From BSP development to operating system implementation and everything in between, from standard implementation to fully custom development, Thales Computers is in a class by itself in embedded systems software, firmware, and middleware expertise now available in our range of turn-key systems.
Software is Driving System Costs
As embedded computer specialists, we have always understood that it is software that drives the system and that it is software that frequently represents the largest single investment in the development or upgrade of a fully integrated system for a COTS or other mission-critical application. Moreover, we have focused for many years on the complex non-portable part of software which links our end-user applications with the hardware. Without a clean-layered approach, this can become your worst nightmare. That is why, at Thales Computers, our emphasis on software development, integration, and implementation -- both internally and with third-party support -- has always been far ahead of that of our competition.
Turnkey Software For Turnkey Systems
Bridging the gap between the base COTS OS vendor offering and your need for a complete operational system, our PowerLine software suite is at the heard of our PowerMP offering to allow an &quo;out-of-the-box" experience with systems as complex as 20 multi-processor PowerPC boards in the same rack.
Leading-Edge Software Expertise
Thales Computers is the first, and still only, company to offer the advanced 2eSST protocol on VME processor boards supporting Linux, VxWorks, Integrity, and LynxOS, among other advanced operating systems. Even more recently, Thales Computers participated in a unique collaborative effort to help reach the deployment stage in the defense market with a Linux-based solution on a PowerPC platform for an advanced naval application. Our current projects include RapidIO support in all major operating systems.
Operating Systems
| VxWorks : Richest BSPs in the industry. |
| This well-known Real-Time OS from Wind River is common in defense applications, and the BSP for our single-board computers has been acclaimed for its unmatched set of features. On multiprocessor boards, as we have supported multiple copies of the RTOS in the same board for years, we are ready for your migration to the new multi-core processors. |
| INTEGRITY |
This robust RTOS solution is available on our most popular platforms. PowerEngine7 and PowerNode3 support INTEGRITY from GreenHills. |
| LynxOS: a complete offering of add-on for multi board systems. |
This Real-Time OS from
LynuxWorks has a Unix look and feel and was recently selected as the baseline for large software projects in the defense domain. Thales has extended the Lynx operating system from one to multiple processors on the same board with each processor running its own unique kernel. The shared onboard resources can be partitioned as the user desires. |
RedHat Entreprise Linux
: the only industrial solution for long term programs up to 20 years
The most promising platform for embedded computing is also the most disturbing for the software liability chain and established business models. Thales Computers has entered a hardware partner agreement with Red Hat and can now bring a unique industrial solution to deploy embedded systems in long term programs on all Intel-based hardware. The relevant Thales Computers products are certified and can be supported directly by Red Hat
ELinOS:
Thales has qualified ELinOS from Sysgo, on hardware platforms that include Thales’ VCE405 connectivity Engine, PowerEngine7 and PENTXM family.
QNX Neutrino:
PENTXM2 and PENTXM4 VME 6U Pentium SBCs support the QNX Neutrino secure partitioning real-time O.S. from QNX.
Embedded Linux:
To address the embedded linux market, Thales Computers experts support multiple embedded Linux distributions on our entire product porfolio. Linux is also our baseline for large multiprocessor systems dedicated to data and signal processing (see PowerMP).
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Other Thales Computers Software
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| PowerMP-Data |
Our implementation of MPI with zero-copy feature on all low level I/O (from VME to RapidIO through Ethernet) guarantee that you will never have to port your application software again thanks to separate topology description files. PowerMP-Data is available with our PowerMP systems. |
| PowerMP-Control |
The telecom industry with the help of silicon vendors have defined a set of control and monitoring technologies for fault tolerance in business-critical applications. PowerMP-Control is delivers a coherent software distribution of these technologies for you to offer this leading edge service with minimum cost. PowerMP-Control is implemented on all our PowerMP systems. |
| Powerline 4 LynxOS |
The complete Signal and Data processing system software offering from Thales Computers is based on a dedicated software package and associated services built on top of LynxOS. |
| Powerline 4 |
This Supervision Toolkit for High-End Data and Signal Processing Machines allow control of complex systems from a single point. |