Enhanced OS-9 for PowerPC

<BODY>  > <DIV align="left"> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3"> <tr> <TD valign="top" width="200"> <P><IMG src="../images/elsoft.gif" width="180" height="38"></P> <p> <a href="../fr0000.html">Home</a><br> <a href="../fr1000.html">Services</a><br> <a href="../fr2000.html">Products</a><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><a href="../fr2100.html">Microware OS-9</a><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><a href="../fr2110.html">OS-9 Technology</a><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><a href="../fr2120.html">Enhanced OS-9 for 68k</a><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><strong><a href="../fr2130.html">OS-9 for PowerPC</a></strong><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><a href="../fr2140.html">OS-9 for x86</a><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><a href="../fr2150.html">OS-9 for StrongARM</a><br> <IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><IMG src="../images/abst.gif" WIDTH="8" HEIGHT="1"><a href="../fr2160.html">OS-9 for SuperH</a><br> </p> <form action="http://www.elsoft.ch/cgi-bin/htsearch" target=Right> <CENTER><b>Quick Search:</b><br> <font size="-1"> <input type=text name=words size=15> <input type=hidden name=method value=and> <input type=hidden name=config value=elsoft_htdig> </font> </CENTER> </form> </TD> <TD valign="top"> <h1>Enhanced OS-9 for PowerPC v1.3</h1> <p><img src="../images/microware.gif" alt="[Microware Logo]" WIDTH="310" HEIGHT="188"></p> <h2>Product Benefits </h2> <h3>High Performance </h3> <p>OS-9 driver-based communications framework and multimedia I/O systems optimized for maximum performance and minimum CPU utilization.</p> <h3>High Reliability </h3> <p>Secure process-model architecture of OS-9 prevents accidental or malicious system corruption for a highly reliable system.</p> <h3>High Availability </h3> <p>Unique OS-9 module addition, removal or replacement facility enables dynamic reconfiguration and field upgrades while the system is on-line and in use to satisfy high availability requirements.</p> <h3>Comprehensive I/O </h3> <p>OS-9 for PowerPC provides high quality driver support for the highly integrated PowerPC family.</p> <h3>One-Stop Solution </h3> <p>Facilitates timely delivery of your product by providing complete development environment, robust run-time environment, and #1 rated customer support.</p> <h2>Product Overview </h2> <p>Enhanced OS-9 for Embedded Systems (PowerPC) is a complete solution for PowerPC real-time applications.Microware provides the operating system, drivers, development environment, and middleware making application development easier and reducing time to market. Products on the CD-ROM include: </p> <h3>OS-9 Evaluation Package</h3> <p>Try Enhanced OS-9 for PowerPC on the supported board level solutions free for sixty days!</p> <h3>OS-9 for Embedded Systems (PowerPC)</h3> <p>OS-9 for PowerPC is a licensed product that includes development environment, run-time binary software, and driver sources for custom PowerPC hardware platform development.</p> <h3>OS-9 Board Level Solution (MBX821/860)</h3> <p>The MBX BLS provides a complete OS-9 run-time and development environment for immediate application development targeting the Motorola Computer Group MBX 821 and 860 platforms.</p> <h3>OS-9 Board Level Solution (MCP750)</h3> <p>The MCP750 BLS provides a complete OS-9 run-time and development environment for immediate application development on the Motorola Computer Group MCP750 system slot compact PCI (cPCI) board.</p> <h3>OS-9 Board Level Solution (MVME2603/2604)</h3> <p>The MVME2603/2604 BLS provides a complete OS-9 run-time and development environment for immediate application development on the Motorola Computer Group MVME2603 and MVME2604 platforms.</p> <h3>OS-9 Board Level Solution (MVME2700)</h3> <p>The MVME2700 BLS provides a complete OS-9 run-time and development environment for immediate application development on the Motorola Computer Group MVME2700 platform.</p> <h3>OS-9 Board Level Solution (8xxFADS)</h3> <p>The 8xxFADS BLS provides a complete OS-9 run-time and development environment for immediate PowerPC application development targeting the Motorola 8xxFADS reference platform.</p> <h3>PersonalJava for OS-9 (PowerPC)</h3> <p>PersonalJava for OS-9 is an optimized Sun-licensed PersonalJava environment for OS-9, enabling a world of Java programs and programmers to immediately target your Java enabled device.</p> <h3>HawkEye</h3> <p>The HawkEye system profiler monitors performance and relationships between processes and the OS-9 system. HawkEye is a "software oscilloscope" that provides timing and relationship information for fast and easy system performance tuning and debugging.</p> <h3>ATM Base Pak for OS-9</h3> <p>The ATM Base Pak provides the ATM driver for the PPC860SR and an IP over ATM module conforming to RFCs 1483 and 1577. The modules are provided in source and binary form. The ATM Base Pak supports permanent virtual circuit (PVC) ATM operation.</p> <h3>Soft-ATM for OS-9</h3> <p>Soft-ATM for OS-9 is a full-source and binary package jointly ported by Harris & Jeffries (www.hjinc.com) and Microware to provide a tightly integrated ATM signaling stack for OS-9. Used in conjunction with the ATM Base Pak, OS-9 supports permanent and switched circuit (PVC and SVC) ATM operation as well as user or network side ATM connectivity.