WHIS: small-footprint RTOS supports Intel's next gen data center platforms

WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) is excited to announce the launch of OpenRTOS IE, a powerful, small footprint RTOS and IE Driver solution for the Intel Innovation Engine (IE). OpenRTOS IE allows systems builders to develop novel functionality upon Intel server platforms quickly and efficiently, helping to create product differentiation within the server market.

The Innovation Engine is a small Intel architecture processor and I/O sub-system embedded into Intel’s next generations of Server Platforms. The Intel IE enables system builders to create their own unique, differentiating firmware for the server, storage and networking markets. Some possible usages include a lightweight BMC providing basic manageability and reduce overall system cost, or to improve server performance by offloading BIOS and BMC routines to the IE.

OpenRTOS IE is a fast, lightweight, small footprint Real Time Operating System complete with a comprehensive set of IE device drivers. OpenRTOS is the smallest RTOS option enabled for the Intel IE, with the RTOS requiring less that 10Kbytes and the entire RTOS and IE driver solution less than 100Kbytes, maximizing the amount of memory available for the system builder’s application code.

OpenRTOS IE offers a trusted foundation for system builders to quickly and efficiently build their applications upon. OpenRTOS IE provides an easy to use API, comprehensive documentation, and a working ‘out of the box’ demonstration application, all designed to help development engineers gain a better understanding of Intel IE. This allows creation of effective, robust designs in a short time period with minimum IE memory usage.

WHIS can provide OpenRTOS IE customization and consultancy services, as well as OpenRTOS IE training courses. Advance, feature rich networking, USB and file storage components for Intel IE are also available from WHIS, supplied fully integrated with the IE solution.