At the time of its release, pSOSystem 3 served as a modular, high-performance, memory-protected RTOS designed specifically for embedded microprocessors, providing a complete multitasking environment and offering performance, reliability, and ease-of-use on both custom and commercial hardware.
pSOSystem 3 has been used for such target applications as handheld devices, multimedia products, data communications and telecommunications, and digital imaging products.
Technical Specifications
Supported Hosts
- Windows NT 4/2000
- UNIX-Solaris
Supported Targets
- Freescale/IBM PowerPC architecture family
- Freescale/IBM PPC6xx, 7xx, 74xx
- Freescale MPC8xx, 82xx
- IBM PPC403
- MIPS architecture family
- MIPS 16, 32, R500
Features and Benefits
- Support for a wide variety of CPUs and drivers
- Fast, deterministic kernel
- Memory management and protection
- Resource monitoring
- Exception management
- Preemptive tasking environment
- Reliable, as proven in more than 40 million customer devices worldwide
- Popular board support packages (BSPs) supplied in source-code format
- File system support includes ISO9660 (CD-ROM), MS-DOS compatible file systems, NFS, and a high-performance embedded file system
- State-of-the-art pRISM+ 3 integrated development environment
- Tools for developing, analyzing, and testing embedded applications
- Simplifies navigation through legacy code and enables code reuse
