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OpenRTOS Cortus collaboration speeds app development in low power MCUs

28th April 2010

Wittenstein High Integrity Systems Limited

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OpenRTOS and FreeRTOS have just been released for the Cortus APS3, a 32-bit CPU for small footprint, low power applications. The Cortus APS3 is a general-purpose processor, which has been specifically designed to meet the needs of embedded systems. The 0.04mm2 of silicon (TSMC 65nm) features the lowest available dynamic power consumption (uW per MHz), as well as a high code density and high performance.

David Brook of Wittenstein said the release of Open and FreeRTOS for this specialised core was driven by customer demand and will be a real benefit to developers using this architecture for low power applications.

OpenRTOS is a commercially supported real-time operating system based on FreeRTOS. Earlier this month it was reported that FreeRTOS continued to make significant advances into commercial applications when it topped an industry survey of engineers, who stated they would use the kernel in 2010.

The small, efficient kernel uses less than 10k flash and a few hundred bytes of RAM on the Cortus APS3.

Mike Chapman, CEO of Cortus, said We are delighted that our customers now have access to one of the most popular embedded operating systems for their developments.