RTOS / Hypervisor
It is often the case with exceptionally complex applications, such as AUTOSAR or RTOS-based, safety critical, multi-core microcontroller automotive systems, that advanced analysis techniques are required to prove functional safety.
AUTOSAR applications can be especially challenging, which is why iSYSTEM provides hardware and software that delivers insights that can be imported into 3rd party tools for timing analysis. And for more classical RTOS applications, winIDEA's plugins make it possible to visualise tasks easily for a fast overview of what is really going on.
If you have a specific embedded development challenge and are unsure if the iSYSTEM ecosystem can support it, feel free to get in touch. We’d be happy to discuss your exact needs to see if and where we can help.
RTOS Awareness
To provide further insights into the state of real-time operating systems (RTOS), winIDEA provides a range of plugins.
| Name | Supplier |
| FreeRTOS | FreeRTOS (Amazon Web Services) |
| Linux | Linux Foundation |
| OSEK/AUTOSAR (ERIKA, EB tresos, POSIX, …) |
all AUTOSAR vendors |
| PXROS-HR | HighTec |
| QNX Neutrino | QNX |
| rcX | Hilscher |
| SafeRTOS | WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems |
| Sciopta | SCIOPTA Systems |
| ThreadX | Eclipse Foundation |
| Zephyr | Zephyr Project (Linux Foundation) |
| µC/OS | Micrium (Silicon Labs) |
| L4Re | Kernkonzept |
| PikeOS | SYSGO |
If your operating system is not listed or only your target architecture is not listed under the supported architectures, please contact TASKING sales to check whether it’s being supported in the meantime or if adding the support is planned already.
Hypervisor Support
TASKING supports the following operating systems for the hypervisor:
- Kernkonzept, L4Re
- SYSGO, PikeOS
- ETAS, RTA-HVR
- Open source OP-TEE
- Open source Xen
There are several use cases to debug a hypervisor-based embedded system, mostly dependent on the system architecture itself. We are happy to share our experience in this field with you. Please get in contact with our systems engineering department.
The ETAS RTA-HVR Hypervisor & Multi RTA-OS Profiling Application Note describes how to use winIDEA IDE for Multi-OS timing analysis (profiling) using the ETAS Lightweight Hypervisor, RTA-HVR.
The master core, which is operational after reset, executes a standards AUTOSAR OS (RTA-OS) and starts the slave core. The slave core executes the hypervisor which provides two virtual machines (VM0 and VM1). Within each of these VMs an (adapted) AUTOSAR OS (RTA-OS) is running.