Versatile Real-Time Executive (VRTX) is a real-time operating system nowadays developed and marketed by the company Mentor Graphics. VRTX is suitable for both traditional board-based embedded systems and SoC architectures. The VRTX operating system began as a product of Hunter & Ready, a company founded by James Ready and Colin Hunter in 1980 which later became Ready Systems. This firm later merged with Microtec Research in 1993 and went public in 1994.

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  • Versatile Real-Time Executive (VRTX) is a real-time operating system nowadays developed and marketed by the company Mentor Graphics. VRTX is suitable for both traditional board-based embedded systems and SoC architectures. The VRTX operating system began as a product of Hunter & Ready, a company founded by James Ready and Colin Hunter in 1980 which later became Ready Systems. This firm later merged with Microtec Research in 1993 and went public in 1994. This firm was then acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995 and VRTX became a Mentor product. VRTX comes in two flavors: VRTXmc (micro-controller) for small systems requiring minimal memory use and VRTXsa (scalable architecture) for full operating system features. Most companies developing software with VRTX use ARM, MIPS, PowerPC or other RISC microprocessors. VRTX runs the Hubble Space Telescope. VRTX is used as a core for the Motorola proprietary P2K operating system, which runs on most company devices since the Motorola V60 and T280i, up to the Motorola RAZR V9x. It runs on several hardware platforms including LTE (Motorola V300, V500, V600, E398, RAZR V3 and others featuring the ARM7 processor), LTE2 (Motorola L7 and upcoming devices with 176x220 screen resolution), Rainbow POG (3G phones featuring an MCORE processor from Motorola E1000 to RAZR V3x), Argon (all new 3G phones with 532 MHz ARM11 processor since Motorola RAZR maxx V6 and V3xx) and others. Since the 1980s, VRTX has been a rival to the VxWorks operating system, a Wind River Systems Inc. product.
  • VRTX - Versatile Real-Time Executive è un sistema operativo real-time orientato ai sistemi embedded e SoC e sviluppato perciò per poter essere eseguito su hardware minimi: gli unici requisiti indispensabili perché possa essere eseguito sono un microprocessore e della RAM. È un sistema operativo proprietario in grado di fornire prestazioni hard real-time con il pieno supporto al multitasking. Il core del sistema operativo è costituito da un nanokernel, cioè un kernel minimo che fornisce le capacità di base per il multitasking e per i servizi di sincronizzazione tra processi. Questo sistema operativo supporta diverse architetture, tra cui ARM, MIPS, PowerPC e altri microprocessori RISC.
  • Versatile Real-Time Executive (VRTX) var det första kommersiellt tillgängliga RTOS:et i världen då det kom ut på marknaden 1980. VRTX utvecklades av Hunter & Ready Den ene ägaren av Hunter & Ready, Jim Ready, löste så småningom ut sin kollega Colin Hunter och bildade Ready Systems. VRTX såldes initialt i form av förprogrammerade PROM-kapslar. Med tekniksprånget med de raderbara EPROM-kapslarna övergick man till etiketter som skulle klistras på kapslarna vid produktion för att indikera att royaltyn var betald. En variant för microprocessorn Z80 från Zilog kallad VRTX80 utvecklades i Sverige av Peter Holmgren på det svenska teknikföretaget Digitailor AB och såldes på världsbasis via Hunter & Ready och sedermera Ready Systems under många år. Senare beställdes även en portering till 6809 från Motorola kallad VRTX09. Innovationerna i VRTX80 och VRTX09 med dess kringkomponenter bidrog till vidareutvecklingen VRTX32 vilken nådde marknaden under mitten av 1980-talet. Användningsområdet för VRTX jämte många av sina RTOS-konkurrenter idag är mestadels i produkter med riktigt hårda krav på förutsägbarhet och responstider. Den större delen av marknaden för applikationer med något lägre krav har tagits över av funktionsrika konkurrenter och fria alternativ med andra och flexiblare affärsmodeller. Ett exempel på detta är Monta Vista Linux från företaget Monta Vista som grundades av just Jim Ready. Idag marknadsförs de två varianterna VRTXmc och VRTXsa av Mentor Graphics som erhållit rättigheterna via ett antal företagsköp.
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  • Versatile Real-Time Executive (VRTX) is a real-time operating system nowadays developed and marketed by the company Mentor Graphics. VRTX is suitable for both traditional board-based embedded systems and SoC architectures. The VRTX operating system began as a product of Hunter & Ready, a company founded by James Ready and Colin Hunter in 1980 which later became Ready Systems. This firm later merged with Microtec Research in 1993 and went public in 1994.
  • VRTX - Versatile Real-Time Executive è un sistema operativo real-time orientato ai sistemi embedded e SoC e sviluppato perciò per poter essere eseguito su hardware minimi: gli unici requisiti indispensabili perché possa essere eseguito sono un microprocessore e della RAM. È un sistema operativo proprietario in grado di fornire prestazioni hard real-time con il pieno supporto al multitasking.
  • Versatile Real-Time Executive (VRTX) var det första kommersiellt tillgängliga RTOS:et i världen då det kom ut på marknaden 1980. VRTX utvecklades av Hunter & Ready Den ene ägaren av Hunter & Ready, Jim Ready, löste så småningom ut sin kollega Colin Hunter och bildade Ready Systems. VRTX såldes initialt i form av förprogrammerade PROM-kapslar.
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