July 11, 2011 – Objective Interface Systems announced that its ORBexpress product supports the QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS) 6.5. OIS is a long-time partner of QNX Software Systems Limited, and the ORBexpress communications middleware framework supports the QNX Neutrino RTOS on a variety of ARM, Power and x86 processors.
ORBexpress is a secure real-time implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard. The ORBexpress product provides a common communication platform that is available on a variety of processors, operating systems, compilers, and in C++, Ada, Java and VHDL for FPGA implementations. The QNX Neutrino RTOS is a full-featured and robust RTOS that scales down to meet the constrained resource requirements of real-time embedded systems. It also provides a field-proven strategy for migrating from single-core to multi-core processing.
The QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.5 offers symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) on ARM, Power and x86 processors, and can support SMP on processors with up to 32 cores, providing massive scalability for compute-intensive applications. ORBexpress complements the proven multi-core capabilities of the QNX Neutrino RTOS. The ORBexpress communications software fully supports multi-threading for achieving concurrency by making more efficient use of shared resources. Using ORBexpress and the QNX Neutrino RTOS, developers can add multiple cores for increased performance without having to rewrite their applications.