ARM 7 and ARM 9 have been in the field for a number of years. They have been the work horses of the embedded microcontroller and low end microprocessor world with thousands of applications built around them. Generally though, unless coupled with large quantities of memory in the case of ARM 9, they have not had the option of running a tiny tiny embedded Linux - until now!
The 32 bit Unison RTOS offers a tiny tiny Linux compatible solution which is ideal for the ARM 9 architecture. ARM 9's relatively high performance without an MMU makes it a clear target for Unison. The high performance of Unison offers excellent results on ARM 9 because of the very small and fast nature of the POSIX kernel.
ARM 9 is not at the beginning of its life today and as such it is not priority port of Unison today. If you would like to help accelerate this port, please tell us here.
The extensive features of Unison can easily be coupled with the power and pricing of the ARM 7 to provide great solutions for a broad set of problems. These solutions might include:
- video games
- routers
- communication systems
- set top boxes
- telematics
- GPS
- lighting control
- automotive subsystems
- higher performance motor control
- and many more ARM 9 applications
Unison - the tiny tiny Linux compatable solution as a broad set of I/O libraries that may be incorporated into solutions. This I/O set includes the following:
- serial I/O
- synchronous serial
- multimedia file system
- flash file capabilities
- TCP
- UDP
- RPC, XDR, and NFS
- tftp
- httpd
- graphics
- CAN
- LIT
- and much more...
