There are plenty of third party ones out there, but that has not deterred the Austin, Texas-based Advanced Microcontroller Division of Motorola Inc to make available its own Real-Time Embedded Kernel, called RTEK, for 68300 32-bit microcontrollers based on the CPU32 core. The RTEK kernel is claimed to provide a robust real-time operating system framework for a broad range of embedded software applications, and supports both static and dynamic kernel objects, Motorola says. It provides over 180 services to manage system resources such as the CPU, program tasks, memory and time. The RTEK kernel enables real-time data manipulation and provides a common application programming interface for all related tasks. Included with the RTEK package is a graphical system generation program called RTEKgen, designed for easy configuration of the system. A version of the RTEK operating system also available for the PowerPC MCP500 embedded family. That one and the 68300 version are available now at from $3,450 per developer.
