Date: 09/10/2008

ThreadX RTOS to have MCAPI Communications API

Express Logic and PolyCore Software have announced the first commercial RTOS integration of the Multicore Association's recently released Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) specification.

In a joint development effort between Express Logic and PolyCore Software, Poly-Messenger/MCAPI now provides MCAPI support for applications running Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS.
Poly-Messenger/MCAPI provides efficient standardized communication between application threads running on ThreadX, across multiple instantiations of ThreadX, and/or multiple OS instantiations across multiple cores.
MCAPI provides an industry standard, implementation agnostic API for multicore systems communication. PolyCore Software's Poly-Messenger®/MCAPI is a communications framework simplifying multicore communication.

Poly-Messenger/MCAPI and Poly-GeneratorTM enable application developers to design, program, and manage communications in multicore systems. Poly-Messenger/MCAPI supports different logical and physical onchip network structures that allows migration of applications

Poly-Messenger/MCAPI provides a platform for reuse of legacy code. Poly-Messenger/MCAPI offers a unified standard interface, providing an abstraction layer to the underlying interconnections.

The embedded-computing is now more geared up for multi-core processing to increase and optimize the processor performance to highest level. Joint efforts by embedded tools vendors to add multi-core programming features will help the industry in bringing products faster to the market. There is an association called, The Multicore Association (http://www.multicore-association.org) to promote multi-core systmes. The Association was founded in 2006 with the objective of enabling standardized commercial products to be made available for developer use.