September 19, 2011 – Objective Interface Systems announced that its ORBexpress product now supports Wind River’s VxWorks 6.9 real-time operating system (RTOS) with Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) on multicore platforms. Wind River’s VxWorks 6.9 platform features multicore support capabilities within the operating system, network stack, and development tools in order to deliver an easy migration path to multicore technology for embedded software developers.
The VxWorks 6.9 release offers greater multicore processing performance in symmetric multiprocessing and asymmetrical multiprocessing configurations. ORBexpress has a multi-threaded communications architecture that scales seamlessly in a multicore environment. Designed for real-time and embedded systems, ORBexpress is used by thousands of customers around the world and is proven reliable in systems where failure is not an option. The ORBexpress communications software fully supports multi-threading for achieving concurrency by making more efficient use of shared resources.
By implementing ORBexpress on VxWorks 6.9 RTOS, developers can seamlessly move their application to a multicore environment without rewriting their code. ORBexpress supports VxWorks 6.9 on a variety of processors including the x86, ARM, PowerPC, and other processor families.