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VxWorks/Tornado
Tornado: A highly scaleable and deterministic run-time system, Tornado offers distributed backplane and
networking support and has a large base of third-party support. Tornado includes a comprehensive suite
of core and optional cross-development tools and utilities, and a full range of communications options
for the target connection to the host. Support for Wind River’s next generation product VxWorks 6 with
the WorkBench IDE is available. This adds powerful new features with a focus on open standards,
performance, reliability and interoperability, and includes MMU-based memory protection and enhanced
error management.
VxWorks: Deployed in over 30 million devices, VxWorks forms the foundation for Wind River
platforms, which also include the Tornado Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The run-time
component of the Tornado embedded development platform, VxWorks is the most widely adopted real-
time operating system (RTOS) in the embedded industry. With a focus on performance, scalability, and
footprint, VxWorks enables device software to run faster, better, and more reliably.
Board support packages (BSPs) containing Wind River defined support, and enhanced support packages
(ESPs) providing extra Radstone defined support, are both available direct from Radstone.
LynxOS
This fully deterministic real-time UNIX offers complete memory management support, including MMU-
based protected address-spaces for tasks. With comprehensive POSIX API conformance 1003.1, .1b and
.1c, LynxOS also exhibits true linear scalability, and a Linux application binary interface (ABI)
personality. Linux binaries run unchanged on LynxOS v4.0.
Radstone provides direct support for BSPs containing LynuxWorks defined support, and ESPs providing
extra Radstone defined support.
Linux has, in recent years, formed an increasingly attractive alternative to proprietary operating systems
for underpinning applications on embedded systems. A range of Linux distributions, targeted at cut-down
embedded operation up to large-scale server operation, has increased choice still further, with free and
added-value commercial distributions sharing the market and catering for different program needs.
An Open Source package for the PowerPact6 CP1A, released under the terms of the General Public
License (GPL) and supporting the Linux 2.6.x kernel, can be downloaded from the Radstone website.
Radstone intends to provide confidence of operation with a number of free and commercial distributions,
including Yellow Dog, Fedora Core (PowerPC version) and BlueCat from LynuxWorks.
Integrity
This maximum reliability, real-time operating system is royalty-free. The Integrity RTOS uses hardware
memory protection to isolate and protect itself, and user tasks, from incorrect operation caused by
accidental errors or malicious tampering.
Support for Radstone boards including the CP1A is available direct from Green Hills Software Inc.,
Radstone’s technology partner.
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