Micrium RTOS for the Free MPLAB IDE for PIC Microcontroller Development

Micrium and Microchip Technology now provides Kernel Awareness for Micrium’s uC/OS-II real-time operating system (RTOS) in Microchip’s free MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Micrium and Microchip share a philosophy of providing quality tools that can be evaluated by the development community prior to purchase. Micrium’s RTOS and recently announced TCP/IP stack, and Microchip’s free development environment, are downloadable from each company’s respective

Jim Pepping, development systems third party support manager for Microchip said:

We see Micrium as a leader in RTOS technology. Its products are highly recognized and requested by our customers…

…MPLAB IDE users can now take advantage of the Micrium RTOS and other middleware to quickly develop their products
 

Jean Labrosse, Micrium president and CEO said:

As processor performance and design complexity continue to increase, an RTOS becomes invaluable for design development…

…The uC/OS-II RTOS, Micrium’s flagship product, manages up to 255 diverse application tasks. We are proud that Microchip has decided to provide uC/OS-II Kernel Awareness capabilities in its MPLAB IDE, and we look forward to a long-term relationship.

MPLAB IDE is an integrated toolset for the development of embedded applications using Microchip’s PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® digital signal controllers. The easy-to-use IDE serves as a single, unified graphical user interface for Microchip and third-party development tools. It is free.

Micrium uC/OS-II RTOS is a portable, small footprint , ROMable, scalable, preemptive real-time, multitasking kernel for microprocessors and microcontrollers.