CROSS-OS DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM ADVANTAGES
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The Cross-OS Development Platform is a C/C++ source-level virtualization technology that allows developers to write applications that can run on multiple operating systems without porting. It provides a common OS interface and virtualizes OS functions so that applications interact with the Cross-OS Development Platform interfaces rather than directly with the OS. This protects applications from being tied to a single OS and simplifies porting to new OSes. The platform includes tools for developing on a host system, generating optimized code for embedded targets, and profiling applications on different OSes.
CROSS-OS DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM ADVANTAGES
- 1. Development Platform Technical Datasheet Cross-OS Development Platform™ is a C/C++ source-level virtualization technology that provides a robust and industry standard OS interface architecture for flexible real-time application development, while allowing the user to protect the software from being locked to one OS. This negates future porting issues because the software will support multiple operating systems and versions from the beginning. It also eliminates the risk associated with the OS selection process, since the same application can be tested on multiple platforms for comparison and won’t be tied to the chosen OS. Cross-OS Development Platform – Benefits: • Cross-OS Development Platform will support your future operating system and hardware requirements while making any change of your OS easy, simple and quick • Enhances the robustness and performance of your application with advanced real-time features • Offers support for a wide variety of target and host OS platforms • Reduces the code maintenance requirements to support multiple operating systems • Ensures that the fundamental OS resources behave the same across multiple operating systems • Allows for host based development to avoid waiting for target tools and hardware Cross-OS Development Platform Contents: > Application Common Operating Environment (AppCOE): An eclipse based IDE for development of C/C++ applications > Cross-OS Development Platform Interface(s) • OS Abstractor™ API • Linux®/POSIX API • micro-ITRON® API > OS Abstractor Target Specific Module for the target OS > Library Package Generator • Full source code libraries for the Cross-OS Development Platform Interface(s) and OS Abstractor Target Specific Module for your target platform • Sample demo applications • Project build files for supported tools and IDEs for your target environment > Optimized Target Code Generator • Generates the Cross-OS Development Platform Interface(s) and OS Abstractor Target Specific Module source code, specifically optimized for your application and target environment • Creates project files for your target IDE • Includes the system settings you chose in the GUI-based Wizard > OS Simulator for your chosen Cross-OS Development Platform Interface(s) for host development/simulation > Profiler to view performance data regarding your application and Cross-OS Development Platform Interface(s) for your target
- 2. STEP ONE • Choose an option Option One Optimized Code Generation Develop application using AppCOE with gcc x86 on Linux or Windows host STEP TWO Option Two Full Source Package Generation Develop application using your target IDE Linker Configure target OS, Profiler, Interface Optimizer and system settings Native compiler Generate source package from AppCOE and perform manual configuration Your application executable Generate code for target OS • Cross-OS Interface objects/libraries • Application objects/libraries Output: Download/run on your target OS • Unmodified application source • Cross-OS Interface source Output: Generated Profiler data (optional) Continue to S T E P T W O View data using AppCOE Profiler Native compiler • Cross-OS Interface objects/libraries • Application objects/libraries Output: Continue to S T E P T W O Optimized Code Generation: Option 1 provided GNU tools for x86 • Perform your development work on an Eclipse-based Windows or Linux host machine with • Generate optimized OS Abstractor Interface(s) code for your target, specific to your application • Generate project files for your target IDE/tools environment • Enable target profiling of the OS Abstractor Interface(s) and of the application functions to collect valuable performance data and generate comparative performance reports • Selectively optimize each OS Abstractor Interface(s) function for performance based on its usage in your application • Automatically generate initialization & configuration code based on the settings you chose in the GUI-based wizard Full Source Package Generation: Option 2 • Use with your preferred IDE/tools instead of the provided AppCOE Eclipse-based environment • Provides the Cross-OS Development Platform in a source code library format which contains all the Interface functions for a specific target OS • Requires manual configuration and initialization instead of using the AppCOE GUI-based wizard
- 3. TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS Includes a Process Feature: • Develop your application as a single or across multiple processes utilizing the user shared region provided for your global variables • Create new processes by compiling the application separately or by launching it from your main application • Provides software-based process features, even if the underlying target OS does not offer support • Applications can pre-allocate heap memory during process creation. Can also set maximum limits regarding the amount of heap memory each application can use to prevent applications from using up all of the system memory and impacting other applications API Flexibility: • Use one or more of the Cross-OS Development Platform Interface(s) • Cross-OS Development Interface(s) can also be used within a single or across multiple applications Thread Pooling: • Applications can pool threads to increase platform robustness and performance by eliminating the overhead associated with actual task creation and task deletion at run-time Mission Critical Features: Highly Scalable: • Applications have the ability to asynchronously recover from fatal software errors through a soft reset by rolling the stack back to the start of the application • The AppCOE GUI-based wizard reads your application to custom generate optimized OS Abstractor Interface code that is specific to your application resulting in increased performance and reduction of memory footprint Target Hardware Independence: In-House OS Support • Products support any target hardware supported by your target OS architecture, including 32/64 bit & SMP/UP architectures • Cross-OS Development Platform can be easily extended to support your in-house OS Cross-OS Development Platform Interface API Coverage & Target OS Support Android® eCOS® Linux® LynxOS® LynxOS 178 LynxOS SE® micro ITRON® Freescale MQX® NetBSD® Nucleus® QNX Neutrino RTOS® RT Linux® Solaris® ThreadX® uC/OS III® Unix® VxWorks® Windows® In-house OS Please refer to the latest release notes for the API coverage here: http://www.mapusoft.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/Release_Notes.pdf Related Links • A free evaluation can be downloaded here: http://mapusoft.com/downloads/ • You can contact MapuSoft to request a license key for evaluation here: http://mapusoft.com/contact • User manuals & technical documentation can be found here: http://mapusoft.com/products/techdata/ • For any technical or sales questions please submit a ticket at the MapuSoft support site here: http://mapusoft.com/support/ ©2013 MapuSoft Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Material content is subject to change. OS Changer, OS Abstractor, AppCOE, Cross-OS, Cross-OS Hypervisor, OS Simulator, Linux OK, OS Version UpKit, Ada-C/C++ Changer and MapuSoft are registered trademarks of MapuSoft Technologies, Inc. Eclipse is a registered trademark of the Eclipse Foundation. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. www.mapusoft.com 1.877.MAPUSOFT