Integrated Systems, Inc. Announces I2O Interface Pact
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Dave,
I'm addressing this to you in light of your previous review of the PLX I2O offerings. (I know you're busy and may not have time to respond.) I'll go back through the thread and try to post the relevant links to your in-depth analysis.
Allen, Dave, mac, and all,
Does this announcement by INTS have much significance? I'm not an embedded expert so my view of this is sketchy, but it appears that INTS is doing something with the PLX I2O products I brought to the thread's attention months ago. I'm a bit perplexed by their self-righteous chest-thumping, because I seem to recall that the PLX technology can also enable the same capabilities with WIND's products. Am I right? Here are some excerpts:
"Now, the door is wide open to developers who want to take I2O beyond the i960, and beyond rudimentary IRTOS functionality"
"While the embedded industry's previous I2O RTOS entrants have strictly supported Intel's i960 processor, the I2Op message passing interface will be made available initially on the PowerPC target; support for other pSOSystem target processors will follow. Future candidate targets may include ARM, StrongARM, MIPS, 68k, Hitachi SH, x86, ST-20, and ColdFire architectures. PCI and I2O hardware support for these processors is provided by the PLX I/O accelerator family of chips."
"And, until now, I2O RTOS support has consisted of relatively low- performance, memory-intensive, limited-functionality implementations. The availability of pSOS with the I2Op interface will provide private platform board designers with access to the widest variety of application-level functional components including networking support (TCP/IP, SNMP, STREAMS, ISDN, ATM), embedded Internet (Java, HTTP, multiple browsers, Java virtual machine), kernel components (file system, graphics, SCSI, DISI, etc.), and ISI's award-winning development environment, pRISM+." |
