Motorola Inc’s Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Arizona, has introduced a new version of its real-time development system, and says that it now supports Unix System V.4 on 88000 family RISC-based host systems, which means VMEexec 3.0 can be used to develop embedded applications on the company’s MVME197 88110 RISC-based boards. VMEexec comes with the Motorola host system, operating system for either 68000 or 88000 architecture, VMEexec start-up kit and a Motorola target board which hosts the run-time environment. The 3.0 release also supports 68040-based target nodes and the Unix System V.4 capability brings 88000 host systems a C++ compiler and Motorola’s DeltaPro Cross Toolbox for host debugging of VMEexec real-time target tasks on 68000 or 88000-based boards. The start-up kit includes one run-time licence for the appropriate kernel (pSOS+), SVIDlib and portable streams environment. Each target node in a real-time network requires a separate run-time licence. The VMEexec 3.0 development environment is priced at $5,700 for use on 68000 or 88000 host systems, and $7,500 for both 68000 and 88000 target environments.
