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Tokyo, Japan. November 20, 2008 - eSOL, a leading developer of real time embedded software solutions,
announced today that its prominent eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition now provides
a "Memory Partitioning Option" to protect memory across different
cores and partitions while maintaining software reusability, system reliability,
and design flexibility. eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition is based on the symmetric
multiprocessing (SMP) model, yet incorporates benefits of the asymmetric
multiprocessing (AMP) model to offer deterministic characteristics for
real time embedded applications. The Memory Partitioning Option is best
suited for automotive applications, aerospace instruments, high-end consumer
electronics, and office automation products with memory management units
(MMUs) to attain high reliability and high quality within the system. Recent software and hardware advancements in multi-core technology have
opened up new system design opportunities for integrating multiple sub-systems
that run on separate processors. The problem with this approach is that
each sub-system is growing bigger and becoming more complex, putting one
reliable sub-system at risk from another corrupted sub-system sharing the
memory space. An alternative solution is paravirtualization or hyper-visor
to partition cores into different partitions and deploy different operating
systems for each partition; however, this will unnecessarily reduce the
flexibility of system design where multiple sub-systems need to work more
closely together. Paravirtualization also limits the effective reuse of
existing software programs, especially those designed for an AMP environment.
The solution to these challenges is an operating system in which the scheduling
domains are separate for AMP and SMP-type cores, and memory protection
across different cores and partitions is in place. eSOL has successfully
pioneered its memory partitioning technology and incorporated it into its
preeminent eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition. It features software reuse and
high reliability where a legacy single-core processor-based AMP system
can be easily migrated to a multi-core processor system. The device drivers
and other system software, such as middleware, can be reused as-is. eT-Kernel
Multi-Core Edition Memory Partitioning will detect any violation of accessing
another partition's local memory, greatly helping the development and assuring
the quality of deployed systems.
Furthermore, the benefit of using a single OS extends to development tools.
eSOL provides the eBinder integrated development environment for eT-Kernel,
consisting of a compiler, configuration tools, shell, debugger, and analysis
tools. The same set of tools supports both single-core and multi-core processors.
- More detail about eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition
- More detail about eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition Memory Partitioning Option
"As systems grow larger and more complicated, reliability and high
quality have become the highest priority for embedded developers,"
said Nobuyuki Ueyama, the Executive Vice President of eSOL Co., Ltd. "Compared
to hypervisor, which originates from a network server with significantly
different design and functionality elements, the Memory Partitioning Option
has been developed specifically for embedded systems with eSOL's 30 years
of proven formulas and methods. Whether you use a single core or multi-core,
with or without memory partitioning, fundamental benefits lie in the fact
that you still use a single OS and IDE, and you will get high productivity
in your development cycle."
eSOL will demonstrate features of the "Memory Partitioning Option"
at its booth (#C-39) at Embedded Technology 2008, Yokohama, Japan, on Nov.19
- 21, 2008.
About eSOL
Founded in 1975 in Tokyo, Japan, eSOL is a leading embedded software developer
with core technologies in real time operating systems. We develop, market
and sell proven RTOS suites, along with a rich set of vertically-oriented
middleware libraries. Our rugged software development tools provide optimal
reliability in backing up the highly complicated development process for
RTOS-based applications. We know that a reliable RTOS and development tools
make a significant difference to the quality and timeliness of our customers'
products in a continuously growing and competitive world market. Today,
our customers - global OEMs and ODMs ranging from consumer electronics
to automotive applications - ship millions of products with technologies
pioneered by eSOL.
For more information, please visit www.esol.com.
* eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition, eBinder, and eT-Kernel are registered trademarks
of eSOL Co., Ltd.
* All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective companies.
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