We are thrilled to announce that X Window System has been compiled and launched on Phoenix-RTOS 🙂
Phoenix-RTOS operating system – is a scalable, open-source operating
system for Internet of Things devices. The project was initiated at the Warsaw University of Technology in 2001. The system has been widely implemented in the energy sector, in many modern IoT devices such as smart gas meters, smart energy meters and data concentrators.
The Phoenix-RTOS operating system is based on a microkernel written from scratch and supports many hardware architectures – ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, ARM Cortex-R, Intel x86, RISC-V, LEON3FT, NOEL and microcontrollers and microprocessors based on them.
Phoenix-RTOS has several special features that distinguish it from existing operating systems for embedded applications:
– The system allows for development of user applications for IoT devices, making them edge devices (so-called Edge-IoT). Applications are created in the same way as for general-purpose operating systems and can be executed on devices while they are running;
– Phoenix-RTOS is highly scalable, which means that it supports both small microcontrollers with limited resources and advanced computer systems based on multiple processors and equipped with gigabytes of RAM (work has also begun on supporting massively parallel multicomputers,
the so-called MPP);
– The operating system supports many different application environments (e.g. POSIX, APEX), which allows it to be used in many different industry sectors;
– The system architecture (microkernel and message passing) allows for a compact and well structured implementation, thanks to which it is possible to meet the requirements of safety assurance software development methodologies required in aerospace (DO-178C), space (ECSS) and other critical applications;