Express Logic Introduces PrismX™ for Graphics Development in Consumer, Industrial and Medical Devices
Express Logic announces PrismX, an integration of ThreadX with Blue Water Embedded's Prism GUI development solution. Targeting consumer, medical and
industrial markets, PrismX delivers advanced GUI capabilities optimized for resource-constrained devices.

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ThreadX® RTOS Deployments Soar to Over 750 Million Led by Wireless SoC Applications
Express Logic has now deployed 750 million units of ThreadX, primarily in wireless networking SoC applications. Royalty-free licensing and high reliability has won ThreadX first in high-volume products in consumer and industrial markets from printers and wireless networking to life-saving medical devices.

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Express Logic Announces Safety-Critical Certification Pack™ for ThreadX® RTOS for RTCA DO-178B and FDA 510(k)
Express Logic releases a turnkey Safety-Critical Certification Pack for medical, aerospace and industrial software for ThreadX at a time when application certification requirements are on the rise. With this solution, manufacturers can rest assured that their application RTOS will meet certification requirements for their standard, platform and tools.

ThreadX® RTOS Makes Multicore Development Easier With Real-Time SMP Support for MIPS32® 1004K™ CPS
Express Logic ThreadX goes multicore with ThreadX/SMP for the MIPS32 1004K CPS. Its Real-Time SMP technology uses same code for single and multicore versions, automatically load balances, ensuring increased performance without increased programming complexity.

Express Logic Simplifies Multicore Application Development with New TraceX/MC™
Express Logic delivers a TraceX/MC, a graphical real-time event analyzer, for multicore applications. TraceX/MC pinpoints the timing of system events like interrupts and context switches for each core, enabling developers to identify problems more easily.

Express Logic’s NetX Duo™ IPv6 TCP/IP Stack Passes IPv6 Ready Logo Testing
Express Logic’s NetX Duo, a dual IPv4/IPv6 stack, passes IPv6-Ready Logo testing. The IPv6 Forum requires rigorous conformance and interoperability testing to ensure confidence that IPv6 is available and ready to be used.

Express Logic’s NetX™ Achieves Top Transfer Speed on Xilinx MicroBlaze
Express Logic’s NetX TCP/IP networking stack delivers the highest reported network packet throughput measured using Iperf Transmit and Receive performance tests. Using the MicroBlaze platform, NetX offers the fastest TCP/IP stack currently available for embedded applications.

Express Logic Announces Safety-Critical Certification Pack™ for ThreadX® RTOS for IEC-61508, EUROCAE ED-12B, and Related European Safety Standards
Express Logic delivers turnkey Safety-Critical Certification Packs for European industrial, medical, transportation, rail, automotive and aerospace safety and reliability standards that eliminate months of verification and validation compliance effort.

Express Logic’s BenchX® IDE Supports Lauterbach’s TRACE32® Debugger
Express Logic’s BenchX, an embedded Eclipse-based IDE, and Lauterbach’s TRACE32 Debugger have been integrated, bringing TRACE32 to an Eclipse environment. This first integration is geared for ARM processors.

Express Logic Announces ThreadX® RTOS Support for Renesas SH7216 Series Microcontrollers
Express Logic now supports Renesas Technology’s SH-2A core-based SH7216, an integrated connectivity chip. The ThreadX RTOS maximizes the MCU’s real-time control needs while NetX & USBX supports the chip’s connectivity needs.

Express Logic and IAR Systems team up to deliver development solutions for commercial applications in consumer, medical, and industrial devices
Targeting consumer, medical and industrial devices, Express Logic and IAR have integrated ThreadX and Embedded Workbench IDE at the source code level. Thanks to kernel awareness, developers gain views of all threads and ability to set breakpoints.

Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS Powers Wincor Nixdorf Line of Reverse Vending Machines
Express Logic’s ThreadX powers Wincor-Nixdorf’s reverse vending machines, identifying the recyclable containers and posting receipts to the POS system before compacting the containers. Thanks to this solution, customers enjoy a more efficient, streamlined recycling experience while retailers avoid inventory discrepancies.

Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS Selected for Avidyne Digital Flight Control System
Express Logic’s ThreadX powers Avidyne’s new DFC90 Digital Flight Control System for Cirrus SR20 and SR22 aircraft. This ThreadX-based system raises the bar in flight precision and safety, including features such as attitude-based flight control, overrides which level, prevent stalls and overspeed. With all documentation and testing complete, Avidyne expects DO-178B certification by mid-2010.

Express Logic and Real Time Logic Team to Enable Remote Device Management
Express Logic has thrown its ThreadX and NetX TCP/IP together with Real-Time Logic’s popular Barracuda Embedded Web Server to get a small footprint solution ideal for remote connected devices. The Barracuda solution helps developers create embedded graphical applications for remote management and supervision of the kinds of connected devices becoming common in medical, industrial, military and consumer applications.

