Ardence Announces Phar Lap Embedded RTOS Tool Suite v.14.0

Ardence announced the version 14.0 of its Phar Lap Embedded Tool Suite (ETS), a small footprint, stand alone embedded RTOS (Real Time Operating System). The latest version features updated support for the Microsoft Visual Studio product suite. It enhances the widely-deployed and well-known Microsoft Developer Studio IDE with a number of plug-ins.

About Ardence
Ardence, a Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) company, develops real-time software platforms for the embedded world. The Ardence Embedded OEM Development Platform delivers market-leading operating system control capabilities that enable OEMs to increase system performance, device configuration and management. In addition to ETS, the Ardence product portfolio encompasses RTX, ReadyOn, and Select. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Ardence is the leader in hard real-time embedded solutions for Windows environments.

The new version of  Phar Lap Embedded Tool Suite offer some enhancements, including:

• Embedded StudioExpress support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• ETS applications can now be debugged over a TCP/IP network connection
• Expanded sample program support for all supported Visual Studio environments
• Usability enhancements to most Embedded Tool Suite utilities
• Many other device driver enhancements, additional Ethernet controller support, and more

Continuing its previous version, Phar Lap ETS also features:

• High Performance x86 RTOS: Sustained interrupt rates of > 30KHz
• Smallest Operational Footprint: <500KB with I/O, graphics, and TCP/IP
• Design Flexibility: Deployable in either monolithic or split kernel/application models
• Support for all Standard PC Hardware platforms
• Real-time File System: High speed media access with FAT16 and FAT32 support
• Fully Win32 API Compliant: No need to use code wrappers for API mapping
• Complete IA32 X86 CPU Support: 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, Xeon, as well as AMD CPUs
• Microsoft’s Developer Studio VS 6.0, .NET 2002: Develop, compile and debug in the standard Windows development environment
• Integrated Winsock Compliant Real-time TCP/IP Stack
• Round-robin and Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm: Includes Priority Inversion Avoidance – ensures that lower priority threads do not impact the performance of higher priority threads
• Memory Protection: Leverages the x86 architecture to ensure robust applications
• Real-time USB: USB 1.1 and 2.0 compliant with support for EHCI, UHCI and OHCI controller and devices

More info: Ardence’s Phar Lap Embedded RTOS Tool Suite