Santa Clara, California-based Integrated Systems Inc, supplier of software products and services for control systems design and real-time embedded software development, has announced a small-size, modular embedded real-time operating system kernel derived from p-System and called pSOSelect. Motorola Inc embedded developers intend to use the pSOS kernel within the 68300 family of microcontrollers in place of more expensive board-based designs. Integrated Systems has said the pSOS real-time embedded operating system will support Intel Corp’s next generation 80960 RISC microprocessor, code-named the P110 processor. The P110 processor is said to deliver twice the performance of the current 80960 chip and users will be able to upgrade from previous chip versions to the pSOSystem/80960 P110 product combination that according to the company will give them a higher performance and faster chip with networking capabilities needed for embedded telecommunications and networking applications such as mobile computing, hubs, routers and telephone switches. The pSOSystem/80960 P110 product, including versions of the pSOS+, pSOS+ run-time cores and the OpEN, Open Protocol Embedded Networking, environment, will ship within 30 days of Intel’s own customer deliveries of final versions of the 80960 P110 microprocessor. Prices start at $7,650. The pSOSelect software comprises a core module together with pSOS+ objects and a configuration tool simplifies the selection of the operating system services needed for each application. Integrated Systems will offer complete multimedia database capability with its real-time pSOSystem. It will provide users with a database and development capability that is customised for multi-media applications and will store, retrieve, process, integrate and display text, image, speech and video information.
Client-server multimedia applications
The multimedia capability is provided by the integration of MediaWay’s MediaDB database into the pSOSystem environment. The database product is aimed at, among others, corporate training departments, educational institutions, CD-ROM title developers and game producers. It is available for C++, Visual Basic and also has a multimedia class library for PowerBuilder. MediaDB ADK provides tools necessary for developing client-server multimedia applications. The company has also said its pSoSystem operating systems will support Intel’s 80960 RISC microprocessor. At the same time, Integrated Systems and Green Hills Software Inc have decided to team up to produce pSOSystem software for Hitachi Ltd’s SuperH 32-bit RISC processors. The SuperH chip is used in high-volume telecommunications, multimedia and office automation. Integrated Systems will relicense Green Hills Software products later this year and it will be available from Integrated Systems at the end of 1994. The development tools include a C/C++ compiler, assembler/linker, instruction set simulator and source browser enhanced to work with the pSOSystem Family. The pSOSystem embedded operating system and development tools will also run on IBM Corp’s PowerPC Embedded Controller 403GA. The PowerPC-compatible versions of the pSOSystem environment will be available from Integrated Systems in the first quarter of 1995. Meantime, the Open System Interconnection Telecommunications Technology unit of Retix Inc and Integrated Systems have announced Open System Interconnection for OpEN. The system, which is basically an integration of Retix’s implementation of the Open System Interconnection seven-layer protocol stack with Integrated Systems’ pSOS+ real-time embedded operating system, is intended to enable software developers to write one application to access all open system protocols. It is being pitched at developers of such products as telephone switches, multiplexers and multiprotocol controllers, and is said to enable any Streams-compliant protocol to operate with the pSOS+ operating system. The lower-level Open System Interconnection for Open Protocol Embedded Networking, software representing layers one to four, is available
now, and will cost $6,000 per developer’s licence. The upper layer software and Common Management Information Protocol products ships in the next quarter with pricing to be announced. pSOSelect software is available immediately from Integrated Systems for the 683 Broker Architecture microcontroller central processing units and starts at $4,000 for a single development licence.
