Eclipse ThreadX

Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 15:59 by Stefan Wick

Basics

This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the Eclipse Development Process) and is written to declare its intent and scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the community. Please login and add your feedback in the comments section.

Project

Eclipse ThreadX

Parent Project

Eclipse IoT

Proposal State

Created

Background

Eclipse ThreadX is an embedded development suite including a small but powerful real-time operating system that provides reliable, ultra-fast performance for resource-constrained devices. It’s easy-to-use and market-proven, having been deployed on more than 12 billion devices worldwide. Eclipse ThreadX supports the most popular 32-bit microcontrollers and embedded development tools, so you can make the most of your team’s existing skills.

Scope

Eclipse ThreadX provides a vendor-neutral, open source, safety certified OS for real-time applications published on under a permissive license. Eclipse ThreadX is the first and only RTOS in the market that has all four of those attributes and comes with a complete embedded development suite.

Description

Eclipse ThreadX provides a vendor-neutral, open source, safety certified OS for real-time applications published on under a permissive license.

The Eclipse ThreadX suite encompasses:

ThreadX - advanced real-time operating system (RTOS) designed specifically for deeply embedded applications
NetX Duo - advanced, industrial-grade TCP/IP network stack designed specifically for deeply embedded real-time and IoT applications
FileX - high-performance, FAT-compatible file system that’s fully integrated with ThreadX kernel
GUIX - provides a complete, embedded graphical user interface (GUI) library
USBX - high-performance USB host, device, and on-the-go (OTG) embedded stack, that is fully integrated with ThreadX kernel
LevelX - Flash Wear Leveling for FileX and stand-alone purposes
GuiX Studio - design environment, facilitating the creation and maintenance of all graphical elements for CUIX
TraceX - analysis tool that provides a graphical view of real-time system events to better understand the behavior of real-time systems

Licenses

The MIT License (MIT)

Why Here?

Continue and broaden access to the ThreadX / Azure RTOS technology under the Eclipse Foundation. Evolve product capabilities and list of supported microcontrollers as a community driven project.

Future Work

TBD - will be driven by semiconductor vendors and other partners in the community to evolve the product in alignment with latest MCU capabilities

Project Scheduling

November 2023 - initial contributions

January 2024 - first build/release

People

Project Leads

Committers