Date: 18/10/2008

Enea's OSE RTOS to support for AMCC's PowerPC architecture

OSE real-time operating system from Enea now supports AMCC's family of PowerPC-based Power Architecture processors, including the 405EXr, 440GRx and 440GX. Enea also announced that AMCC will deliver Enea's open source LINX interprocess communications services with its new 460GT-based Arches AdvancedMC reference design kit.
Terry Pearson, vice president of marketing at Enea said, "OSE and LINX are optimized for building scalable, distributed, multiprocessor systems that take full advantage of the Power Architecture's dual cores and high throughput. Now, AMCC customers can access this technology out of the box, pre-configured for the Arches AdvancedMC platform."

The Arches reference design kit, utilizing a standard single-width, mid-size AMC card, supports Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet, and PCI Express interconnects. Equipped with a pair of 1-GHz AMCC PowerPC 460GT processors, Arches features two front panel 10/100/1G Ethernet ports, four 10/100/1G Ethernet ports (AMC connector), an x1/x4 Serial RapidIO port (AMC connector), and an x1/x4 Serial RapidIO/PCI-Express port (AMC connector). Arches is bundled with a full complement of development tools, open-source middleware for inter-process communication (Enea LINX), and a leading RapidIO network management and diagnostic tool.