Express Logic’s StackX™ Selected Best of Show by eg3.com for ESC 2009
Express Logic won eg3.com’s Best of Show award for its new StackX development tool announced at this year’s Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Jose. McDonald awarded Best of Show because StackX provides comprehensive analysis of worst case stack usage ensuring no memory is wasted.

Express Logic Introduces StackX™ to Enable Developers to Avoid Stack Overflow in Embedded Systems
Express Logic’s StackX is a new development tool that avoids the stack overflow problems that traditionally plagued embedded systems corrupting other system memory and causing crashes. StackX performs comprehensive analysis of an application at the executable code level, computing the worst-case stack usage the application can experience, enabling developers to correctly allocate memory instead of making conventional judgments to prevent stack overflow.

Express Logic Upgrades TraceX® Graphical Tool for Real-Time System Event Analysis
Express Logic’s TraceX® V5, a graphical event analysis tool for real-time systems, lets developers clearly see system events like messages, interrupts and context switches that standard debugging tools don’t reveal along with both deterministic and undeterministic priority inversions. The ability to study these events, pinpointing their occurrence in the overall system, enables developers to find unexpected behavior and investigate code in detail.

Express Logic Lands Top Time-To-Market Ranking in Latest EMF Developer Survey
The 2008 EMF study again shows that developers using ThreadX complete their projects on-time or ahead of schedule over 76% of the time, as opposed to the industry average of 56.1%. Not coincidentally, ThreadX total number of product deployments now exceeds 600 million units. Thanks to its royalty-free licensing model, Express Logic's ThreadX has been used in millions of high-volume products across multiple consumer and industrial markets.

Express Logic’s BenchX wins Embedded World AWARD for Best in Tools
Express Logic’s BenchX won the highly prestigious Embedded World AWARD in the tools category. This award pays tribute to especially innovative products or developments that are unique and future-orientated. Notably, this is the third prize that BenchX has secured!

Express Logic’s ThreadX® 5.2 Delivers Increased Speed, Reduced Footprint and Unmatched Visibility
Express Logic’s ThreadX 5.2 brings more speed and smaller footprint to embedded development. New capabilities such as dynamic event filtering, expanded event tracing, and significant memory reduction extend ThreadX’s ease of use even further.

New Textbook Explains Real-Time Programming of MIPS® Processors
Express Logic and MIPS Technologies announce Real-Time Embedded Multithreading: Using ThreadX and MIPS by Edward L. Lamie, PhD, professor emeritus and former CS Chair at California State University, Stanislaus. The textbook introduces real-time, embedded programming, offering sample code and the resources needed to get a system up and running.

Express Logic’s NetX TCP/IP Stack Achieves 8.5 Gbps in Sony Multicore Network Throughput Benchmarks
Sony's technical paper "Network Processing on an SPE Core in Cell Broadband Engine" presented at the 16th IEEE Symposium, describes Sony's development of a high-performance network. Sony reports excellent results from Express Logic's NetX TCP/IP stack used on the Cell BE multicore processor. 

Express Logic and Virtutech Help Develop Applications in Mixed OS Environments
Express Logic has teamed with Virtutech to create a virtual system for the Renesas SH-4A superscalar processor that enables software modeling of applications without the hardware. Customers can develop applications on their desktop PC that will run on hardware when it becomes available.

Express Logic and PolyCore Software First to Announce Commercial RTOS Integration of Multicore Association’s MCAPI Communications API
Express Logic and Renesas wow Renesas DevCon with a comprehensive reference design for media players. Using Renesas’ SuperH SH-2A MCU and Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS, the demo accesses and displays media from USB flash drives, SD memory cards, etc.—providing system developers with all the short cuts needed for devices that display stored images and/or play audio files.

Express Logic and PolyCore Software First to Announce Commercial RTOS Integration of Multicore Association’s MCAPI Communications API
Express Logic and PolyCore are first out of the gate with tools offering intercore communication for multicore systems that adopts the new Multicore Association MCAPI standard. The Poly-Messenger/ThreadX combination offers interthread communication within a single processor, multiple processors or a multicore system.

Express Logic to Sponsor Renesas Technology’s U.S. Developers’ Conference
Express Logic is sponsoring the Renesas Developers’ Conference, which focuses on providing design ideas for applications in consumer, industrial, automotive and communication markets. The conference takes place in San Diego from October 13-15. Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS has been ported to the Renesas SuperH processor family and Renesas has integrated RTOS-aware debugging into its Embedded Workbench development tools.

Express Logic Unveils TraceX™ 3.1 with New Features for System Analysis
Express Logic today released the latest version of TraceX™V3.1, a system event analysis tool that enables embedded developers to visualize and better understand the behavior of their real-time systems. TraceX 3.1 adds new summary and profiling features that further assist developers in understanding the behavior and performance of their real-time system.