Express Logic Launches ThreadX® MCU Edition for Microchip Technology’s PIC24 Microcontrollers and dsPIC® DSCs

Express Logic Launches ThreadX® MCU Edition for Microchip Technology's PIC24 Microcontrollers and dsPIC® DSCs

Express Logic, Inc. has announced the availability of its new ThreadX® Microcontroller Edition RTOS, “ThreadX®/MCU,” for the 16-bit PIC24 microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC® digital signal controllers (DSCs) from Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors.

Multithreading RTOS for industry-leading 16-bit controllers

Until now, ThreadX has been available only for 32-bit processors and DSPs. But through a cooperative effort with Microchip, Express Logic has created a brand-new version of ThreadX, called ThreadX MCU Edition (ThreadX/MCU), to support one of the leading 16-bit architectures in the embedded industry—Microchip’s PIC24 MCU and dsPIC DSC families.

ThreadX/MCU is a fully upward-compatible, reduced-size, fine-tuned 16-bit edition of Express Logic’s popular 32-bit ThreadX RTOS and is available exclusively for Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC30/33 DSCs. ThreadX/MCU provides full preemptive scheduling, interrupt management, message passing, thread synchronization, resource locking, event management and timer control, and supports up to 10 threads, queues, timers, mutexes, event flag groups, block pools and byte pools.