QP actor frameworks and QM modeling tool

About QP ======== QP is a family of lightweight, open source software frameworks for building responsive and modular real-time embedded applications as systems of cooperating, event-driven active objects (actors). The QP family consists of QP/C, QP/C++, and QP-nano frameworks, which are all strictly quality controlled, superbly documented, and commercially licensable. All QP frameworks can run on "bare-metal" single-chip microcontrollers, completely replacing a traditional Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). Ports and ready-to-use examples are provided for all major CPU families. QP/C and QP/C++ can also work with a traditional OS/RTOS, such as: POSIX (Linux, QNX), Windows, VxWorks, ThreadX, MicroC/OS, FreeRTOS, etc. The behavior of active objects is specified in QP by means of hierarchical state machines (UML statecharts). The frameworks support manual coding of UML state machines in C or C++ as well as fully automatic code generation by means of the free graphical QM modeling tool. The QP frameworks and the QM modeling tool receive over 30,000 downloads a year (not even counting downloads of QP ports) and are being used in millions of products worldwide. The commercial licensees include some of the largest companies in their respective markets, such as: medical devices, defense & aerospace, robotics, consumer electronics, wired and wireless telecommunications, industrial automation, transportation, and many more. **** NOTE: If your company has a policy forbidding open source in your product, all QP frameworks can be licensed commercially, in which case you don't use any open source license and you do not violate your policy. **** Please visit www.state-machine.com/qp for more information about QP. About QM ======== The QP state machine frameworks make also excellent targets for *automatic code generation*, which is provided by a graphical modeling tool called QM (QP Modeler). QM is a free, cross-platform, graphical UML modeling tool for designing and implementing real-time embedded applications based on the QP active object frameworks. QM is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. QM provides intuitive diagramming environment for creating good looking hierarchical state machine diagrams and hierarchical outline of your entire application. QM eliminates coding errors by automatic generation of compact C or C++ code that is 100% traceable from your design. Please visit www.state-machine.com/qm for more information about QM. Supported Processors ==================== All types of QP frameworks (QP/C, QP/C++, and QP-nano) can be easily adapted to various microprocessor architectures and compilers. Adapting the QP software is called porting and all QP frameworks have been designed from ground up to make the porting easy. A large, steadily growing number of QP Development Kits (QDKs) for various processors and compilers are available for immediate download. Currently supported processors are: * ARM Cortex-M0/M3 (Texas Instruments, ST, Atmel, NXP) * ARM7/ARM9 (Texas Instruments, ST, Atmel, NXP) * MSP430 (Texas Instruments) * TMS320C28x (Texas Instruments) * AVRmega (Atmel) * AVRxmega (Atmel) * M16C / R8C / M32C (Renesas) * H8 (Renesas) * ColdFire (Freescale) * HC08 (Freescale) * Nios-II (Altera) * 8051 / 80251 (Silicon Labs, Atmel) * PIC18 (Microchip) * PIC24 / dsPIC (Microchip) * PSoC (Cypress) popular platforms ----------------- * Arduino * mbed Please visit www.state-machine.com/downloads for more information about available QDKs. Supported Operating Systems/RTOSs ================================== The QP/C and QP/C++ frameworks can also work on top of conventional operating systems/RTOSs. Currently supported OSs/RTOSs are: * Linux (POSIX) * Windows / WindowsCE (Microsoft) * VxWorks (Wind River) * ThreadX (Express Logic) * FreeRTOS.org (Richard Barry) * µC/OS-II (Micrium) * eCos * QNX (QNX) Please visit www.state-machine.com/downloads for more information about available QDKs. Licensing ========= The QP frameworks are available under the dual licensing business model, in which both the open source software distribution mechanism and traditional closed source software distribution models are combined. QP is open source software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Alternatively, this program may be distributed and modified under the terms of Quantum Leaps commercial licenses, which expressly supersede the GNU General Public License and are specifically designed for licensees interested in retaining the proprietary status of their code. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. The QM graphical modeling tool is free to download and use, but is not open source. The QM tool is provided under the terms of a simple End-User License Agreement (EULA). Contact information: -------------------- Quantum Leaps Websites: http://www.state-machine.com http://www.quantum-leaps.com e-mail: info@quantum-leaps.com toll-free: 1-866-450-LEAP (US Eastern Standard Time)