October 24, 2013 – Express Logic adds ThreadX kernel awareness for the ARM Development Studio-5 (DS-5) tools. Kernel awareness, which provides greater levels of transparency into the thread and task management of a system, speeds the development and debug of applications. Kernel awareness provides on-demand views of kernel data structures such as threads, queues, semaphores, and other objects of interest during the debug process. With this feature, at any point in time, a developer can set a breakpoint and, on hitting that point, easily see the status of all system threads and resources. The DS-5 plug-in provides the following ThreadX RTOS views:
- Comprehensive thread list with thread status and objects on which the threads are blocked/suspended, if any
- All major ThreadX objects including semaphores, mutexes, memory pools, message queues, event flags, and timers
- Stack usage for individual threads
By adding kernel awareness for the ARM DS-5 tools, ThreadX delivers shorter development time. Developers gain greater visibility into ThreadX objects throughout the development process, giving them a quality, robust option for ARM-based embedded development. ThreadX is a small-footprint, royalty-free source code RTOS for SoC and other resource-constrained devices in consumer electronics, wireless networking, medical equipment, and industrial automation. ThreadX supports the full range of ARM processor architectures, including the Cortex-M0/M3/M4/R5/A5/A8/A9 cores, and is used in over 1.5 billion electronic products worldwide.
Developed by ARM architecture experts, the ARM DS-5 toolchain enables engineers to develop robust and highly optimized embedded software for ARM application processors, such as the Cortex-A series, Cortex-R real-time processors, and other ARM embedded processors. The DS-5 toolchain comprises tools such as the best-in-class ARM C/C++ Compiler, a powerful Linux/Android/RTOS-aware debugger, the ARM Streamline system-wide performance analyzer, and real-time system model simulators, all conveniently packaged in a user-friendly integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse.