Introduction to Sun Embedded Workshop

Sun Embedded Workshop provides the ChorusOS^TM operating system and a complete development environment for creating an application that runs on the ChorusOS operating system or an embedded system based on the ChorusOS operating system.

High-performance and high-availability, combined with a simple, flexible configuration mechanism make Sun Embedded Workshop particularly well-adapted for developing and deploying a wide range of telecommunications, data communications, and consumer applications.

Sun Embedded Workshop Components

Sun Embedded Workshop contains the following components:

• The ChorusOS operating system. See "Operating System Components" for information about the operating system components.

• A complete development environment for creating applications or systems that use this operating system. See "Development Environment Components" for information about the development environment components.

Supported Processor Families

This release of Sun Embedded Workshop is available for the following development platforms:

• Solaris operating environments, supporting the following targets:

  • x86, Pentium

  • Motorola PowerPC 60x and 750 processor family (ppc60x)

  • Motorola PowerQUICC I (mpc8xx) and PowerQUICC II (mpc8260) microcontrollers

  • UltraSPARC IIi

• Windows NT platforms, supporting the following targets:

  • Motorola PowerPC 60x and 750 processor family (ppc60x)

See the ChorusOS Release Notes for the latest information about supported target platforms.