RTEMS on AVR?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:02 -0400, Paul Evans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've talked to Atmel in the past about the price of the SAM7 vs. the AVR,
> and the rule if thumb is about twice the cost. That's not to say the SAM7
> isn't attractive in absolute cost terms, but for higher volume applications
> the AVR (which is a smaller die and has no IP licensing) will cost less.
ACK, just consider that price is just one criterion among several ones.
Sometimes, "space", "power consumption" or "personal
experience/preference" are more important.

> In applications where 16K of RAM is enough, I agree that a "micro RTEMS"
> would be a great alternative to Salvo or UCOS. Having used RTEMS on a 68K
> with 128K RAM I think it should be possible, especially if not all the
> managers are used (just semaphores, queues, and the scheduler perhaps?)
Exactly, that's what at least I hope for (I once used RTEMS on SH1's
w/128k RAM, no pthreads, no itron, no networking).

Ralf