Enea to Support Multicore Association's MCAPI™ Standard

Enea to Support Multicore Association's MCAPI™ Standard 

Interprocess Process Communications Leader will Integrate Emerging
Multicore Communications Standard with its Enea LINX IPC

STOCKHOLM, Embedded World, Nürnberg, Germany; March 1, 2011 - Enea today
announced that it is supporting the Multicore Associations emerging
Multicore Communications API (MCAPI™) standard by implementing MCAPI
over its Enea LINX interprocess communications (IPC) solution to insure
interoperability between closely coupled processing and multicore
devices.  The technology behind LINX has been deployed in over 1.7
billion devices including telecom equipment, automobiles and mobile
devices.  In addition Enea, a long-time member of the Multicore
Association, will join and participate in the consortium's MCAPI Working
Group to help guide the long-term development of the standard.

MCAPI is an evolving message passing standard sponsored under the
auspices of the Multicore Association. The MCAPI API specification is
designed to capture the basic elements of communication and
synchronization that are required for closely distributed (multiple
cores on a chip and/or chips on a board) embedded systems. Although
MCAPI currently specifies an API to applications, it leaves the
implementation of the underlying protocol to MCAPI implementers. This
guarantees compatibility for application code, but does not guarantee
interoperability across MCAPI endpoints or nodes in a system, be it a
multicore device or a set of heterogeneous or homogeneous CPUs. Enea's
LINX already provides a proven and open interoperable protocol across
all devices, all interconnects, and all OS/RTOS environments.  Enea is
implementing MCAPI API standard over its existing LINX protocol, thereby
offering the market an MCAPI API solution that is interoperable between
all nodes, interconnects and OS/RTOS platforms. The LINX protocols
specification as well as the open source reference implementation for
Linux is available at SourceForge.net.

“Recently, there has been much interest in MCAPI in the market,
especially with silicon vendors,” said Marcus Hjortsberg, vice president
of marketing at Enea.  “Silicon vendors, and indeed the overall embedded
industry, want an ecosystem that supports application compatibility as
well as interoperability for IPC solutions, and not point solutions from
multiple vendors. Enea recognizes this trend and therefore has decided
to join the MCAPI initiative.”

”The MCAPI Working Group has just recently re-engaged to define and
develop a subsequent version of this Multicore Association
specification,” said Markus Levy, Multicore Association president.
“Enea, based on its many years of experience with LINX, will provide
tremendous value to this working group effort. In addition, we encourage
others in the embedded community to join the Multicore Association and
participate in one or more of our other multicore-related working
groups.”

Enea is currently demonstrating MCAPI over LINX to partners and
customers.  Enea has been working closely with Freescale and has
developed a demonstration on a Freescale AMC board consisting of a P2020
QorIQ processor with an MSC8156 DSP that shows communications between
multiple OSs including Linux, Enea OSE and OSEck, both within a
multicore device as well as between heterogeneous devices over multiple
interconnects.

For more information

Nordic:
Catharina Paulcén, VP Corporate Communications
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email:
catharina.paulcen@enea.com (catharina.paulcen@enea.com)

North America
Chris Lanfear, Director of Global Marcom
Phone: 1 617 244 9433 or email:
chris.lanfear@enea.com (chris.lanfear@enea.com)

Asia Pacific:
Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President of Software Sales Asia
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email:
fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com (fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com)

Europe:
Mia Åkerström, Marketing Communications, EMEA
Phone: 46 8 507 140 24 or email:
mia.akerstrom@enea.com (mia.akerstrom@enea.com)