SPA Computers
50, Airport Parkway.
San Jose, CA-95110-1011, USA
Phone: +1 408 451 8457
Email: info@spacomp.com

SPA is an Embedded systems company & software as a major area of focus. SPA provides services in areas such as Consumer electronics, Automotive, Industrial Automation, Telecom & Networking etc.

SPA has considerable experience in various hardware platforms such as XScale, Power PC, ARM Core, X86, Analog devices DSP, NEC, TI 2 Cx, Transmeta, MIPS etc. SPA has completed numerous projects with different OSs like Vxworks, Linux, WinCE, QNX( Distributorship since 1996), Windows NTe/XPe, Palm OS, Amiga, Lynx, CMX, RTX etc.In addition, the company has solid expertise with Motorola's 68000 series and DSPs from Texas Instruments and Analog Devices.

SPA is in business over 18 years having hardware design & Software development centre in Bangalore, India. Our mission is to provide cost effective, high quality, products & services to industries in order to make them globally competitive.

Nucleus Experience in brief:

• Development of a Nucleus Driver for the ZCom Wireless LAN CF Card based on the Intersil Prism 2 chipset to be interfaced to an ARM7 Board 
• Implementation of a Wireless Profile TCP on Nucleus OS
• ARM 7 based Electronic Chart  Plotter on Nucleus OS
• Pentium based STB system with the Nucleus OS to conform to the EN2 standard of OpenTV

Ravi S Vernekar

Global Edge Software Ltd
2900, Gordon Avenue , Suite 100-71
Santa Clara , CA - 95051
Phone: 408-732-7324 or 408-781-5303
Email: ravi@globaledgesoft.com

Global Edge is a software services company, providing services in Embedded, Wireless, Networking and Residential Gateway Domains with expertise in development of USB drivers, wireless device drivers, firmware, BSP, application development on variety of real time operating systems and Linux platform

Global Edge is in business for over 14 years and is SEI CMM Level 5 certified company, having design & development centre in Bangalore, India. Our Mission is to transform our clients' business vision into reality by offering superior, cost effective and quality engineering solutions.

Experience:

• USB drivers on Host and Functional Controller on Nucleus OS with various platforms.
• Porting of MGCP stack onto to ADI Blackfin DSP platform with Nucleus as OS.
• Porting of SLIC driver onto ADI-BlackFin processor with Nucleus as OS.
• Developed serial and Ethernet drivers, flash drivers, wireless drivers (802.11a/b/g and Blue Tooth) on variety of hardware platforms of TI, Motorola, Intel and ADI.
• Development of H.324 stack according to ITU-T standard and porting into the target platform for CDMA mobile using Nucleus OS.

Richard Vlamynck

Nebula E.D.A
8022 NW 93 Terrace
Tamarac, FL, 33321
Phone: 954-726-4419
Email: richard_vlamynck@nebula-eda.com

Experience:

• USB On the Go hardware/software verification and integration.
• Nucleus RTOS Demo Platform for Xilinx VirtexII-Pro with embedded PPC CPU.
• Nucleus integration into Mentor Seamless Verification Environment using VHDL and Verilog hardware modeling languages.
• Subject matter expert in the use of CPU soft cores such as Altera NIOS and Xilinx Microblaze.
• Subject matter expert in the use of Xilinx ISE and EDK. for the construction of embedded systems hardware and software.
• Creation of embedded system debugger plugins for Eclipse Java platform.

Gurudev R Goud(Guru)

MindTree Consulting Private Limited
3333 Bowers Avenue,
Suite 285,
Santa Clara, CA 95054
United States of America
Office: (408) 986-1000 ext. 111
Email: guru@mindtree.com

Experience:

• Design, implementation, and maintenance 20+ Device Drivers on Nucleus for Wireless Terminal SoC based on ARM9.
• Certification of Nucleus for DO-178B Level A.
• Integration of MindTree's Bluetooth stack on Nucleus RTOS to provide an application development environment for Bluetooth enabled Cell Phones and PDAs.

