Express Logic Inc., in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced that Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS now supports the ARM Cortex-M3 microprocessor. According to the company this implementation of ThreadX delivers a small footprint, fast RTOS, designed specifically for deeply embedded applications based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. Target applications include high-volume consumer, automotive and industrial devices.
Haydn Povey, CPU product manager at ARM, said, "ThreadX enabled us to test many of the operating characteristics of the Cortex-M3 processor to ensure it would perform well in the most demanding of real-time applications. Express Logic has been a long-time Partner of ours, and we appreciate their help in supporting our Cortex-M3 processor development. The commercial release of ThreadX for the Cortex-M3 processor will be available to developers through Express Logic, and it can be used with our RealView development tools. With microcontroller products based on the Cortex-M3 processor expected to ship in early 2006, it is important for ARM to rapidly develop a broad supporting ecosystem for the new core, and RTOSes such as ThreadX play a critical role in this for our Partners and the device end-users."
William E. Lamie, president of Express Logic, stated, "We are honored that ARM elected to use our ThreadX RTOS to validate the design of their new Cortex-M3 microprocessor. ARM's use of ThreadX shows its value as one of the most dependable and reliable RTOSes for ARM processors; ARM Partners can be confident that the combination of the Cortex-M3 processor and ThreadX has been well tested and has passed with flying colors."
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