HARPOON (RTOS on Cortex-A)

HARPOON

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Harpoon is a base enablement software which provides an isolated real-time domain running on high performance 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A core(s). The Jailhouse hypervisor is used for hardware resource partitioning, allowing the real-time domain RTOS to run in parallel with a feature rich Linux distribution and with minimal impact on the RTOS real-time performance.

Harpoon supports FreeRTOS and Zephyr as the Jailhouse guest operating systems. This offers customers a choice to develop real-time applications on higher performance Cortex-A cores (Armv8-A) compared to the Cortex-M cores.

Harpoon is supported on NXP applications processors—i.MX 8M Mini, i.MX 8M Nano, i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 93. Harpoon provides reference real-time audio and industrial applications, plus a real-time latency measurement application for quick customer evaluation.

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Harpoon Software Architecture

Harpoon Software Architecture
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Features

  • Jailhouse hypervisor partitions physical hardware to create dedicated resources for each domain
  • Support for multiple open-source real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS and Zephyr RTOS) as guest OS
  • Support of MCUXpresso development environment to ease porting of customer applications
  • Standard IPC mechanisms (RPMsg, VirtIO) to communicate between Linux and guest OS
  • Pre-integrated real-time reference applications for quick evaluation of the unique software architecture
  • Support of AVB Talker and Listener streaming through NXP GenAVB/TSN Middleware stack
  • Yocto support for Linux development

Supported Devices

  • i.MX8MMINI: i.MX 8M Mini - Arm® Cortex®-A53, Cortex-M4, Audio, Voice, Video
  • i.MX8MNANO: i.MX 8M Nano Family - Arm® Cortex®-A53, Cortex-M7
  • IMX8MPLUS: i.MX 8M Plus – Arm® Cortex®-A53, Machine Learning, Vision, Multimedia and Industrial IoT
  • i.MX93: i.MX 93 Applications Processor Family – Arm® Cortex®-A55, ML Acceleration, Power Efficient MPU

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