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Enea to Offer Operating System Solution for OMAP's ARM and DSP

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Enea Embedded Technology, formerly OSE Systems, and a leading provider of software solutions for the communications market, announced the availability of the OSE real-time operating system (RTOS), development tools and board support packages (BSPs) for Texas Instruments' OMAP(TM) platform. OSE is one of the first RTOSes to support OMAP's ARM and DSP cores, and the only RTOS that offers a single API for developing robust, scaleable, multimedia-enhanced multi-core applications.

Enea also announced that it is working with Vytek, a TI independent OMAP Technology Center (OTC), to provide system integration and other services to OEMs who are interested in developing and deploying OMAP systems utilizing the OSE RTOS. Vytek will provide hardware, software and even packaging design, as well as overall system integration services for OSE-based OMAP systems. Enea and Vytek are already actively engaged with a number of medical equipment manufacturers in this regard.

"OSE provides an excellent solution for embedded applications like medical diagnostics equipment that place an emphasis on high reliability, high availability and real-time responsiveness," said Kevin Wixom, senior vice president, Vytek. "We look forward to working with Enea to offer hardware/software design and integration services that speed evaluation, development and deployment for consumer and industrial products that utilize OMAP and OSE platforms."

The OSE OMAP solution combines two components: the full-featured OSE RTOS, which runs on the ARM core; and OSEck, a compact version of OSE optimized for the TMS320C55x DSP core. OSE and OSEck share the same API, which eliminates the need to master separate RTOS programming environments, and enables designers to create portable code that can run on either processor. OSE and OSEck also share the same message-based interprocess communications model, which simplifies development by enabling designers to establish communications between processes running on the two cores as if they were running on a single core.

# posted by Medical Information : 5:14 AM