Support for Key Features

This topic outlines support for key eRTOS features.

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General / System

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes

Dedicated Mode (up to 63 processors for eRTOS)

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Deterministic memory allocation

 eRTOS 1.0

The eRTOS memory configuration contains multiple allocation spaces (MSpaces).

Basic Registry support

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Boot loader configurations

eRTOS 1.0

 

Logic to limit SMI activity from the BIOS

eRTOS 1.0

 

x2APIC support

eRTOS 1.0

 

FAT32 file system support

 eRTOS 1.0

Basic support through an AHCI SATA block driver.

TSC frequency calibration and synchronization on SMP systems

 eRTOS 1.0

 

CAT and MBA processor features

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Applications and Dynamic Linked Libraries support

eRTOS 1.0

 

USB Capabilities

eRTOS 1.0

eRTOS USB provides USB capabilities through a USB Host Stack that can be optionally loaded when the eRTOS system boots.

Inter Process Communication (IPC)

eRTOS 1.0

 

Subsystem Configuration and Optimization

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes
HAL (RTHAL) configuration eRTOS 1.0 Through a grub.cfg configuration file. See Configuring the Real-Time HAL.
Kernel (RTKernel) configuration eRTOS 1.0 Through an RtKrnlConfig.ini configuration file. See Configuring the Real-Time Kernel.

Application Development

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes

Application and RTDLL templates

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Structured Exception Handling (SEH)

 eRTOS 1.0

Enabled and disabled globally, not by feature.

Floating Point

 eRTOS 1.0

 

MMX, SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4

 eRTOS 1.0

 

AVX

 eRTOS 1.0

Version 512

Microsoft C Runtime

 eRTOS 1.0

eRTOS supports a subset of the C Runtime library.

Hardware Interrupts thread level - IST handling

eRTOS 1.0
  • Line-based interrupts (IRQ)
  • Message-based interrupts (MSI/MSI-X)
  • Multi-vector interrupts (MSI/MSI-X)

Application Debugging

For the features listed below, support is dependent on Visual Studio version compatibility with eRTOS. See Visual Studio Compatibility.

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes

Remote debugging

eRTOS 1.0

eRTOS 1.0 supports remote attach only.

Tools and Utilities

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes

Activate eRTOS SDK

eRTOS 1.0

See Using MaxRTActivationUtil.exe.

Tools to start/stop processes

 eRTOS 1.0 See Run.

Schedule auto-start processes

 eRTOS 1.0 See Running User-Developed Real-Time Applications.

Console to display process output

 eRTOS 1.0 See eRTOS Console.

TCP/IP Stack Utilities

 

Use these tools to diagnose and/or configure network connections to other computers:

  • RtArp displays and modifies the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by the address resolution protocol (ARP).
  • RtIpConfig displays the local computer’s current network configuration.
  • RtPing sends ICMP Echo or ICMPv6 Echo request messages to assist you in performing network diagnostics and to test the ability to reach a specific destination.
  • RtRoute displays and manipulates network routing tables.

Network Support

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes

Network configuration

eRTOS 1.0

Through the eRTOS RtConfig.rtreg file. See configuring network behavior and performance.

Layer 2 interface

 eRTOS 1.0

Provided by the Network Link Layer (NL2) component.

Timestamping

 eRTOS 1.0

 

IPv4

 eRTOS 1.0

 

IPv6

 eRTOS 1.0

 

UDP

 eRTOS 1.0

 

TCP

 eRTOS 1.0

 

ICMPv4

 eRTOS 1.0

 

ICMPv6

 eRTOS 1.0

 

ARP

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Ethernet

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Multicast

 eRTOS 1.0

Promiscuous multicast only

Raw Sockets

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Jumbo Packets

 eRTOS 1.0

Support is driver dependent.

MAC Layer Filter (Single Layer)

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Basic Winsock 2.0

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Multi-Homing

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Network Tools

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Network Devices

Feature

Minimum supported version

Notes

Line-based Interrupts

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Message-based & Extended Message-based Interrupts

 eRTOS 1.0

 

Multiple Vector Interrupt Support for MSI-X

 eRTOS 1.0

 

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