Focus on ARM Technology Forum: Micrium and Xilinx win-win cooperation
At the 2015 ARM Technology Forum in the Kenshin FPGA development circle , we found something very exciting. An application of the µC/OS-III system was demonstrated on the Micrium booth. The base board used is the processor board of the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoC architecture. The peripherals are equipped with an LCD display and a keyboard. This is displayed on the display. APP application architecture design.
Figure 1 ZYNQ transplants uC/OS-III
Micrium is a global RTOS leader, and its products are the first choice for engineers in medical, military and aerospace, industrial, consumer electronics and communications, and other embedded design applications. µC/OS is a ROM-based, cuttable, preemptive, real-time multitasking kernel, highly portable, especially suitable for microprocessors and controllers, and is a real-time operation comparable to many commercial operating systems. Currently, µC/OS-II and µC/OS-III systems are widely used, and a certain fee is charged for commercial use.
Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of complete programmable logic solutions. Based on the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC series, it has launched the next-generation Zynq UltraScale MPSoC architecture SoC processor, which integrates multiple cores, including A dual-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 APU, a dual-core 32-bit ARM Cortex-R5 RPU, while using the programmable logic part can also realize multiple Xilinx MicroBlaze soft cores. On these processors, µC/OS-II and µC/OS-III operating systems can be transplanted, and some other components such as µC/TCP-IP, µC/USB and µC/FS are supported.
Of course, µC/OS operating system can also be transplanted on Zynq SoC. The new version of µC/OS package library file released by Micrium contains all versions of µC/OS features and supports Xilinx Zynq SoC and other architecture processors. You can use it for free if one of the following conditions is met:
- Non-commercial applications
- Profitable income of less than $100,000
- Capital investment of less than USD 1 million
I believe that most developers will meet the above conditions, which can be said to be a benefit to the majority of developers, and it is also conducive to promoting the application of Micrium µC/OS and Xilinx Zynq SoC &&MPSoC in more products and fields to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
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