Enea Supports New Freescale Multicore DSP Family
Comprehensive Solution including Enea OSEck , Enea LINX and DSPNet Tuned for New Freescale MSC825x DSP Family
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 28 April, 2010 - Enea, today announced the availability of its Enea OSE®ck real-time operating system (RTOS) for Freescale's MSC825x multicore digital signal processor family. The Enea OSEck RTOS (www.enea.com/oseck), optimized for signal processing applications, takes full advantage of the MSC825x multicore architecture and high-speed packet processing capabilities. OSEck also provides high-performance message-based Enea® LINX interprocess communications (IPC) services, which greatly simplify the design of complex applications spanning multiple cores and processors in the telecom infrastructure, medical, military and test and measurement markets.
"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"
OSEck (OSE Compact Kernel) is a DSP-optimized version of the full-featured OSE RTOS. Occupying less than 10 kbytes of memory (in a minimal configuration), OSEck 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.
"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."
OSEck's message-based LINX IPC services provide the framework for establishing transparent communications between application processes running on multiple MSC825x cores. Utilizing high-performance, zero-copy shared memory data transfers, LINX greatly simplifies distributed design, enabling applications running on multiple cores to interact as if they were running on a single core. This transparency also enhances scalability, enabling designers to add new nodes with minimal impact on existing application code.
Enea's DSPNet, a compact, high-performance secure IPv4v6 stack optimized for OSEck and DSP applications help system developers lower network processing costs while taking full advantage of the DSP's real-time processing capabilities.
For more information
Nordic:
Catharina Paulcén, VP Corporate Communications
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email: catharina.paulcen@enea.com
North America
Chris Lanfear, Director of Global Marcom
Phone: 1 617 244 9433 or email: chris.lanfear@enea.com
Asia Pacific:
Dan Andersson, Vice President of Software Sales Asia
Phone: 86 1360 1864 840 or email: dan.andersson@enea.com
Europe:
Benedicte Bissey, Marketing Communications Manager, EMEA
Phone: 33 1 76 91 58 24 or email: benedicte.bissey@enea.com
About Enea
Enea is a global software and services company focused on solutions for communication-driven products. With 40 years of experience Enea is a world leader in the development of software platforms with extreme demands on high-availability and performance. Enea's expertise in real-time operating systems and high availability middleware shortens development cycles, brings down product costs and increases system reliability. Enea's vertical solutions cover telecom handsets and infrastructure, medtech, automotive and mil/aero. Enea has offices in Europe, North America and Asia. Enea is listed on Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm AB. For more information please visit enea.com or contact us at info@enea.com.
Enea®, Enea OSE®, Netbricks®, Polyhedra® and Zealcore® are registered trademarks of Enea AB and its subsidiaries. Enea OSE®ck, Enea OSE® Epsilon, Enea® Element, Enea® Optima, Enea® Optima Log Analyzer, Enea® Black Box Recorder, Enea® LINX, Enea® Accelerator, Polyhedra® Flashlite, Enea® dSPEED Platform, Enea® System Manager, Accelerating Network Convergence(TM), Device Software Optimized(TM) and Embedded for Leaders(TM) are unregistered trademarks of Enea AB or its subsidiaries. Any other company, product or service names mentioned above are the registered or unregistered trademarks of their respective owner. © Enea AB 2010.
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