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16 years ago

Anyone know about ERIKA Enterprise RTOS?

I am recently working on a multiprocessor project. and find ERIKA Enterprise does the same thing. It helps to build a multiprocessor project, I don't know whether it is supportive for ucl...
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16 years ago

The NIOS uCLinux does not support SMP (Symmetrical Multi Processor i.e. multiple processors are managed by the OS).

But you can define multiple processors in the FPGA and have one of them run uCLinux, while the other(s) do dedicated realtime work, e.g. in a "closed loop" application.

I suppose in most applications this makes more sense, anyway.

-Michael