1. Tool chain used for build
2. Performance
3. New features
4. Improvements
5. Program corrections
6. Known problems
7. Release history
8. Miscellaneous

Tool chain used for build

The following tools have been used:

Compiler:  Rowley  HCC           V1.2 Release build on Jan 15 2004 at 16:15:00
Assembler: Rowley  HAS           V1.2 Release build on Jan 15 2004 at 16:15:00
Librarian: Rowley  HAR           V1.2 Release build on Jan 15 2004 at 16:12:36
Workbench: Rowley  CrossStudio   V1.2

Performance

1. Task switch time
   Release library : 78.2 us = 313 cycles
2. Interrupt latency
   Release library: 38.5 us = 154 cycles

Absolute timings are based on an MSP430F149 running at approx. 4.8 MHz and release build library

New features

Version 3.20

1. OS_Suspend() / OS_Resume() implemented
   New functions to suspend and resume tasks unconditionally.
2. Fixed size memory blocks implemeted
   New functions to allocate fixed size memory blocks from embOS.
3. Dynamic memory allocation supported by embOS
   Thread safe dynamic memory allocation functions implemented.
   Not delivered with standard libraries. Can be activated when compiling sources only.

Improvements

None

Program corrections

None

Known problems

None

Release history

Miscellaneous

This document was first released with version 3.20f of the software.
Software released earlier is documented internally. This information is available at request.