Nuremberg, Embedded World 2nd – 4th March 2010 – Renesas Technology Europe announced today that it has partnered with the FreeRTOS program to provide FreeRTOS support for the new SH7216 microcontroller device. FreeRTOS is a portable, open source real time kernel that is currently the de facto standard in cross-platform operating systems for embedded microcontrollers. The announcement is significant as it represents the first official port of FreeRTOS for the SuperH line of microcontrollers from Renesas. The port will especially benefit customers wanting to use the SuperH in connectivity or real time applications. The combined hardware and software provides high performance along with ease of use, helping customers to get their applications up and running much more rapidly.
\nThe SH7216 is one of Renesas’ newest and already one of the most successful microprocessors in the portfolio. It integrates the industry leading SH2-A core, capable of 200 MHz operation and 480 DMIPS, with an IEEE-compliant floating point unit. The SH-2A also enables extremely fast interrupt response (in as little as 30 ns) ensuring that the SH7216 can also be used for applications with a true “real-time” requirement.
\nAlong with the high-performance core, the SH7216 includes up to 1MB MONOS flash, the industry’s fastest embedded flash available exclusively from Renesas.
\nThe main peripherals of the SH7216 include multiple communication interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN and USB. For motor control it has two dedicated timer units, each capable of automatic deadtime insertion, deadtime optimisation and automatic synchronisation with the analogue to digital converter.
\nFreeRTOSTM is an open source embedded real time operating system. With more than 77,500 downloads in 2008 and over 7000 downloads per month it is amongst the world’s most popular and widely used embedded operating systems.
\nThe operating system’s modified GPL license allows users to deploy applications without publishing their proprietary application code. Support for the FreeRTOS kernel across 24 architectures is provided by an active FreeRTOS user community.
\nFreeRTOS is compatible with the commercially supported OpenRTOS and can be upgraded to SafeRTOS, a SIL3 RTOS version that has been certified by T\u00dcV S\u00dcD for use in safety critical applications. This enables users to design and test applications for free and upgrade to a commercial licence at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nuremberg, Embedded World 2nd – 4th March 2010 – Renesas Technology Europe announced today that it has partnered with the FreeRTOS program to provide FreeRTOS support for the new SH7216 microcontroller device. FreeRTOS is a portable, open source real time kernel that is currently the de facto standard in cross-platform operating systems for embedded microcontrollers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}