Srini R. Srinivasan

Quorant InfoSystems Pvt. Ltd.
1263 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
USA
Phone: 408-530-1545
Fax: 408-720-9114
Email: enquiry@quorant.com

Experience:

• Quorant provides engineering services for telecom and embedded applications. We have been using Nucleus PLUS and Nucleus NET since 1999 on a range of protocols such as PPP/ML, ISDN PRI, MGCP and SIP.
• Well experienced in embedded systems design, hardware design and product development.
• Well experienced in ARM, SH3, SH4, Freescale 860, 8260 families. Developed BSPs, device drivers for several microprocessors.
• Designed and developed an ARM based SIP Phone.
• Interfaced SIP stack & UA with a Siemens PDA running Win CE.
• Ported stacks to run under Nucleus PLUS and NEt envionment.
• Design and development of an ISDN mini-router based on Freescale 360 architecture running Nucleus RTOS.

David Scholten

www.2d3d.com
1845 S. Federal Hwy Ste 356
Delray Beach, FL 33483
USA
Phone: 561-278-7717
Email: dscholten@2d3d.com

Experience: 2d3D has developed an API layer, drivers and codecs for MPEG4, MP3 and I2C bus interface for Tensilica processors running Nucleus.

David T. Schneider

Dathosch Technology
3980 Balleycastle Lane
Duluth, GA 30097
USA
Phone: (770) 622-9544
Email: DavidS@DathoschTech.com

We have three plus years of experience with Nucleus in the ARM and NucleusMNT+ environment. Our ARM experience includes working with Flash memory boot sequences and custom interrupt handlers in a cordless telephone system, porting Nucleus to run on a software model of the ARM PID7T development board using ARM tools and Nucleus EDE and porting Nucleus to the SoC Solutions version of the CARMeN board from Sidsa.

Our Nucleus MNT+ experience includes modifying the UART and interrupt controller drivers to make Nucleus MNT+ run on software models of UART and ARM style interrupt controllers. We have also ported Nucleus NET to run UDP & TCP/IP/PPP over the UART models interfacing with Windows 2000 generic modem drivers.

We have the knowledge, experience and skill to provide Board Support Packages (BSPs), device drivers, hardware and software architecture and embedded applications for versions of Nucleus in addition to ARM and Nucleus MNT+.

David Love

Intelligraphics
1401 N. Central Expwy., Ste. 320
Richardson, TX 75080
USA
Phone: (972) 479-1770 x120
Email: david.love@intelligraphics.com

Intelligraphics is a recognized leader in professional embedded software development services. Since 1992, our experienced team of senior-level developers has designed and implemented software solutions for products on a variety of hardware platforms. Intelligraphics provides embedded software for set-top boxes, Internet appliances, mobile phones, PDAs, multimedia consumer electronics, display and digital imaging, networking and telecommunications, industrial automation and other real-time systems.

Intelligraphics' Nucleus experience includes custom device drivers, BSPs, and embedded software solutions, such as:

• MPEG-2 Decoder Drivers
• TV Encoder Drivers
• I2C Drivers (Drove communications with a TV encoder chip)
• DVB Common De-scrambler Drivers
• OSD Driver (Sends display information to an on-screen display device)
• Subtitling Driver (Read subtitling information from an MPEG digital stream and displayed it on screen via an OSD driver)
• Audio ADC Drivers
• SCART Drivers (Controlled Audio/RGB switch pins at a SCART connector)
• SmartCard Drivers
• Serial Driver (RS-232/C interface)
• IR Drivers
• QPSK NIM Drivers (A satellite network interface driver)
• Embedded software and drivers for a GSM mobile phone
• Demultiplexer Drivers
• Modem Drivers (Supported a 2.4 kilobit-per-second modem)
• Kernel Adaptation Layer / interface for OpenTV
• Hardware-specific kernel configuration
• Bootloader software

Intelligraphics can also provide custom Nucleus development for:

• Ethernet / Fast Ethernet
• SONET
• Storage
• 2D/3D Display
• Digital Imaging
• Printers
• Bluetooth
• Wireless LAN
• Broadband
• IP Communications

Stephen Thompson

Syzygy Projects
31 Lamberts Lane
Congleton, Cheshire CW12 3AU
United Kingdom
Phone: (+44) 07711-278588
Email: syzygy.projects@btinternet.com

