Collaboration aims to speed application development in low power mcus

The Cortus APS3 is a general purpose processor designed for embedded systems. The 0.04mm² of silicon is said to feature the lowest available dynamic power consumption (uW per MHz), as well as a high code density and high performance. David Brook of Wittenstein said: "The release of Open and FreeRTOS for this specialised core was driven by customer demand and will be a real benefit to developers using this architecture for low power applications." OpenRTOS is a commercially supported real time operating system based on FreeRTOS. The kernel uses under 10k flash and a few hundred bytes of RAM on the Cortus APS3. Mike Chapman, ceo of Cortus, added: "We are delighted that our customers now have access to one of the most popular embedded operating systems for their developments."