</p> <h3>EMANATE SNMP for OS-9</h3> <p>EMANATE for OS-9 provides a master agent binary, MIB-II subagent binary and a MIB compiler for custom agent development for OS-9. Jointly integrated by SNMP Research and Microware, the porting and integration effort has already been done for you.</p> <h3>XiSys GUI Builder for OS-9</h3> <p>XiSys provides a complete graphical desktop and graphical user interface (GUI) builder for OS-9. XiSys uses the MAUI graphics environment as a foundation to provide an OS-9 desktop complete with network neighborhood functionality and utilities along with higher level graphics objects for fast and easy GUI generation for your embedded system.</p> <p>Enhanced OS-9 for PowerPC accelerates product maturity by incorporating an integrated communications framework called SoftStax that provides a high-performance communications environment for the OS-9 real-time operating system with the ability to add or replace protocol stacks without disturbing the application. OS-9 provides on-line service addition or replacement to increase availability and prevents accidental or malicious system software corruption for a highly stable environment. An application programming interface (API) and productivity enhancing development tools are also provided, enabling timely creation of understandable, network independent applications.</p> <h2>OS-9 Diagram</h2> <p><img SRC="../images/ds-powerpc-1.gif" ALT="OS-9 for PowerPC" BORDER="0" ID="Picture32" WIDTH="598" HEIGHT="265"></p> <h2>Product Features </h2> <h3>OS-9 High Reliability, High Availability RTOS</h3> <p>The OS-9 RTOS is proven and fielded in millions of mission-critical devices around the world. The secure process-model architecture is fully reentrant, position independent and protects against accidental or malicious system corruption. Module CRCs validate executable module integrity and the module header enables dynamic feature addition, removal, or replacement while the device is on-line and in use for high product availability.</p> <h3>SoftStax Communications Framework</h3> <p>Microware's SoftStax driver-based networking solution utilizes the OS-9 I/O framework to provide a high-performance communications subsystem that supports a wide variety of standard and custom networking protocols.Applications written to SoftStax can run over any supported protocol and are network independent.</p> <h3>MAUI Embedded Multimedia Support</h3> <p>Microware's MAUI multimedia environment provides a rich set of text, drawing and animation services with windowing, clipping, and inking service to support the graphical interface. The small & fast graphics subsystem takes advantage of the real-time design features of OS-9.</p> <h3>Power Management</h3> <p>The OS-9 kernel implements a sleep state; a necessary kernel feature for implementing power management. A customizable power policy module provides easy specification of the power policy for your device. The power policy enforcement module enforces the defined power policy for the entire system. The OS-9 I/O is power and designed to implement power down or low power operation when notified by the power manager.</p> <h3>Serial/Parallel I/O</h3> <p>The Sequential Character File Manager (SCF) I/O subsystem handles basic character oriented I/O devices, such as serial ports, parallel ports and modems. It also functions as the input path for a variety of MAUI devices, such as keypads, mice and touchscreens.</p> <h3>Storage I/O</h3> <p>The Random Block File Manager (RBF) I/O subsystem implements a hierarchical, UNIX-like file system for data storage. Enhanced OS-9 for StrongARM also includes a RAM disk device driver for devices that require temporary storage during operation and a PC file system for PC AT compatibility.</p> <h3>PCMCIA I/O</h3> <p>Enhanced OS-9 for StrongARM features PCMCIA to support a variety of popular PCMCIA devices including modems, ATA flash & hard disks, 16550 compatible serial devices, ethernet and more.</p> <h3>Hawk Integrated Development Environment (IDE)</h3> <p>Microware's Hawk IDE is designed to increase the efficiency of OS-9 development. Hawk's highly integrated tool set simplifies and automates the tasks of creating, debugging, analyzing and managing complex real-time software development projects. The development environment includes the Codewright code editor, compiler, linker, object loader, application and system level debugger, application profiler, and on-line documentation.</p> <h3>OS-9 Configuration Wizard</h3> <p>The OS-9 configuration wizard provides a graphical user interface which simplifies the sometimes complex task of configuring and building system images.Simply point and click for networking, TCP/IP configuration, graphics, or debugging and the wizard automatically creates a software image for your target..</p> <h3>PersonalJava for Embedded Systems</h3> <p>PersonalJava for OS-9 is engineered to match the speed, stability and size requirements of embedded devices.Java reduces the overall development time because developers are able to take advantage of the object-oriented features of Java, use the simulation capability of host system like Windows 95, and leverage the compatibility of Java for OS-9 and other desktop environments.