MapuSoft Technologies http://mapusoft.com Porting Made Easy Wed, 02 May 2012 19:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en MapuSoft Announces its New Collaboration with Freescale MQX Software Solutions http://mapusoft.com/mapusoft-announces-new-partnership-with-freescale/976/ http://mapusoft.com/mapusoft-announces-new-partnership-with-freescale/976/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:43:54 +0000 marianne http://mapusoft.com/mapusoft-announces-new-partnership-with-freescale/976/ Mobile, AL, Feb. 2nd, 2011 – MapuSoft is pleased to announce its new collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor’s (NYSE: FSL) MQX software solutions. This alliance brings an optimized version of the OS Changer Porting Kit for MQX RTOS on Freescale platforms. OS Changer is a C/C++ source-level virtualization technology that allows you to easily re-use your software developed for one OS on MQX RTOS, while providing real-time performance. It decreases the manual porting effort which helps to save money and shorten time to market. OS Changer provides the freedom to move to the Freescale platform of your choice, regardless of your current target OS.

OS Changer Porting Kits are available for moving from VxWorks, pSOS, Linux/POSIX, Windows, Nucleus and micro-ITRON to MQX RTOS on a number of Freescale platforms including including KinetisARM® Cortex™-M4, i.MX, ColdFire and Power Architecture®.

“Time to market, cutting development cost and optimizing application code is critical for customers in today’s environment. Our close collaboration with Freescale and rapid support for Freescale’s new and existing product line, gives customers high performance and future-proof solutions.” said Mr. Raman Narayanan, Director of Marketing and Sales for Mapusoft Technologies.

“By partnering with Mapusoft, customers who have both legacy code and new development can easily transition to a better hardware platform offered by Freescale. The solutions Mapusoft offers in the transition from applications written for different operating systems to Freescale platforms gives customers a lot of flexibility and also eases the transitioning process.” said John Weil, Global Product and Enablement Manager for Freescale.

About MapuSoft Technologies, Inc.
MapuSoft Technologies is the leading provider of embedded software solutions and services designed to protect software investment by increasing the customers’ level of software re-use in product development. Free evaluations can be downloaded at http://www.mapusoft.com/downloads. For more information on MapuSoft Technologies or any of our products, please contact us at 251.665.0280, info@mapusoft.com or visit MapuSoft’s website at www.mapusoft.com

About Freescale MQX RTOS
Available on Freescale processors for more than 15 years, Freescale MQX Software Solutions offer a straightforward API with a modular architecture, making it simple to fine tune custom applications and scalable to fit most requirements. The combination of our market-proven Freescale MQX Software Solutions and silicon portfolio provides a streamlined and powerful platform by creating a comprehensive source for hardware, software, tools and services needs. Download Freescale MQX software solutions here: http://www.freescale.com/mqx

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OS Changer, OS Abstractor, OS PAL, Ada-PAL Compiler, Ada-C/C++ Changer and MapuSoft are registered trademarks of MapuSoft Technologies, Inc.

Freescale, the Freescale logo and ColdFire are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Kinetis, is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. ARM is the registered trademark of ARM Limited. CORTEX is the trademark of ARM Limited. The Power Architecture and Power.org word marks and the Power and Power.org logos and related marks are trademarks and service marks licensed by Power.org. © 2011 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

]]> http://mapusoft.com/mapusoft-announces-new-partnership-with-freescale/976/feed/ Optimizing Linux for Better Real-time Performance http://mapusoft.com/optimizing-linux-for-better-real-time-performance/974/ http://mapusoft.com/optimizing-linux-for-better-real-time-performance/974/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:00:20 +0000 marianne http://mapusoft.com/optimizing-linux-for-better-real-time-performance/974/ Many embedded developers use Linux in their projects. In fact, our last article highlighted the Advantages of Moving to Linux

However, some developers are feeling additional pressure to get a performance increase from their embedded Linux operating system. To achieve this additional performance means that they will need to dig into the Linux operating system code, which could be disastrous.

MapuSoft’s Linux OK (Linux Optimization Kit) provided by the OS Abstractor framework provides several options for Linux users to achieve higher performance. In other words, MapuSoft’s OS Abstractor can enhance Linux without making major changes to the kernel.

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]]> http://mapusoft.com/optimizing-linux-for-better-real-time-performance/974/feed/ The Advantages of Moving to Linux http://mapusoft.com/the-advantages-of-moving-to-linux/973/ http://mapusoft.com/the-advantages-of-moving-to-linux/973/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:58:50 +0000 marianne http://mapusoft.com/the-advantages-of-moving-to-linux/973/ Linux has the simple and elegant design of the UNIX OSs, which guarantees a very stable, robust and secure system. Linux is also an Open Source project, meaning that the source code of the operating system is freely available to everybody and can be customized to user’s needs. Linux can be customized for real-time applications and is called embedded Linux in this case. The Open Source Community helps the growth of Linux by adding new features to the kernel, porting Linux to new architectures, providing easy tools for application development and a host of free device drivers/BSP support.

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]]> http://mapusoft.com/stabilizing-industrial-applications-through-os-abstraction/972/feed/ Programming for Embedded Systems http://mapusoft.com/programming-for-embedded-systems/971/ http://mapusoft.com/programming-for-embedded-systems/971/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:55:00 +0000 marianne http://mapusoft.com/programming-for-embedded-systems/971/ In this two part article we will look at the differences between porting and abstracting code with the purpose of helping you understand why and when to use each method. In the case where you need your code to execute on multiple embedded operating systems (platforms), it is almost guaranteed that you will need to adjust your code for each platform. Each platform has its own system call interface (or software development kit) that is accessed through code using differing protocols, sometimes even for the same functionality. In other cases, your target platform may not include certain functionality or may include additional functionality that could be used to enhance your platform.

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]]> http://mapusoft.com/programming-for-embedded-systems/971/feed/ How to Choose a RTOS for Your Embedded System http://mapusoft.com/how-to-choose-a-rtos-for-your-embedded-system/970/ http://mapusoft.com/how-to-choose-a-rtos-for-your-embedded-system/970/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:53:00 +0000 marianne http://mapusoft.com/how-to-choose-a-rtos-for-your-embedded-system/970/ After a brief introduction regarding the technologies involved, this post will provide you with the resources needed to make an informed decision about which real-time operating system (RTOS) will best fit the needs of your embedded system.

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]]> http://mapusoft.com/video-testing-embedded-applications-using-os-virtualization/965/feed/ Video: Developing OS Agnostic Embedded Applications http://mapusoft.com/video-developing-os-agnostic-embedded-applications/964/ http://mapusoft.com/video-developing-os-agnostic-embedded-applications/964/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:12:51 +0000 marianne http://mapusoft.com/video-developing-os-agnostic-embedded-applications/964/ Click here to view the video: Developing OS Agnostic Embedded Applications

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