonix Supports Nucleus OS with PERC Ultra Development and Execution Technologies

Aonix announced that our flagship virtual machine technology and one of the first implementations of the Java® 5 standard for embedded systems, is available to Nucleus® OS users.  PERC Ultra 5.0 provides deterministic garbage collection technology, support for the rich library set specified in the Java Version 5 standard, and integration support for the Nucleus OS execution environment, giving real-time developers a powerful Java development and execution platform.

 “Applications built around Nucleus OS are quite diverse and include a wide range of real-time requirements,” noted Roger Butterfield, Strategic Alliance Manager, Mentor Graphics. “Java technology addresses many of the development and time-to-market issues developers of these complex systems have. And now, with the Aonix PERC VM solution, developers also have the performance edge and real-time predictability that they need.”

“We are delighted to add support for the Mentor Graphics products to our growing list of real-time solutions,” stated Gary Cato, Aonix Manager of Strategic Alliances. “Mentor Graphics Nucleus is among the strongest real-time product offerings on the markets that Aonix traditionally serves, and we’re very pleased to announce availability of PERC Ultra and Pico products for it.”

First introduced nine years ago, PERC is the most widely used real-time virtual machine available for Java developers, with fielded installations in telecommunications, telematics, industrial control, data acquisition, military, aerospace, and office automation applications. PERC supports a variety of target processors including PowerPC, XScale, ARM, and Intel x86 architectures. PERC Ultra is the industry-leading real-time virtual machine, featuring the predictable performance critically needed for complex embedded applications requiring J2SE™ support.

Nucleus Plus provides an extensive set of real-time services including task control, task communications, task synchronization, memory management and programmable timers. Nucleus is renowned for its broad range of facilities for building efficient embedded systems. Nucleus customers with regulatory requirements to meet, such as those in the medical, industrial and avionics and other transportation industries, can especially benefit from the reduced complexity and increased performance and quality in the latest release of Nucleus Plus.

The initial integration of PERC Ultra runs on Windows and targets the i.MX21 ARM board from Freescale Semiconductor running Nucleus OS, but will ultimately support any ARM9 or later processor. PERC Ultra is available for Linux, Windows, and Solaris hosts and supports a wide variety of processor architectures and real-time operating systems.

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Aonix’s Latest ObjectAda Supports New ETS RTOS Version

Aonix has ported ObjectAda V8.2  to the latest Ardence ETS real-time operating system (RTOS). This advanced version of ETS, Version 13, offers many new features, including kernel-level memory protection, a critical feature for Aonix’s customers who need to bring real-time, secure memory applications into the Windows environment.  

Ardence’s Phar Lap ETS, a hard real-time RTOS designed for applications targeting execution on x86-based platforms, now boasts improved connectivity support. With this edition, ETS delivers TCP/IP multicast support and complete access to ETS TCP/IP APIs enabling development of network drivers and for support of higher layer protocols. Its 256 priority levels enable developers to meet the needs of real-time applications that are highly complex, guaranteeing that critical thread context switches and yields to threads of higher priority occur in the 500 nanosecond to less than 2 microsecond range. The ETS kernel-level memory protection safely isolates critical parts of the application from all other parts, ensuring that mission-critical components cannot be compromised.  

 “Aonix has been an ETS reseller for more than ten years with a great track record of success in supporting complex real-time systems,” stated Stephen M. Woodard, VP, Product Line Executive, Embedded/OEM Division at Ardence, a Citrix company. “We’re delighted they continue to deliver the value offered in our real-time solutions, and we look forward to jointly servicing the Ada community with them.”

“The improved interrupt handling support and superior performance of ETS 13 is critical to our customers,” said Gary Cato, Director of Strategic Alliances at Aonix. “Our latest ObjectAda technology complements the improvements made with ETS, giving our customers the solution needed to create hard real-time applications for Intel-target applications.”

The Aonix ObjectAda for Windows brings the improvements of ObjectAda 8.2 to the Windows development platform. In integrating current Windows improvements with the Aonix Ada 95 compiler, Aonix has delivered enhancements to the object code and symbolic debugging information generation and provided full compatibility with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 development tools. Recognizing the growing number of large-scale Ada projects, ObjectAda 8.2 for Windows targeting x86 processors offers dramatic performance improvements for developers linking executable files or initiating debugging sessions for large programs.

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ADT Goes Open Source as Aonix Leads Ada Eclipse Development Tools Project Initiative  

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