Wind River pSOSystem

At the time of its release, pSOSystem 3 served as a modular, high-performance, memory-protected RTOS designed specifically for embedded microprocessors, providing a complete multitasking environment and offering performance, reliability, and ease-of-use on both custom and commercial hardware.

pSOSystem 3 has been used for such target applications as handheld devices, multimedia products, data communications and telecommunications, and digital imaging products.

Technical Specifications

Supported Hosts

  • Windows NT 4/2000
  • UNIX-Solaris

Supported Targets

  • Freescale/IBM PowerPC architecture family
    • Freescale/IBM PPC6xx, 7xx, 74xx
    • Freescale MPC8xx, 82xx
    • IBM PPC403
  • MIPS architecture family
    • MIPS 16, 32, R500

Features and Benefits

  • Support for a wide variety of CPUs and drivers
  • Fast, deterministic kernel
  • Memory management and protection
  • Resource monitoring
  • Exception management
  • Preemptive tasking environment
  • Reliable, as proven in more than 40 million customer devices worldwide
  • Popular board support packages (BSPs) supplied in source-code format
  • File system support includes ISO9660 (CD-ROM), MS-DOS compatible file systems, NFS, and a high-performance embedded file system
  • State-of-the-art pRISM+ 3 integrated development environment
  • Tools for developing, analyzing, and testing embedded applications
  • Simplifies navigation through legacy code and enables code reuse


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