Enea OSE Systems and Motorola Develop Commercial Solution for CompactPCI.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1998--Enea OSE OSE - Open Systems Environment Systems today announced plans to collaborate with Motorola Computer Group (MCG) to develop options for CompactPCI(R) high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solutions for the telecommunications industry. MCG brings the necessary hardware while Enea OSE Systems offers the OSE real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. to support fault-tolerant and high-availability telecom applications. The companies intend to supply off-the-shelf solutions in an area that has formerly been dominated by proprietary systems that are costly to develop and maintain. The cooperation is precipitated by a rapid growth in the need for commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded computing platforms in the telecommunications arena, along with increased design complexity and shrinking time-scales. CompactPCI supports telecom with high-performance processing and reliable high-speed I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output . The technology's modular, easily maintainable mechanical structure, combined with sound thermal management and straightforward cable access makes CompactPCI ideal for the Telecom Central Office (CO) environment. But CompactPCI by itself does not satisfy telecommunications applications' requirements for high-availability and fault-tolerance--requirements that are necessary to avoid costly systems shut-downs. Developed specifically for telecommunications applications, the OSE(tm) new generation real-time operating system (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) is tailor-made to support fault-tolerance in high-availability systems. OSE's message-passing based architecture makes it ideal for applications that require both fault-tolerance and hot-swapping capabilities in either single-board and single-CPU systems or fully distributed Fully distributed A new stock issue that has been completely resold to the investing public and is no longer held by dealers. fully distributed Of or relating to a new issue of securities that has been sold out. systems using numerous boards and processors. "OSE's real-time operating system offers the kind of support for fault-tolerance and high availability that is appropriate to the telecommunications applications we are targeting with CompactPCI," said Bill Donlan, vice president and director, telecommunications business unit at MCG. "Combining OSE's simple architecture and powerful kernel with CompactPCI's speed and durability could produce the kind of off-the-shelf solution that the telecom industry has needed for years." "Our goal in this collaboration is to enable telecommunications developers to focus on designing their applications rather than creating proprietary systems to support high availability and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. ," said Lars Osterberg, president, Enea OSE Systems AB. "Many telecommunications companies are spending large portions of their R&D budgets on creating and maintaining operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Powerful off-the-shelf systems will create cost and time savings that can be redirected into application development." Contact Information For more information, send an e-mail message to info@enea.com. Please visit our web site at http://www.enea.com. About Enea OSE Systems Enea OSE Systems is the technological leader for real-time operating systems and development tools for building distributed and fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. . With over 60 employees, Enea OSE Systems is a subsidiary of Enea Data, a Swedish company founded in 1968 and listed on the Swedish Stock Exchange. The core of Enea OSE Systems' business has always been the development of time-critical and highly reliable real-time operating systems and time saving, efficient, development tools. Enea OSE Systems supplies real-time operating systems and associated tools to top companies in the telecommunications, data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , process control, automotive, defense, biomedical technology Biomedical technology involves the application of engineering and technology principles to the domain of living or biological systems. Usually biomedical denotes a greater stress on problems related to human health and diseases. and consumer electronic industries. The OSE RTOS supports fault-tolerant systems that are designed to allow recovery from hardware and software failures. OSE differs from other RTOSs by adopting message-passing as its primary method of interprocess communication. Developed to support fully distributed systems, OSE's message-passing model allows messages to be allocated from the memory pool, conserving memory and avoiding fragmentation. Because of its support for high-availability systems, OSE has a particularly significant impact in the telecommunications industry. The OSE RTOS includes built-in safety features that have qualified it for International Electrotechnical Commission See IEC. (standard, body) International Electrotechnical Commission - (IEC) A standardisation body at the same level as ISO. (IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission ) 61508 certification. IEC 61508 for Functional Safety of Safety Related Systems is a standard for safety-critical systems. About Motorola The Motorola Computer Group is a leading worldwide supplier of computer board products and computer systems platform products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in technical and embedded markets. MCG is part of Motorola's Automotive, Component, Computer and Energy Sector which comprises five major businesses recognized for delivering leadership solutions to customers in the form of platform-based embedded controls and integrated components. Information about MCG's products is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.mcg.mot.com. OSE is a trademark of Enea OSE Systems. Motorola and the Motorola logo are registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc. PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation and is used by Motorola, Inc. under license from International Business Machines Corporation. CompactPCI is a registered trademark of the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Enea OSE Systems Inc. Mike Dager, 214-346-9339 mdager@enea.com OR Motorola Computer Group Terri Thorson, 602-438-3287 OR Rainier Corporation Nicolas Boillot, 978-464-5302 x125 nicolas@rainierco.com |
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