Project Stories

RTOS Port for Nios II. Kros Technology's KROS real-time operating system is a priority driven, preemptive, multi-tasking operating system that uses the POSIX interface (API) for increased portability. Xaplos ported this low memory RTOS to Altera's Nios II FPGA-based processor and completely integrated it with Altera's hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and the Newlib C runtime library. To round out the feature set of the RTOS, Xaplos also ported Iniche's TCP/IP stack, EBSNet's ERTFS FAT 32 file system, and Swell Software's PEG graphics library to work seamlessly with KROS and Altera's Eclipse based IDE.

Smart megapixel camera. When Imperx, an industry leader in state-of-the-art imaging, was ready to redesign their existing camera product line to "smart" cameras, the contacted Xaplos. Time to market was short, so they drew on Xaplos's embedded software experience to complement their internal resources. Within weeks, new "smart" cameras were shipping with advanced firmware capable of controlling all aspects of the camera's "smart" configurations. Xaplos also leveraged from our expansive toolbox of internal "products" to quickly develop a complete Windows-based application to interact with the newly developed firmware.

Automotive handheld device. When DiabloSport wanted to revolutionize the automotive after-market performance industry, they called Xaplos for assistance. Through a partnership between the two companies, Xaplos worked along side DiabloSport engineers developing the Trinity hardware. Xaplos provided software support for USB, CAN, LCD, touch screen, SD along with full-featured "demo" applications to jumpstart DiabloSport's software engineers.