Pendulum Instruments
Success Story
ABSTRACT
Pendulum Instruments chooses Nucleus RTOS to develop its high-performance and high-speed measurement tools and get them to market quickly and cost-effectively.
“There is a constant push from the market to combine short development times, low development and production costs with the best possible performance. To meet these high requirements, we needed an embedded OS that combines good real time behavior with a cost-effective, flexible business model, while at the same time, brings us up to speed with what we do best: develop the high performance and high speed measurements our customers expect. Together with the flexibility to add auxiliary non-critical, ready-made functionality such as TCP/IP and good quality development tools, we selected Nucleus RTOS as our software of choice.”
Staffan Johansson, vice president of sales and marketing, Pendulum Instruments
Pendulum's Selection of Nucleus for the CNT-90
Developers at Pendulum began looking for an embedded operating system with a rich feature set and highly optimized performance combined with a flexible business model. They quickly chose Nucleus RTOS because it contained all of these features. Robust and scalable, Nucleus RTOS provided a solid and reliable foundation from which to build the CNT-90 measurement device.
Nucleus RTOS consists of a wide variety of feature-rich, add-on middleware components including prototyping tools, real-time kernels, TCP/IP protocol stack, portable graphics software package and development tools. Each are tightly integrated so the entire OS package runs seamlessly.
CNT-90
The CNT-90 is a tool for measurement, analysis and calibration of frequency, time interval or phase. Whether in test systems, on the R&D bench, in the calibration lab or out in the field, the CNT-90 is the state-of-the-art timer/counter/analyzer and outperforms any existing counter on the market. The CNT-90 is the worlds fastest timer/counter/analyzer and offers a unique ease-of-use with graphical display and improved control over measurement at an outstanding price.
About Pendulum Instruments
Pendulum Instruments AB is a Swedish innovation company focused on solutions for calibration, measurement and analysis of time and frequency as well as related parameters. The company is one of the world's leading suppliers of frequency counters, and number one in Europe. Pendulum is a spin-off company from Philips T&M division, with over 40 years experience in the test and measurement business.
Pendulum Instrument's CNT-90
Tools Used
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Nucleus
Nucleus OS is an efficient real-time operating system (RTOS) with storage and database management, USB, networking and connectivity, multimedia technology and advanced graphical user interface capabilities.
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Nucleus Kernel
Nucleus Kernel services are designed, but not limited to, embedded applications such as medical devices, consumer electronics, set-top boxes, cell phones, and other portable and handheld devices
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Inflexion UI for Nucleus
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EDGE Developer Suite
EDGE Developer Suite, an IDE built upon the Eclipse™ framework, provides all aspects of Nucleus and Linux development, from host simulation, through board bring-up and the creation of boot code and drivers, to operating system porting and application development.
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