Percepio AB has teamed up with PX5 to support the launch of a new real-time operating system (RTOS). PX5 has been set up by Bill Lamie, the former chief technology officer of Express Logic and architect of the Nucleus and ThreadX (Azure RTOS) real-time operating systems.
The industrial-grade PX5 RTOS is an advanced, fifth generation RTOS designed for the most demanding embedded applications. The PX5 RTOS features a native implementation of the industry standard POSIX pThreads API. In addition to the native POSIX pThread support with semaphores and message queues, the PX5 RTOS also offers real-time extensions such as event flags, fast queues, tick timers, memory management, and more.
PX5 enables a wide range of software stacks, both open source and commercial, to run on real-time embedded IoT platforms. All of this results in reduced time-to-market, improved firmware quality, and portability across platforms that help enhance device maker’s firmware development investment.
PX5 will integrate the Percepio Tracealyzer trace recorder, and Percepio will support the new PX5 RTOS with a commercially available version.