ARM RTOS Vendors
There is a very wide range of RTOS options for the ARM. Below is a list of the ones we are aware of as at June 2004.
Real Time Operating Systems for ARM
- Accelerated Technology — Nucleus Real Time Operating System
- Axe — XTAL RTOS and Ace-TCP
- Causality Ltd. — NetBSD, free operating system based on 4.4BSD
- CMX Company — CMX-RTX Real-Time Multi-Tasking Operating System for Microprocessors and Microcomputers
- Cygnus Solutions — eCos Royality free ITRON based RTOS
- EUROS — Euros modular hardware-independent RTOS
- Quadro Systems — RTXC Real Time Operating System
- embOS a small and efficient real-time kernel, supports all common 8/16/32-bit CPUs
- IAR PowerPac another version of the embOS RTOS above.
- Enea OSE Systems — OSE Real-Time Operating Systems
- ERG KK — PrKERNEL — RTOS for ARM7TDMI
- Etas — ERCOS Real-Time Operating System
- Express Logic — ThreadX deterministic real-time operating system
- FirmWorks — Open Firmware
- Gaio Technology — G-OS, RTOS µITRON ver.3.0 based
- Green Hills Software — ThreadX — A royalty-free, technically advanced, multi-tasking RTOS
- HyperPanel — The HyperPanel OS is a streamlined, object oriented operating system that can process applications in a deterministic fashion
- Integrated Systems — pSOSystem real-time Software Development Environment
- JMI Software Systems — C Executive real-time kernel
- Kadak products Ltd — AMX RTOS supports ARM family of processor
- Linux — Linux for ARM based machines. Also see Debian-ARM, which is a distribution of Linux for ARM.
- Vita Nuova — Inferno, a small operating system for embedded systems
- µC/OS — Port of µC/OS-II Real Time Kernel to ARM processors
- Mentor Graphics — Nucleus RTOS
- Microsoft— Windows CE
- Microtec — VRTX — Real-Time Operating System
- Microware — OS-9 RTOS and Ariel Royalty-Free, Full-Source RTOS
- Motorola — FLEX OS is an open software operating environment for the wireless industry, which includes a client/server OS, development tools and applications.
- Nexus Electronics Ltd — ConiX embedded OS
- Pegasus — Nemesis operating system runs on StrongARM SA-110 based network computers
- RISCOS Ltd — RISC OS Operating System for Network Computer and Multimedia applications
- ChorusOS — Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, now open source.
- Symbian — EPOC32 Object orientated multitasking Operating System for handheld computing and other low cost ROM based applications
- US Software — MultiTask, Real Time Operating System µITRON based
- Wind River Systems — VxWorks and IxWorks RTOS