= MutekA =

== General presentation ==

MutekA is a kernel-mode lightweight operating system for Multiprocessor System on a Chip.
It is build from scratch targeting the POSIX thread API.

MutekA is build on top of an Hardware Abstraction Layer that limits the porting
effort.
It currently targets the following architectures:
  * ARM7 (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2006/RR2006-12.pdf)
  * Micro-Blaze, tested on a Spartan3 platform (3 processors, Motion-JPEG application)
  * Sparc V8, MPSoC architecture build with !SoCLib

and comes in two flavors:
  * SMP (Symmetric multiprocessing), in which the threads share the processor pool in a fair manner, first
    come first served.
  * DS (Distributed Scheduling), in which a task is assigned to a processor at creation time.

The libraries currently available are :
 * Native POSIX Threads (libpthread)
 * Standard C library (libc)  
 * Process Network Communication (libcomm)

The MutekA kernel is currently being restructured :
 * code clean up
 * peripheral accesses through drivers
 * modularity