• 4 years plus experience with Nucleus Plus:
  
  -Implementing Nucleus Plus on a TMS320 DSP in a power relay application- Implementing Nucleus Plus on a Samsung ARM processor in a comms application
  - Developing Nucleus Plus drivers for Asynchronous and HDLC Serial Comms
  - Implementation of a Flash file system in Nucleus
  - Understanding of inner workings of Nucleus Plus
   
• In addition I also have experience in
  
  - interfacing a Nucleus Plus TMS320 based board with a PowerPC board running
  VxWorks via a shared RAM buffer.
  - Investigating timings for interrupt latency and Nucleus Plus services in ahigh speed data processing system
   
• I have 20+ years of experience in real-time embedded design and implementation using Freescale, Intel, Hitachi and Texas processors, oneverything from Paper Tape Units, High Speed Digital Communication systems, Printers, Satellite Communications, Power Electronics, Road Traffic Controls, Railway Signalling Systems and
  Process Control Systems."

Lianne Morrison

Peninsula Solutions, Inc.
1265 S. Semoran Blvd., Suite 1247
Winter Park, FL 32792
USA
Phone: (407) 673-6544
Email: liannem@peninsulasolutions.com
 

• PSI provides engineering design and development support to moveyour project from concept to completion. PSI's engineers have been designingwith Nucleus PLUS and Nucleus NET since 1999.
• Experienced with queues, semaphores, mailboxes, event groups and TCP/IP communications.

Architected and implemented:

• Interrupt service routines, timers and tasks.
• Interrupt dispatching mechanism to efficiently handle multiple interrupts from a single-level interrupt source.
• Remotely upgradeable firmware for multiple embedded systems.
• Fault tolerant flash file system.
• Inter-process and inter-processor message handling.
• Thread-safe debug tracing of program execution and performance.
• Interfaces for hardware devices such as UARTs, SPORTs, keypads,LCDdisplays, modems, IEEE-1284 parallel ports, ADCs, DACs, DMACs, thermal printheads, stepper motors, flash memory, and host port interfaces

Gerard J. Cerchio

Circlesoft
882 33rd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94l2l
USA
Phone: (415) 387-0367
Email: gjpc@circlesoft.com

• 3rd year of experience with AT Nucleus.
• 26 years experience with RTOS
• Adapted the kernel to the TQM 823 and TQM823e modules.
   http://www.jdt.ch/tqc/TQM823L.HTML
• Worked with the internals of the graphics and networking components
• Adapted the Nucleus Graphics library to run on 4 different displays
• Wrote two device drivers for the system
• An SPI driver for the PPC 8XX internal SPI hardware
• An Ethernet driver for a NE2000 equivalent on the ARC processor
• Published the SPI driver in the public domain (attached)
• Designed and implemented a medical imaging PDA using Nucleus.
• Experience with FDA 510K and ISO 3000 levels of specification and documentation
• Worked with object oriented methods since the first release of Smalltalk  for the PC circa 1987
• Experience with multiple UML specification tools deriving object libraries  from Nucleus data types
• have experience with high performance graphics, storage devices, AI simulations, hardware software interfacing and specification and director  level team management.

Mark A. Odell

Firmware Design, Inc.
3 Brittany Lane
Billerica, MA  01821-2259
USA
Phone: (978) 667-3934
Email: mark@embeddedfw.com

• Wrote BSP for MIPS (R4000) based hardware using Nucleus PLUS
• Wrote BSP for PowerPC (MPC855T) based hardware using Nucleus PLUS  with Nucleus NET

William T. (Tom) Taylor

Taylor Consulting Services
8308 Fountain Ave
Tampa, FL 33615-2807
USA
Phone: (813) 885-4420
Email: ttaylor@ateng.com

