OpenRTOS Cortus collaboration speeds app development in low power MCUs

David Brook of Wittenstein said the release of Open and FreeRTOS for this specialised core was driven by customer demand and will be a real benefit to developers using this architecture for low power applications.

OpenRTOS is a commercially supported real-time operating system based on FreeRTOS. Earlier this month it was reported that FreeRTOS continued to make significant advances into commercial applications when it topped an industry survey of engineers, who stated they would use the kernel in 2010.

The small, efficient kernel uses less than 10k flash and a few hundred bytes of RAM on the Cortus APS3.

Mike Chapman, CEO of Cortus, said We are delighted that our customers now have access to one of the most popular embedded operating systems for their developments.