Neutrino rtos upgraded to version 6.5

Targeted at automotive, industrial, medical, networking and defence applications, version 6.5 of the rtos is accompanied by an upgrade to the Momentics tool suite. Along with support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) on ARM Cortex-A9 processors and Freescale Power e500MC processor cores, version 6.5 can now support SMP on processors with up to 32 cores, providing scalability for compute intensive applications in networking, image processing and other environments. Other improvements in the release include faster kernel performance under heavy memory use and higher file system throughput on many platforms. Other RTOS enhancements include support for Intel advanced programmable interrupt controllers (APICs), Intel message signalled interrupts (MSIs) and expanded support for x86 boards from Advantech, Intel, and Kontron. A further enhancement is a new Persistent Publish/Subscribe service, which QNX says can simplify the design and maintenance of systems that integrate disparate hardware devices and software components. The Momentics Tool Suite offers an Eclipse based IDE with profiling tools that are said to provide better insight into system behaviour. The compiler in Version 6.5 of the suite offers optimised dynamic linking, including lazy linking and GNU hashing.