MapuSoft Technologies

OS Porting and Abstraction Lab

With OS Porting and Abstraction Lab (OS PAL) you can easily port, abstract and optimize your code on a host machine and run the application on different target platforms. OS PAL leverages the existing OS Changer and OS Abstractor technologies while adding advanced code optimization capacities on multiple OS environments. OS PAL provides users an easy-to-use graphical user interface that is integrated with the Eclipse® based CDT environment. Target operating systems supported can be found here: http://mapusoft.com/products/offerings/

If you are a developer, click here for more technical information about OS PAL.

If you are a technical manager, click here for information on how OS PAL can streamline your company’s project and greatly reduce costs.

Eclipse-based Code Migration and API Optimization

For Developers

OS PAL Technical Highlights:

OS PAL simulates various OS interfaces such as VxWorks, pSOS, POSIX and Nucleus on host development environments so users can develop embedded code with preferred OS APIs and without the target hardware
VxWorks, POSIX, Nucleus and pSOS API interfaces are available for porting legacy applications on host platforms to multiple target platforms
BASE OS Abstractor APIs are available to provide a standard real-time OS interface architecture for developing new and highly portable applications
POSIX OS Abstractor APIs are available to leverage re-usable open source Linux/POSIX code
OS PAL’s state-of-the-art Eclipse based IDE offers seamless integration into existing development flows
OS PAL reads application source code to determine the services used by your application and produces OS specific interface code optimized for your specific application and for each target OS platform
OS PAL generates project files for your target IDE including

Visual Studio 6
Windriver Workbench
QNX Momentics

OS PAL provides host development and porting

Begin developing your application before the target hardware is available
Simulate your application on a host for easy for easy testing, verification and presentation

OS PAL provides the best possible real-time simulation on a host non real-time environment
OS PAL has no artificial schedulers which would inhibit the performance of your application

OS PAL provides a unified architecture

Use a standard IDE across multiple operating systems
Re-use same code base across multiple platforms to reduce time consuming maintenance
Eliminate manual updates to applications when upgrading to newer versions of OS

OS PAL gives you the ability to support multiple OS

Easily expandable to generate code for your proprietary OS

OS PAL provides an Eclipse IDE

Offers state-of-the-art CDT for productive development
It’s the industry de facto standard
Offers open source plug-ins for economical development

OS PAL enables you to view API performance data

The OS PAL Profiler feature enables API data collection
Collected data provides feedback concerning the utilization of MapuSoft’s APIs in the project
Reports allow for performance impact analysis by detailing API execution time
Offers area, bar, line, pie and scatter charts for data analysis

Tehcnical Papers

OS PAL Datasheet

Using OS PAL

For a list of instructions to use OS PAL please click this link: http://mapusoft.com/ospalinformation/

OS PAL host development features include:

Creation of C and C++ OS PAL projects
Running and debugging embedded applications on a host computer
Importing embedded applications to a host computer for further development or porting to a new platform
Automatic configuration of any OS Changer & OS Abstractor APIs needed by the application
Custom configuration of OS resources needed by the application
Custom configuration of OS Abstractor Resources
Custom configuration of OS Abstractor for single or multi-application development (Process Feature support)

OS PAL uses OS Abstractor & OS Changer technology to produce optimized target code. OS PAL target features include:

Generation of project files for your IDE
Generated target code is optimized to contain only the APIs used by the application
Allows for further optimization by in-lining user selected API’s
Target selection and configuration tabs to optimize the target code specific for your application

Target OS selection
Task configuration including a task pooling feature
Process configuration including a process feature
Memory configuration
Resource configuration
Debug configuration
Output configuration including the ability to output to a console or serial port
ANSI Mapping configuration
Device I/O configuration

Platforms Supported for Host Development

Windows XP
Linux
Solaris*
*Available soon

Supported Development APIs

BASE OS Abstractor
POSIX OS Abstractor
VxWorks
pSOS
Nucleus

Supported Target Operating Systems

VxWorks 6x®, VxWorks 5x®, Linux 2.4®, Linux 2.6®, LynxOS®, LynxOS-SE®, Solaris, Unix®, Windows CE®, Windows XP®, MQX®, QNX®

Platforms Supported for OS PAL Profiler

VxWorks 6x®, VxWorks 5x®, Linux 2.4®, Linux 2.6®, LynxOS®, LynxOS-SE®, Solaris, Unix®, Windows CE®, Windows XP®, QNX®

For Technical Managers

OS PAL Business-sense Highlights:

Allows end users to develop code on their preferred OS
Add feature-rich services in a cost effective manner
Enables a high degree of usability and productivity
Don’t be constrained by limited target hardware

Begin development before the hardware is available to improve time to market
Simulate your project on a host machine for customer presentations

Reduce the learning curve associated with adopting a new OS
Reduce time consuming and costly maintenance
Expand your market share and opportunities
Provide flexibility to your customers to use your software on their preferred OS platform
Protect your software investment from OS platform changes in the future
Easily adapt for more cost effective development
Eclipse is the industry de facto standard