Express Logic has released ThreadX RTOS V5.2. As well as increased speed, ThreadX V5.2 introduces new developer-friendly features, such as dynamic event filtering, expanded event trace, SMP enhancement, and a significant reduction in global memory requirements.

Based on the RTOS-independent Thread-Metric Benchmark Suite, which measures RTOS real-time performance, ThreadX V5.2 is intended to deliver faster processing speed across the board, with the best improvements noted in the area of message processing.

Previously achieving a total of 6,928,383 iterations of the Thread-Metric message processing test, ThreadX V5.2 now scores top marks with 7,853,195 iterations, a 13.3% performance increase. Other Thread-Metric scores increased from 1% to 12%, said the supplier.

Also the new release reduces Ram requirements of ThreadX to 364bytes.

V5.2 also introduces a generic SMP framework, making ThreadX more portable to new multicore environments. Currently, the ThreadX/SMP version for the MIPS 34K takes full advantage of this new SMP foundation in ThreadX V5.2.

More information: www.expresslogic.com