• Nucleus RTX and Nucleus PLUS developer since August, 1992.
• Nucleus NET4 and PPP developer since 1999.
• Extensive work with both Intel and Freescale ports.
• Experience (most recent first)
• Maintained AT NET4 TCP/IP protocol stack and client/server
  tasks for a multimedia IP payphone.
• Customized AT NET4 PPP with proprietary IPCP extensions and wrote an asynchronous HDLC Frame-mode driver for fast I/O between DragonBall  CPU and ADSP-2185M DSP-based V.34 modem.
• Designed and developed custom driver scheme for Nucleus PLUS  MC68328 (DragonBall) port, which included an emulation of the WinNT  Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) mechanism to standardize use of  High- level Interrupt Service Routine (HISR) primitives and minimize  interrupt latencies.
• Designed and implemented a standalone 8-port ISDN BRI CO Simulator  using Nucleus PLUS x86 port.
• Designed and implemented serial-to-Ethernet and serial-to-TokenRing gateways using Nucleus PLUS x86 port. Drivers included Fujitsu MB86964
• Ethernet and TI 380C25 Token ring controllers.
• Designed Frame Relay Access Device (FRAD) using NucleusPLUS  MC68MH360 port.
• Ported the Lachman (now Legent) UNIX TCP/IP protocol stack to Nucleus  PLUS.
• Ported the Alcatel TITN X.25 and Frame Relay protocol stacks to Nucleus  PLUS.
• Ported the Telenetworks ISDN BRI/PRI User and Network-side protocol  stacks and Siemens telecomm chip drivers to Nucleus PLUS.
• Maintained, debugged, and enhanced MetaSphere Embedded STREAMS  sources, which client licensed for use with Nucleus PLUS x86 port.
• Led team of developers in converting existing proprietary RTOS tasks  and drivers for x86 multi-protocol communications board to Nucleus  PLUS.
• Drivers included Mitel 8980 TDM Switch, Mitel 8940 ST-BUS Clock  Generator, and proprietary FPGA-based devices for ISA and high-speed  media access module I/O.
• Designed and wrote a Unix System 5 Release 3-compATble STREAMS implementation optimized for use with Nucleus PLUS. Unlike MetaSphere Embedded Streams, this implementation directly uses Nucleus PLUS  thread control and synchronization primitives, and fixed memory  allocation routines for message blocks. Interrupt latency greatly reduced  by using Nucleus PLUS protection primitives instead of interrupt masking  in critical regions.
• Designed and wrote a UNIX System 5 Release 3-compATble device  driver kernel interface library for Nucleus PLUS to simplify and expedite  the porting of existing UNIX device drivers to embedded systems. Developed an x86-based, 8-port EBCDIC to ASCII BiSync  bridge/translator using Nucleus PLUS. Drivers included Cirrus Logic CD-2401 4-port Async/Sync busmastering multiprotocol controller.
• Developed a custom version of Paradigm PDREM for Nucleus PLUS x86  toallow remote, source level debugging of tasks using Paradigm DEBUG  RT-186.
• Designed and developed a set of tools and Nucleus PLUS extensions to  allow use of shared library modules in FLASH with dynamic runtime  linking and fixups.
• Tools were written to convert DOS executables and linker maps to WinNT  PE format, based on UNIX-like shared library scripts. Solution included a  FLASH filesystem to recover space used by updated or deleted modules.  System allowed factory, field, and remote customization and  update of POS systems through low-speed serial connections.
• Designed and developed a software interrupt front-end for Nucleus PLUS x86 and API stub library to allow separation of RTOS and application in resource-limited embedded systems.
• Designed and implemented a WinNT I/O System emulator for Nucleus  PLUS, then ported Colorado QIC117 NT Driver Source to x86-based SCSI  to QIC interface converter. Drivers included Intel 82077AA-1 floppy disk  controller.
• Assisted Accelerated Technology with developing and debugging the Microsoft C/C++ Version 7 and MASM 6 version of Nucleus PLUS x86  port.
• Designed and developed hardware, software, and PCB for Macintosh  SCSI Disk Subsystem with Hardware acceleration using x86 Nucleus RTX  port. Drivers included AHA 3101 DCLZ compression co-processor, NCR  53C94 and 53C90 SCSI controllers.
• Designed and developed AppleTalk protocol stack and LocalTalk drivers  for x86 Nucleus RTX port used on PostScript bubble-jet printer.