Software for the Power PC

North Star offers a complete design solution for embedded systems using the Motorola MPC7410 Power PC processor.  Our engineers have developed boot code using assembly language programming to configure the processor for custom computer-controlled systems.  C high-level language is used for the main application code.  Our experience includes:

• reset vectors (initialization of the processor)

• machine exception routines (error handlers)

• interrupt routines

• address translation registers (separates data, I/O, and program spaces)

• on-processor L1 cache

• off-processor L2 cache

• memory management unit processing

• moving program code from non-volatile memory to RAM for execution

• dynamic power management (power conservation routines)

• stack and heap management

• interrupt service routines

• C high-level language programming of the main application code

• real-time video image processing algorithms

• AT-bus interface

• bus arbitration for multi-user applications

• direct memory access (DMA) controllers

North Star is using MetroWerks' CodeWarrior software development system to design software for the MPC7410 Power PC.  We also design the electronic hardware for your processor.  Contact us with your application needs.