The Unison OS is suitable for use in controlling operating room equipment, intelligent eyewear, and other advanced medical devices for the home, physician's offices, and hospitals. RoweBots Inc., a supplier of tiny embedded Linux-compatible real-time operating systems (RTOS) products, has released Version 5.2 of the operating system, which uses the Xilinx Microblaze softcore technology. The OS provides the key, high-performance software framework required. The ultra-tiny embedded Linux-compatible RTOS opens a broad set of medical, embedded, or imaging applications to Linux- and POSIX-compatible development with extensive connectivity options, data storage, and substantially enhanced performance on the same hardware.

Unison's open standards or Linux compatibility, ultra tiny size, zero boot time, high performance, and modularity are the key features that substantially reduce system development risk, cost, and time. According to the company, more than 50 Unison demonstration programs run out of the box on Xilinx Microblaze development kits in 10 minutes.

Unison's newest features include:

• USB host and device I/O
• Extensive wireless I/O
• Enhanced networking (TCP IPv6 with IPv4 and SNMP v1, 2c, 3)
• Compact Flash File system
• High performance PCIe
• Graphics
• Remedy Tools (RED Analyzer and Bootloader)