Unison Operating System
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| Unison Operating System | |
| Website | Unison Operating System |
|---|---|
| Company/ developer |
RoweBots Research Inc. |
| Programmed in | ? |
| OS family | Unix-like Real-time operating systems |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest stable release | ? / ? |
| Marketing target | ? |
| Supported platforms | ? |
| Kernel type | ? |
| License | ? |
| Working state | Current |
The Unison Operating System (RTOS) is a multi-core and DSP optimized open source RTOS. The current version of Unison is completely POSIX compliant, offering application portability and very low cost hardware implementation options for distributed multi-core and multiprocessor systems like autonomous robots and vehicles.
Unison was developed as a runtime for powerful real-time embedded heterogeneous multiprocessors which were used for military signal processing. The entire goal of Unison was to provide a software infrastructure that would support the construction of inexpensive, lower power, mobile and portable super computers. Unison successfully met this goal and has been deployed in thousands of systems in the field.[citation needed]
Unison uses the Remedy Debugger and the Eclipse development environment on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris. It is based on the iZoom! product, an Eclipse variant and has common technology and elements with DSPnano RTOS.
Unison has its roots in the Harmony Operating System developed by W. Morven Gentleman, Unix with POSIX.1 in 1994, and pSOS+ developed by Alfred Chao at Software Components Group.
Unison was the flagship product of Multiprocessor Toolsmiths which became RoweBots Research Inc.
