Date: 26/10/2010

Express Logic provides ThreadX support to Energy Micro's 32-bit ARM Cortex MCUs

Express Logic, Inc.has announced ThreadX RTOS support of Energy Micro's Cortex-M3-based EFM32 microcontroller (MCU) family. The combination of ThreadX RTOS and EFM32 Gecko MCUs are suggested for energy-sensitive real-time control applications including energy, water, and gas metering, building automation, alarm and security, and portable medical/fitness equipment. This combination is critical for bringing new safe and energy-friendly medical equipment and industrial systems to life, claims Express Logic.

"The ThreadX RTOS offers the high-speed and small memory footprint crucial to the energy-sensitive markets the EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers target," commented Oyvind Janbu, Energy Micro's CTO. "Designing reliable and long-lasting battery-operated applications requires a framework that reduces overhead and response time. ThreadX and EFM32 devices provide an unmatched solution."

Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS can be packed into small memory footprint of under 6KB so it can reside in on-chip MCU memory. ThreadX provides preemptive, real-time, priority-based scheduling for optimum responsiveness and high performance and includes services such as thread scheduling, message passing, resource allocation, synchronization, and interrupt management.

ThreadX is complemented by FileX, a full embedded file system, NetX, a rich but small-footprint IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, USBX, a full USB Host/Device/OTG stack, and PEGX, a graphics development toolkit. TraceX, Express Logic's graphical real-time event analysis development tool, also is available for the EFM32 Gecko. ThreadX is provided with full source code and is fully integrated into the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE.

A free evaluation version of ThreadX and a demonstration program in source code form are available for the EFM32 Gecko from Express Logic's web site, www.rtos.com.

"We are pleased to provide ThreadX RTOS support for Energy Micro's EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers," commented William E. Lamie, CEO of Express Logic. "These power-saving MCUs enable ThreadX to deliver sub-microsecond context-switch performance for the most demanding real-time applications."Express Logic, Inc.has announced ThreadX RTOS support of Energy Micro's Cortex-M3-based EFM32 microcontroller (MCU) family. The combination of ThreadX RTOS and EFM32 Gecko MCUs are suggested for energy-sensitive real-time control applications including energy, water, and gas metering, building automation, alarm and security, and portable medical/fitness equipment. This combination is critical for bringing new safe and energy-friendly medical equipment and industrial systems to life, claims Express Logic.

"The ThreadX RTOS offers the high-speed and small memory footprint crucial to the energy-sensitive markets the EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers target," commented Oyvind Janbu, Energy Micro's CTO. "Designing reliable and long-lasting battery-operated applications requires a framework that reduces overhead and response time. ThreadX and EFM32 devices provide an unmatched solution."

Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS can be packed into small memory footprint of under 6KB so it can reside in on-chip MCU memory. ThreadX provides preemptive, real-time, priority-based scheduling for optimum responsiveness and high performance and includes services such as thread scheduling, message passing, resource allocation, synchronization, and interrupt management.

ThreadX is complemented by FileX, a full embedded file system, NetX, a rich but small-footprint IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, USBX, a full USB Host/Device/OTG stack, and PEGX, a graphics development toolkit. TraceX, Express Logic's graphical real-time event analysis development tool, also is available for the EFM32 Gecko. ThreadX is provided with full source code and is fully integrated into the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE.

A free evaluation version of ThreadX and a demonstration program in source code form are available for the EFM32 Gecko from Express Logic's web site, www.rtos.com.

"We are pleased to provide ThreadX RTOS support for Energy Micro's EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers," commented William E. Lamie, CEO of Express Logic. "These power-saving MCUs enable ThreadX to deliver sub-microsecond context-switch performance for the most demanding real-time applications."