Accelerated Technology Inc. According to Raj Johnson, president and CEO of MapuSoft, one of the main advantages of OSChanger is that it can help move applications to the Nucleus royalty-free environment without the need to learn a new interface. Portions of a program that access VxWorks directly through the VxWorks API are mapped to Nucleus. In cases where no corresponding function exists in the target operating system, one is added or emulated.
Developers have access to all the APIs of both RTOSes.
Our goal is to leverage the existing infrastructure and build on a successful RTOS, not to build a new one. Although most of MapuSoft's current customers are OEMs, Johnson does not rule out the enterprise market, which he said is one that MapuSoft has largely ignored. This is the untapped market for us. This is a market where people do the porting by themselves and where our product can help. In January, embedded Linux developer MontaVista Software Inc. released tools aimed at enabling migration from VxWorks to Hard Hat Linux, the company's Linux distribution designed for embedded systems.