AVIX For Microchip PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC DSCs

“Microchip is pleased with the continued support provided by AVIX,” said Sumit Mitra, vice president of Microchip’s High Performance Microcontroller Division. “Our new, rapidly growing, third-generation 70 MIPS dsPIC33E and PIC24E 16-bit DSC and MCU families are ideally suited for multitasking applications, which benefit from the fast and efficient AVIX-RT Real-Time Operating System. Embedded designers can take advantage of this to improve the operation of their applications.”



With this latest addition, on a single AVIX license, applications may be developed for every member of the impressive Microchip 16-bit controller families.



The AVIX RTOS offers features not found in any competing product, the most distinguishing being ‘True Zero Latency’. AVIX allows extremely high interrupt rates with latency equal to that of the underlying hardware because it never disables interrupts. As such, AVIX is a perfect match for the advanced interrupt structure offered by the PIC24 MCU and dsPIC DSC architectures. The ‘True Zero Latency’ feature does not come with any limitation and AVIX based interrupt handlers are allowed to make many system calls leading to interrupt handlers being fully integrated in the application. Offering zero latency combined with full interrupt handler-application integration is unique in the market and distinguishes AVIX from competing products, a distinction emphasized by adding ‘True’ to ‘Zero Latency’.



AVIX offers low RAM consumption by offering a proprietary stack for interrupt handling, leading to a substantial reduction of the stack size of every thread in the application.



For testing, AVIX comes with the unique ‘Thread Activation Tracing’, allowing real time monitoring of thread activity. Combined with Kernel Aware Debugging plug-ins, this offers advanced testing capabilities.