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Description
The MQX real-time operating system (RTOS) delivers excellent real-time capabilities while maintaining a compact and customizable footprint. This RTOS is seamlessly integrated with NXP's 32-bit MCUs and MPUs and comes with essential device drivers commonly utilized in embedded applications. Designed with a contemporary, component-oriented microkernel architecture, the MQX RTOS allows engineers to tailor features, size, and performance by selectively integrating components, thus adhering to the stringent memory limitations typical of embedded systems. Remarkably, it can be set up to use as little as 8 KB of ROM and 2.5 KB of RAM on the Arm Cortex M4, accommodating the kernel, two task applications, one lightweight semaphore, the interrupt stack, queues, and the memory manager. This configuration ensures a complete RTOS core is available while offering additional optional services as needed. By linking components only when required, the system effectively avoids unnecessary memory bloat from unused functions. Moreover, key components are offered in both standard and lightweight configurations, providing further flexibility regarding size, RAM and ROM usage, and performance options, making it a versatile choice for various applications.
Description
The Keil RTX is a deterministic, royalty-free real-time operating system tailored for ARM and Cortex-M devices, enabling the development of applications that can handle multiple tasks concurrently, resulting in more organized and maintainable code. This RTOS comes with source code, allowing for greater flexibility in programming. While it is feasible to implement real-time applications without an RTOS by using a Super-loop to run one or more functions, doing so can lead to various challenges related to scheduling, maintenance, and timing, all of which are efficiently managed by the Keil RTX. For those interested in understanding the benefits of an RTOS compared to a Super-loop approach, a detailed comparison highlights the advantages of adopting an RTOS. Additionally, Keil RTX offers high-speed real-time operations with minimal interrupt latency and a compact footprint suitable for resource-limited systems. It supports an unlimited number of tasks, each capable of having up to 254 levels of priority, as well as an infinite number of mailboxes, semaphores, mutexes, and timers, making it an ideal choice for applications requiring multithreading and thread-safe functionality. Overall, the Keil RTX provides developers with a powerful toolset for creating efficient and robust real-time applications.
API Access
Has API
API Access
Has API
Integrations
Golioth
Green Hills Optimizing Compilers
Keil MDK
NetsPresso
QuarkLink
Sibros
TimeMachine
µVision IDE
Integrations
Golioth
Green Hills Optimizing Compilers
Keil MDK
NetsPresso
QuarkLink
Sibros
TimeMachine
µVision IDE
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Free Trial
Free Version
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Free Trial
Free Version
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Deployment
Web-Based
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iPhone App
iPad App
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Windows
Mac
Linux
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Customer Support
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Online Support
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Vendor Details
Company Name
NXP
Founded
2006
Country
Netherlands
Website
www.nxp.com/design/software/embedded-software/mqx-software-solutions/mqx-real-time-operating-system-rtos:MQXRTOS
Vendor Details
Company Name
Arm
Founded
2005
Country
United States
Website
www.keil.com/arm/rl-arm/kernel.asp