Micrium Unveils uC/TimeSpaceOS - Addresses Rapidly Growing Safety-Critical Market

BOSTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ESC BOSTON – Micrium, a leader in real-time operating system software and safety-critical solutions, today announced uC/TimeSpaceOS, enabling complex segments of software with a variety of safety levels to be executed on a single core. Micrium's uC/TimeSpaceOS manages both memory and time allocated to diverse applications and enables the certification of complex systems on a more cost-effective basis than is currently possible. It also expands existing safety-critical products with non-safety critical complex middleware such as TCP-IP, File System (FS) and USB.

"Micrium's uC/TimeSpaceOS is an elegant solution that uses a memory management unit (MMU) in a unique way," said Jean Labrosse, founder, president and CEO of Micrium. "uC/TimeSpaceOS simplifies MMU use, taking a complex piece of hardware and requiring that only time and memory allocation be identified. Application development becomes substantially easier with its use, resulting in cost and time-to-market benefits."

Unlike existing solutions, the uC/TimeSpaceOS is ideal for use with small microcontrollers having as little as 64KB of RAM and larger systems such as PowerPC and Cortex-A9 equipped with megabytes RAM.

uC/TimeSpaceOS addresses such safety-critical market segments as avionics, medical, transportation, and industrial applications, providing such features and benefits as:

• Memory protection so that applications can be executed so that multiple applications cannot influence, disturb or interact with each other
• Runtime guarantee so that runtime performance can be anticipated at any time (deterministic)
• Configurable in that virtual Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is optionally available.
• A small footprint for use in a wide-range of applications
• Compatibility: can be used within the protected segment in existing uC/OS-II applications.

The uC/TimeSpaceOS will be available from Micrium and its distributors and is priced at less than $30,000.

About Micrium

Micrium provides the highest quality embedded software components by way of cleanest source code, unsurpassed documentation, and customer support. Starting with Micrium's flagship product, uC/OS through its complete line of software, Micrium shortens time to market throughout all product development cycles and builds products that address today's increased design complexity. For additional information, visit: www.Micrium.com.

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