Companies collaborate to target automotive electronics systems
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IC design consultant EnSilica and embedded system developer Pebble Bay are collaborating to target automotive electronics design by porting the ERIKA Enterprise open source rtos to EnSilica's eSi-RISC family of configurable soft processor cores. The port is said to provide proof of the eSi-RISC processor's suitability for use in embedded automotive systems applications and to demonstrate Pebble Bay's embedded software development and consulting services credentials to potential automotive customers.
"The breadth and depth of our combined microprocessor and rtos expertise is well suited to the needs of the automotive electronics industry," said Ian Willats, managing director of Pebble Bay Consulting. "We see this port … as a means of further demonstrating the services we have to offer."
The ERIKA Enterprise rtos is an open source implementation of the ISO 17356 API developed for use in automotive applications. Providing a minimal flash real time kernel and implementing an open source version of the OSEK/VDX open architecture specification for automotive electronics systems, it supports single and multicore embedded systems.
Meanwhile, eSi-RISC soft processor cores scale across a range of applications and support both 16 and 32bit configurations. Proven in a number of asic and fpga technologies, the range includes the eSi-1600 16bit processor, eSi-3200 32bit processor, eSi-3250 32bit processor and eSi-3250sfp single precision floating point unit.
Ian Lankshear, EnSilica's managing director, added: "The opportunity for eSi-RISC in the automotive electronics market is potentially enormous and this collaboration with Pebble Bay … will fundamentally improve our ability to target it."