</p> <h2>Product Contents </h2> <p>Enhanced OS-9 for PowerPC contains the following software integrated on CD-ROM: <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>OS-9 RTOS</li> <li>MAUI multimedia I/O system</li> <li>SoftStax communications framework</li> <li>BSD v4.4 TCP/UDP/IP LAN networking</li> <li>Sample application source code</li> <li>Finished ported boot image for reference platform(s)</li> <li>Device driver source (in licensed package only)</li> <li>OS-9 configuration wizard</li> <li>Microware Hawk IDE including:</li> <ul TYPE="CIRCLE"> <li>Premia®'s Codewright code editor</li> <li>Source code browser</li> <li>Project manager</li> <li>Ultra C/C++ Compiler</li> <li>Hawk system and user state debugger</li> <li>Resident toolset</li> <li>On-line help</li> </ul> </ul> <h2>System Requirements </h2> <h3>Host Development System</h3> <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT</li> <li>Pentium processor</li> <li>32 MB RAM</li> <li>250-350 MB free disk space</li> <li>CD-ROM drive</li> </ul> <h3>Target System</h3> <ul> <table BORDER="1" WIDTH="495" ID="Table15"> <tr> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><p align="center">Base OS-9 Configuration (Baseline) </td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><p align="center">Baseline OS-9 with TCP/IP connectivity (Networked) </td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><p align="center">Networked OS-9 with multimedia (Multimedia) </td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><p align="center">Multimedia OS-9 with PersonalJava (pJava environment) </td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="52">RAM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="55">ROM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="59">RAM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="53">ROM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="59">RAM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="57">ROM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="55">RAM</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="62">ROM</td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="52">128K</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="55">128K</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="59">256K</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="53">350K</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="59">512K</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="57">512K</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="55">4M</td> <td ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="62">4M</td> </tr> </table> </ul> <h2>Add-ons </h2> <p>Add-on products password protected on the CD include: <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>PersonalJava for OS-9</li> <li>ATM Base Pak</li> <li>Soft-ATM for OS-9</li> <li>EMANATE SNMP for OS-9</li> <li>HawkEye System profiler for OS-9</li> </ul> <p>Other add-on products include: <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>Allegro ROMPager web server, http server, and email client</li> <li>IrDA stack for OS-9</li> <li>Harris & Jeffries Frame Relay for OS-9</li> <li>Trillium stacks for OS-9</li> </ul> <p>Call your local sales representative for pricing and availability.</p> <h2>Support </h2> <p>Ethernet Controllers <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>3COM EtherLink III PC CARD</li> <li>DEC21040</li> <li>DEC21140</li> </ul> <p>LCD and VGA Support <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>PPC821 LCD controller driver</li> <li>Generic SVGA driver</li> </ul> <p>User Input Device Support <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>SCC driver support for UART, HDLC, IrDA</li> <li>Touch screen</li> <li>AMD, Siemens 82525 dual HDLC controller</li> </ul> <p>Physical Disk Media <ul TYPE="DISC"> <li>IDE Standard</li> <li>PCMCIA IDE</li> <li>PC AT Style Floppy</li> </ul> <h2>Documentation </h2> <p>Microware Enhanced OS-9 for PowerPC includes Microware's complete documentation set in PDF and on-line help formats on the CD-ROM. For additional user convenience, help files can be accessed directly from the development tool.</p> <h2>Professional Services</h2> <p>Elsoft's and Microware's professional services teams work individually with clients to customize the right set of services for each client's challenges.Our goal is to make each customer successful through premier advisory services and software engineering solutions.This approach delivers complete solutions that are on time and on budget.</p> <h2>Training & Support</h2> <p>Our #1 rated application support engineers can quickly and effectively diagnose problems and answer customer questions.Training seminars can accelerate your development cycle by giving you hands-on experience with Ariel, guided by our experienced training engineers.</p> <hr> <h3>Contact Information</h3> <table border="1"> <tr> <td>Telephone</td> <td><strong>+41 (0)56 483 34 64</strong><img src="../images/smallnew.gif" alt="smallnew.gif (905 bytes)" WIDTH="25" HEIGHT="14"></td> <td rowspan="4"><img src="../images/elsoft-big.gif" alt="[Esloft AG logo]" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="64"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>FAX</td> <td>+41 (0)56 493 30 20</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Address</td> <td>Taefernstrasse 20, CH-5405 Daettwil</td> </tr> <tr> <td>E-Mail</td> <td><a href="mailto:info@elsoft.ch">info@elsoft.ch</a></td> </tr> </table> <p>Information contained in this document is subject to change without notice.<br> Other products and companies referred to herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or mark holders.<br> Copyright © 1997-2001 Elsoft AG, Switzerland</p> <p>Last modification: 05 April, 2000 /sp</p> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </DIV> </BODY>