| | 1 | = MutekA = |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | == General presentation == |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | MutekA is a kernel-mode lightweight operating system for Multiprocessor System on a Chip. |
| | 6 | It is build from scratch targeting the POSIX thread API. |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | MutekA is build on top of an Hardware Abstraction Layer that limits the porting |
| | 9 | effort. |
| | 10 | It currently targets the following architectures: |
| | 11 | * ARM7 (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2006/RR2006-12.pdf) |
| | 12 | * Micro-Blaze, tested on a Spartan3 platform (3 processors, Motion-JPEG application) |
| | 13 | * Sparc V8, MPSoC architecture build with !SoCLib |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | and comes in two flavors: |
| | 16 | * SMP (Symmetric multiprocessing), in which the threads share the processor pool in a fair manner, first |
| | 17 | come first served. |
| | 18 | * DS (Distributed Scheduling), in which a task is assigned to a processor at creation time. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | The libraries currently available are : |
| | 21 | * Native POSIX Threads (libpthread) |
| | 22 | * Standard C library (libc) |
| | 23 | * Process Network Communication (libcomm) |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | The MutekA kernel is currently being restructured : |
| | 26 | * code clean up |
| | 27 | * peripheral accesses through drivers |
| | 28 | * modularity |
