QNX has added Freescale's 1.5-GHz dual e600 Power core MPC8641D support to
its collection of Neutrino real-time operating-system (RTOS) platforms. The
microkernel-based QNX Neutrino supports bound multiprocessing (BMP), where each
core supports dedicated applications, or symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP),
where applications run on the next available core. The RTOS can dynamically
switch between BMP and SMP modes. The Eclipse-based QNX Momentics development
suite supports Neutrino. It includes a multicore-aware debugger and a system
profiler that analyzes quad-core systems (see
the figure). This type of tool is key to efficient system analysis of BMP
and SMP systems. QNX Neutrino supports transparent distributed multiprocessing
in addition to TIPC for Linux Interoperability. The Freescale MPC8641D has dual
PCI Express interfaces and a 4x Serial RapidIO interface.
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