Express Logic and IAR Systems team up to provide ThreadX RTOS support in IAR Embedded Workbench IDE for Freescale ColdFire

Express Logic and IAR Systems have announced that IAR Embedded Workbench now supports Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS. Developers using ThreadX now can elect to use IAR Embedded Workbench IDE for their ColdFire software development tools.
IAR Embedded Workbench, with support for ColdFire V1, V2 and V3 cores, is a set of highly sophisticated and easy-to-use development tools—C/C++ compiler, assembler, linker, librarian, text editor, project manager, and debugger—combined in an integrated development environment (IDE) for programming embedded applications. With its built-in chip-specific code optimizer, IAR Embedded Workbench generates very efficient and reliable flash/PROMable code for ColdFire devices. IAR Embedded Workbench includes a ThreadX-aware debugger that helps developers view kernel objects (threads, queues, semaphores, mutexes, etc.) during application development.

Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS is a popular small-footprint, fast, easy-to-use RTOS for ColdFire-based applications. ThreadX supports ColdFire application development with a preemptive real-time scheduler, memory allocation/deallocation, fast interrupt handling, and many other RTOS services. ThreadX helps developers speed application development and time-to-market with its intuitive API and excellent documentation and support. With over 450 million ThreadX-powered products deployed, ThreadX is one of the most widely used RTOSes for embedded systems in consumer electronics, medical equipment, industrial automation, wireless networking, and automotive applications.

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