PERSONAL MEDIA CORPORATION INTENDS TO DEVELOP ITRON PORT TO SUN MICROELECTRONICS EMBEDDED PROCESSORSPERSONAL MEDIA CORPORATION INTENDS TO DEVELOP ITRON PORT TO SUN MICROELECTRONICS EMBEDDED PROCESSORSBOSTON, MA ( April 2, 1996) -- Personal Media Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the TRON Association, and Sun Microelectronics, Sunnyvale, CA announced today at the Embedded Systems Conference East intention to port ITRON (Industrial TRON) specification OS to the microSPARC™-II and microSPARC-IIep processors. This agreement will provide embedded system designers a total solution approach with hardware, operating system support, and development tools for the consumer market. TRON (The Real-time Operating System Nucleus) is a project aimed at creating an ideal computer architecture. Micro-ITRON, a sub-project of the TRON Project, incorporates real-time, multitasking operating system specifications for embedded systems. The micro-ITRON 3.0 specification goals include: deriving maximum advantage from hardware performance, achieving a high level of real-time response, enabling application to a wide range of hardware, and maximizing software productivity without sacrificing performance. The micro-ITRON 3.0 specification is optimized for connection functions for distributed systems linked in a network. Current research involves designing ITRON-MP (multiprocessor), an extension of ITRON for shared-memory multiprocessor systems, and IMTRON, which supports dynamically reconfigurable distributed systems. Sun intends to work with Personal Media Corporation to provide customers with otal solutions for the microSPARC-II and microSPARC-IIep for the internetworking, ffice automation and consumer market. "By further developing this relationship, Sun intends to provide new growth opportunities in the embedded marketplace," said Raj Parekh, vice president and general manager of the Embedded Products Group at Sun Microelectronics. "We're expanding our development efforts to Sun's highly integrated processors to continue to achieve ITRON goals," said Tatsuya Isumina, President of Personal Media Corporation. "The embedded system operating system field is likely to grow as microprocessor functionality and performance continue to increase. Therefore, ITRON specifications are expanding to stay on pace with this trend. ITRON specification OS can be used in many applications, such as consumer appliance products, factory/laboratory systems which require good real-time response, micro-kernels for QA applications."
About the TRON ProjectDr. Ken Sakamura pioneered the TRON Project at the University of Tokyo in 1984. The TRON Project is aimed at an ideal computer architecture assuming the technological evels from the 1990s into the twenty-first century. This ideal is premised on advanced VLSI technology, emphasizes real-time processing and cost-performance, and is aimed at the ultimate realization of the von Neumann architecture. The TRON Project is applying consistent and wholly new design principles to architectures across the entire range of computer applications, encompassing consumer electronics, industrial robots, personal computers, workstations, large-scale computers, and telephone switching systems.The TRON Project is ultimately aiimed at a "computing everywhere" future, in which every sort of object will be computer-embedded, and will be linked by loose networks enabling these "intelligent" objects to collaborate with each other. The detailed information about the TRON Project is available via the World Wide Web at http://tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/TRON/. The TRON Association has been established to prepare TRON specification documents and administer conformance testing. Membership is open to anyone sharing the objectives of the TRON Project and agreeing to observe the TRON Association rules.
About Personal Media CorporationPersonal Media Corporation was established in 1980. It designs and sells software packages and consulting services. Information about Personal Media Corporation is also available via the World Wide Web at http://www.personal-media.co.jp.
About Sun MicroelectronicsSun Microelectronics (formerly SPARC Technology Business), a division of Sun Microsystems Inc., was formed in April 1993 to develop, design and distribute SPARC technologies and products worldwide. The divisions portfolio includes microprocessors, chipsets, modules, boards, technology licenses, silicon and systems packages and consulting services. Currently, the division has more than 500 employees working in product development, engineering, marketing and worldwide sales and support.Complete information on Sun Microelectronics is available via the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/sparc. Information on the SPARC architecture, including a complete list of its supporters, is available at http://www.sun.com/sparc/.
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