Current status and future directions of the ITRON Subproject

Author

Takada, Hiroaki ; Tamaru, Kiichiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

4-7 Dec 1996

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

21

Abstract

The ITRON Subproject is to define and promote a standard operating system specification for embedded systems. A series of ITRON real time kernel specifications has been defined and published so far. Among them, the μITRON specifications, which are designed for small scale embedded systems, have been implemented far a large number of microcontroller units (MCUs) and have been utilized in numerous applications. We describe the current status and recent results of the ITRON Subproject, after reviewing the design principles and the history of the ITRON specifications. Then, we discuss the future directions of the subproject

Keywords

formal specification; microcontrollers; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; μITRON specifications; ITRON Subproject; ITRON real time kernel specifications; ITRON specifications; MCUs; future directions; microcontroller units; small scale embedded systems; standard operating system specification; Application software; Costs; Embedded software; Embedded system; Hardware; Kernel; Personal digital assistants; Random access memory; Read only memory; Read-write memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TRON Project International Symposium, 1996. TEPS '96

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1063-6749

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7658-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRON.1996.566180

Filename

566180