LEON3

Altreonic has released v. 1.1 of its OpenVE for OpenComRTOS. This version was improved to better support heterogeneous target systems and has an easier interface to the host server. The Win32 version is available free of charge from our download section. OpenVE now supports a growing number of embedded targets as well (in Single Processor and Multi-Processor versions).

The current list includes: Xilinx MicroBlaze, Leon3, ARM Cortex M3 and the multi-core XMOS

In a demo set-up, boards with all supported targets were seamlessly programmed and demonstrated.

You can experience this seamless heterogeneous real-time processing first hand. For 2995 euro we deliver a bundle containing OpenComRTOS for Win32 and ARM Cortex M3, both supported from within OpenVE, the Event Tracer and  a Luminary LM3S6965 development kit. Applications can be seamlessly distributed over the host PC and the ARM board out-of-the-box. See OpenComRTOS for ARM bundle for more details.

LEON3 is a 32bit SPARC CPU used by the European Space Agency. It is available in commercial as well as in fault-tolerant versions with SEU capability from e.g. Gaisler Research. A first port was undertaken using a Xilinx FPGA board.

A small "ping-pong" test program using two tasks and two semaphores compiled down to 6092 bytes and was measured at 73  microseconds for a complete loop (clock frequency 50 MHz).

A first release is scheduled for end November.