Talon DSP RTOS
Encyclopedia
Talon DSP RTOS is a commercial POSIX
-compliant Unix-like
real-time operating system
, aimed primarily at the DSP
market.
-compliant real time operating system and software platform for designing and implementing application software for Texas Instruments TMS320
digital signal processors (DSP).
POSIX
POSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
-compliant Unix-like
Unix-like
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
real-time operating system
Real-time operating system
A real-time operating system is an operating system intended to serve real-time application requests.A key characteristic of a RTOS is the level of its consistency concerning the amount of time it takes to accept and complete an application's task; the variability is jitter...
, aimed primarily at the DSP
Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the fast operational needs of digital signal processing.-Typical characteristics:...
market.
Description
The TALON OS is a POSIXPOSIX
POSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
-compliant real time operating system and software platform for designing and implementing application software for Texas Instruments TMS320
Texas Instruments TMS320
Texas Instruments TMS320 is a blanket name for a series of digital signal processors from Texas Instruments. It was introduced on April 8, 1983 through the TMS32010 processor, which was then the fastest DSP on the market....
digital signal processors (DSP).
Features
- Royalty Free
- Includes full source codeSource codeIn computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
- Optimized for each TI DSP family
- Real-Time multithreaded pre-emptive microkernel
- Host to target communication utilities
- Dynamic shared library allocation
- Three completely configurable file systemFile systemA file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the...
s - Small OS footprint
- Completely thread safe run-time libraries
- POSIXPOSIXPOSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
compliant