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AT91SAM9260 RTOS

Hello again,

We've decided to use the Atmel AT91SAM9260 for our project. The chip is probably a bit more powerful than we currently need, but it's always nice to have room for future enhancements, and it's slightly more expensive than most of the ARM7 and Coldfire chips we were looking at. While waiting for my development kit, I'm trying to figure out what development tools and RTOS to use. The Rowley CrossWorks toolset was highly recommended by a few of you, so we'll probably end up using that.

I'm having a hard time determining which OS to use, however. Ideally, it should already be ported to AT91SAM9. It should also have a TCP/IP stack, and a board-support package for the AT91SAM9260-EK (or something very similar) would be very nice. We're not opposed to paying for the RTOS, but $4000 is well out of our price range. We'd prefer something that's $1000 or less. So far, I've found FreeRTOS

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eCos, uCLinux, ARM Linux, and the LinuxLink subscription from TimeSys.

Does anyone have any experience using a RTOS with this processor? Are there any other OSes I should be looking into? Any recommendations, comments, random thoughts are greatly appreciated. This is an ongoing learning process for me, so I've got a number of questions and unknowns.

Thanks, Alex

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CrossWorks includes a "tasking library" that seems fairly good - you'd need to add a TCP/IP stack but otherwise it's ready to go & free (with the toolset).

Peter

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Peter

I'm using Rowleys right now for this fairly complex little widget:

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The CTL (Crossworks Tasking Library) has all the fundamentals and it's very easy to get going. It's missing I/O and networking. I've used EFSL and uIP for that, which covers my needs. So I have nothing but good things to say about Rowleys stuff (and I'm not working for them ;)

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"okalex" skrev i meddelandet news: snipped-for-privacy@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...

I have been working with ENEA to have the OSE Epsilon ported to the SAM9260. I have no idea on the pricing structure they use.

Since the SAM9260 is using external flash, you want to check with your potential compiler/debugger vendor how they plan to support you programming the external flash when you start a debugging session.

Atmel has close cooperation with IAR and Keil for this device. Also there are relations w Green Hills. For Linux, gcc compilers are OK.

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Ulf Samuelsson

Oh, I was under the impression that this could be handled by the JTAG debugger. Is this not the case? I'll be using Rowley CrossWorks with their CrossConnect debugger. Does anyone know if I'll be able to program the flash using the Rowley toolset?

Thanks, Alex

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Regards, Viron.

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vviron

Sciopta runs on a at91sam9261-ek but we're not that cheap.

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It won't fit (very likely) :-)

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