Hi all, we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to be used in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleus working in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, Integrity. Does anyone know any example? Also, does anyone know any site or article where an independet analisys of Nucleus appears?? Thanks a lot, Daniel
Nucleus PLUS
Started by ●April 14, 2004
Reply by ●April 14, 20042004-04-14
In article <Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es>, "Daniel Navarro" <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote:> we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to be used > in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The > only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleus working > in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at > all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, > Integrity. Does anyone know any example? Also, does anyone know any site or > article where an independet analisys of Nucleus appears??Our device is "popular" but I can't talk about what it does. We've had good experience with Nucleus PLUS. It's nice to have sources and the code, although very simple C, is quite readable and well factored. I say, go for it.
Reply by ●April 14, 20042004-04-14
bell expressVue 2700 receivers use it. Pat "Daniel Navarro" <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es...> Hi all, > > we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to beused> in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The > only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleusworking> in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at > all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, > Integrity. Does anyone know any example? > > Also, does anyone know any site or article where an independet analisys of > Nucleus appears?? > > Thanks a lot, > Daniel > >
Reply by ●April 14, 20042004-04-14
"Daniel Navarro" <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es...> Hi all, > > we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to beused> in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The > only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleusworking> in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at > all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, > Integrity. Does anyone know any example?If I were to tell you that three (to my personal knowledge) of the top six (by sales) manufactures of GSM handsets do, or have in the past, used Nucleus as the RTOS in their phones..... would this help? tim> > Also, does anyone know any site or article where an independet analisys of > Nucleus appears?? > > Thanks a lot, > Daniel > >
Reply by ●April 15, 20042004-04-15
> >we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to be used >in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The >only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleus workingAnother point against: It is a share memory kernel. The top two cellular phone companies use a direct message passing kernel as base RTOS. --- 42Bastian Do not email to bastian42@yahoo.com, it's a spam-only account :-) Use <same-name>@epost.de instead !
Reply by ●April 16, 20042004-04-16
"Mark A. Odell" <odellmark@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c5jsc0$2g3m8$1@ID-74514.news.uni-berlin.de>...> In article <Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es>, "Daniel Navarro" > <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to be used > > in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The > > only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleus working > > in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at > > all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, > > Integrity. Does anyone know any example? Also, does anyone know any site or > > article where an independet analisys of Nucleus appears?? > > Our device is "popular" but I can't talk about what it does. We've had good > experience with Nucleus PLUS. It's nice to have sources and the code, although > very simple C, is quite readable and well factored. I say, go for it.Are the sources of Nucleus PLUS available ? Are the APIs available. Basically i am trying link it with a debugger? For accomplishing this is it feasible to start of with Nucleus PLUS and what information are needed and are they readily available?
Reply by ●April 16, 20042004-04-16
In article <dc277f58.0404152038.5187d2e0@posting.google.com>, a_410_99 @indiatimes.com says...> "Mark A. Odell" <odellmark@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c5jsc0$2g3m8$1@ID-74514.news.uni-berlin.de>... > > In article <Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es>, "Daniel Navarro" > > <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to be used > > > in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The > > > only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleus working > > > in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at > > > all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, > > > Integrity. Does anyone know any example? Also, does anyone know any site or > > > article where an independet analisys of Nucleus appears?? > > > > Our device is "popular" but I can't talk about what it does. We've had good > > experience with Nucleus PLUS. It's nice to have sources and the code, although > > very simple C, is quite readable and well factored. I say, go for it. > > Are the sources of Nucleus PLUS available ? Are the APIs available. > Basically i am trying link it with a debugger? For accomplishing this > is it feasible to start of with Nucleus PLUS and what information are > needed and are they readily available?Nucleus Plus is NOT open-source. You purchase a per-product license (no royalties), and they give you the source. Depending on the debugger, Accelerated Technology/Mentor Graphics, who owns Nucleus, can supply a kernel-awareness DLL for it at reasonable cost. If you are a developing a debugger or other tool chain, you would likely have to enter into a license agreement with Accelerated for use of their information in your product. --Gene
Reply by ●April 16, 20042004-04-16
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:58:33 GMT, "Daniel Navarro" <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote:>Hi all, > >we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to be used >in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The >only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleus working >in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at >all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, >Integrity. Does anyone know any example? > >Also, does anyone know any site or article where an independet analisys of >Nucleus appears?? > >Thanks a lot, >Daniel > >We use Nucleus Plus in 3 of our products and they're medical applications. I always found ATI (or Mentor now) very responsive & very good after sales service. Basically the factors that would sway your decision of using one RTOS over another are: 1. Product Support 2. Tools support, that is how well does the RTOS work with the chosen Compiler, emulator, simulator, database, etc. 3. Ancillary support, such as TCP/IP, Smart Card, Filesystems -- depands what you need. 4. Company stability -- is it going to be there 1 year down the line. Always difficult to predict -- we got bitten by pSOS just before it was taken over by WindRiver. Added to that with Nucleus Plus a) Source is provided -- just in case they do go down the toilet b) No royalties Ken +====================================+ I hate junk email. Please direct any genuine email to: kenlee at hotpop.com
Reply by ●April 16, 20042004-04-16
Mark A. Odell wrote:> In article <Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es>, "Daniel > Navarro" <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to >> be used in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using >> OMAP5910). The only point against it is we don't know too many >> examples of Nucleus working in 'popular' devices/products and, >> since we have no experience in RTOS at all, our bosses doesn't trust >> Nucleus means against others like OSE, Integrity. Does anyone know >> any example? Also, does anyone know any site or article where an >> independet analisys of Nucleus appears?? > > Our device is "popular" but I can't talk about what it does. We've > had good experience with Nucleus PLUS. It's nice to have sources and > the code, although very simple C, is quite readable and well > factored. I say, go for it.Things may have changed in the past year but when I last looked there were some issues with Nucleus that you might be interested in: 1) No 'C' Run-Time-Libray Nucleus does not come with any 'C' RTL, nor did the port we had even initialise ARM's run-time libray. It was pretty much a bare-bones 'C' API. 2) Messy C++ Because Nucleus doesn't come with a CRTL, multi-threaded or otherwise; this means that global and static objects don't get constructed. There is a set of gruesome macros that come with the PLUS package that need adding to class declarations and definitions... but then you end-up with something highly non-portable. 3) Support The cost of the OS is, in my opinion, very high for what you get. In addition, the support is also expensive, although good... until the term expires. Overall, I found the sources to be a poor reference, making extensive use of preprocessor conditional blocks to support different platforms, cryptically named data and functions, macros a plenty, unsafe depeciated 'C' style strings. ATI claim that Nucleus is highly portable, but this is actually acheived at some cost; you will not be able to build with the highest compiler warning level without a lot of warnings. If you don't want to use C++, templates and standard libraries and are happy with plain old 'C' and everything in a single global namespace, you might like it.
Reply by ●April 17, 20042004-04-17
At my previous company, we developed GSM/GPRS chipsets and we used Nucleus for the RTOS. --Anthony "Daniel Navarro" <dani_dnm_zgzREMOVE_THIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Z4efc.4514197$uj6.14912938@telenews.teleline.es...> Hi all, > > we are on the point of taking the decision of buying Nucleus PLUS to beused> in a new device (quite similar to a mobile phone and using OMAP5910). The > only point against it is we don't know too many examples of Nucleusworking> in 'popular' devices/products and, since we have no experience in RTOS at > all, our bosses doesn't trust Nucleus means against others like OSE, > Integrity. Does anyone know any example? > > Also, does anyone know any site or article where an independet analisys of > Nucleus appears?? > > Thanks a lot, > Daniel > >