Express Logic and PolyCore Software have announced the first commercial RTOS integration of the Multicore Association’s recently released Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) specification. MCAPI provides an industry standard, implementation agnostic API for multicore systems communication. PolyCore Software’s Poly-Messenger/MCAPI is a communications framework simplifying multicore communication. Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS is a widely-used, small, fast, royalty-free real-time operating system for embedded applications.
Poly-Messenger/MCAPI and Poly-GeneratorT enable application developers to design, program, and manage communications in multicore systems. Poly-Messenger/MCAPI supports different logical and physical onchip network structures that allows migration of applications from a single- to multicore architectures. Poly-Generator helps the developer to easily manage the communications topology for optimal performance throughout the development process. Poly-Messenger/MCAPI provides a platform for reuse of legacy code, offering developers a much-needed migration path where previously written single-processor multithreaded code can be optimally distributed across multiple cores. Poly-Messenger/MCAPI offers a unified standard interface, providing an abstraction layer to the underlying interconnections.
Through a joint development effort between Express Logic and PolyCore Software, Poly-Messenger/MCAPI now provides MCAPI support for applications running Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS. Poly-Messenger/MCAPI provides efficient standardized communication between application threads running on ThreadX, across multiple instantiations of ThreadX, and/or multiple OS instantiations across multiple cores. By providing developers with a real-time multicore development platform, Express Logic and PolyCore Software have made a significant step in addressing multicore software development challenges.
To speed development, Poly-Messenger/MCAPI enables applications to be developed, and functionally debugged, on a single processor or simulator using virtual nodes and subsequently deployed on multicore target hardware. Application development and migration can thus start before availability of target hardware, and functional debugging and application scaling is simplified. Changing from virtual nodes to target hardware is simple, using PolyCore Software’s Poly-GeneratorTM topology generator. Whether moving existing single processor applications to a multicore architecture, or developing new multicore applications, developers benefit from the run-time solutions and tools provided by Poly-Messenger/MCAPI, Poly-Generator and ThreadX that reduce their risk, development costs, and time-to-market.
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