Enea Embedded Technology Announces Version 5.0 of OSE Real-Time Operating System; Adds Significant Networking, Memory Management and Ease-of-Use Facilities.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco 2004

ESC Booth # 2026

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2004

Enea Embedded Technology, formerly OSE Systems, today announced version 5.0 of the OSE real-time operating system (RTOS). Optimized for wireless devices and telecom networking systems, OSE 5.0 features dynamic program management for persistent media, new virtual memory and memory savings capabilities, enhanced networking support, multimedia flash support and new ease-of-use features that make it easier than ever to install and configure. OSE 5.0 will initially be available for ARM and Xscale processors, including Motorola's new ARM-based i.MX21 platform, which is optimized for mobile wireless applications. PowerPC and MIPS support will follow in Q4 this year.

"Version 5.0 marks a significant upgrade for the industry's most advanced high-availability RTOS," said Eva Skoglund, product marketing manager at Enea Embedded Technology. "OSE 5.0 is easier than ever to configure and start up, and provides a host of new memory/program management and networking capabilities that enhance efficiency and flexibility, boost performance and simplify overall system design and integration."

Networking support for OSE 5.0 includes a dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack with MobileIP capability. The stack is available in two versions, a full-featured stack for routing applications that provides advanced security, virtual routing and NAT capabilities, and a compact, high-performance stack optimized for deeply-embedded, resource-constrained applications. OSE 5.0 also offers a comprehensive suite of networking applications, including DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, Telnet, Web Server, SSL and IPSec.

OSE 5.0 features dynamic program management for persistent media such as flash memory, which enables programs to be loaded into flash, execute in place, and survive restarts. OSE 5.0 provides full memory protection for dynamically loaded programs, reclaims memory without fragmentation when it unloads programs, and supports loading/unloading of drivers when new hardware is added/removed. OSE 5.0 also provides multimedia flash support for real-time multithreaded applications such as streaming video.

OSE 5.0 provides enhanced virtual memory support that enables it to leverage both the memory protection and virtual memory translation facilities of hardware MMUs. OSE 5.0 also provides new memory savings features, including a modular architecture that reduces static memory usage, and a dynamic software download mechanism that minimizes buffer usage.

OSE 5.0 provides a number of new features that make it easier to configure, start up and use. Each board that OSE supports, for example, comes with a Software Reference System that provides turnkey build facilities. This system, which includes a build and configuration framework, board-specific drivers, a full-featured OSE sample system, and sample application modules, enables designers to bring up a full system in less than an hour without a debugger. OSE also supports dynamic OS and system configuration, which enables systems to determine their configuration during run time instead of compile time, and enables the configuration to be changed and the image updated while the system is running. To enhance reliability and portability, OSE 5.0 provides separate application and system programming interfaces.

More on the OSE RTOS

OSE is a compact, pre-emptive, memory-protected, multi-processor RTOS optimized for distributed, fault-tolerant applications that demand the utmost in reliability, security and availability. OSE enhances reliability and availability by utilizing the target processor's memory management unit to build a firewall between kernel and application processes, thereby preventing these processes from corrupting each other. OSE further enhances reliability and availability by providing automatic failure detection and supervision (health monitoring) of system processes and applications.

To streamline and simplify distributed communications, OSE's Link Handler provides an application- and device-independent message-passing protocol that makes interprocess communications transparent to programs running on different CPUs. OSE also features a power management system that extends battery life, a crash-safe file system with flash support, and dynamic download capability, which enhances mobile device flexibility by enabling new applications to be downloaded to systems as they operate in the field.

Development support for OSE includes the ARM compiler (ARM Developer Suite) and C source-code debuggers from ISYSTEM (winIDEA) and Mentor Graphics (X-RAY). To facilitate higher-level application debugging, OSE also offers OSE Illuminator. Tightly integrated with both ISYSTEM and X-RAY, Illuminator enables programmers to monitor and control their applications as a sequence of events, such as context switches and message passing between processes. OSE also offers its own Softkernel simulator, which enables designers to start developing their OSE/ARM applications in advance of hardware availability. Board Support Packages are available for Motorola's iMX21, Intrinsyc's Cerfboard and CerfPOD, Vytek's RedHawk and ARM Ltd.'s Integrator.

Price and availability

OSE 5.0 is available immediately from Enea starting at $8,000 for a single developer's seat.

About Enea Embedded Technology

Enea Embedded Technology is a leading provider of real-time operating systems, development tools and services for fault-tolerant, high-availability and safety-critical applications. Enea Embedded Technology owns and markets the OSE real-time operating system. OSE is used in millions of products worldwide, including distributed communication systems such as communication infrastructure or mobile phones, avionics, medical, automotive and industrial control systems. Enea Embedded Technology is a subsidiary of Enea Data (SAXESS:ENEA), based in Stockholm, Sweden. Employing nearly 600 people worldwide, Enea Data provides products, services and training for a variety of real-time embedded, IT and e-business applications. Customers include industry leaders such as Ericsson, Lockheed Martin, Samsung, Agere Systems, Sony and Boeing. For more information on Enea Embedded Technology, visit www.ose.com. For more information on Enea visit www.enea.com.

OSE is a registered trademark of Enea Embedded Technology. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.