topic Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information in MQX Software Solutions

MQX RTOS Licensing Information

mithunp_s — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:42:32 GMT

Dear All,

One of my customer has requirement of MQX RTOS for their project on industrial PID temperature controller.

Freescale - MK60DX series microcontroller has been selected. I require the following details about the MQX RTOS.

Please help on below details,

Cost of basic Freescale MQX RTOS, licencing
Cost details of TCP/IP & USB stack for the above RTOS
Memory requirement for the RTOS

Regards

Mithun

Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information

c0170 — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:50:57 GMT

Hello Mithun P,

the answers can be found here :

General MQX FAQ

Regards,

c1070

Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information

mithunp_s — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:29:42 GMT

Dear Martin,

Thanks for the link, but nothing is clear about the licencing agreement, IT points to Embedded Access Inc.

Embedded Access Inc tells these stacks are free of cost but there is no clarity where I can download/DVD for Embedded Access Inc.

Please let me know do I get all TCP/IP stack with the latest MQX RTOS installation or I need to add separately

Regards

Mithun.

Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information

c0170 — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:45:31 GMT

Hello,

no ordering is required, just download MQX installation and check it by yourself. USB and RTCS are included there with source code.

Regards,

c1070

Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information

ZhangJennie — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:08:16 GMT

regarding to your question:

Cost of basic Freescale MQX RTOS, licencing

MQX itself is free. but it need CW professional license support. this is CW suite price list:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=CW_SUITES&tid=CWH

Cost details of TCP/IP & USB stack for the above RTOS

TCP/IP & USB stack are included in MQX RTOS. needn;t extra cost

Memory requirement for the RTOS

I checked MQX for K60. It shows MQX USB stack is using 11.5K bytes code size and 2K bytes SRAM size.

Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information

iafg — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:54:42 GMT

Mqx license is paid for by Freescale, they provide it complimentary for most Freescale processors. This includes Ethernet stack, USB stack (host, device, hub), file system, shell, documentation and examples. There are some add on pieces that are extra cost if you need them- Like ssl and ash.

You really do want task aware debugging though. This comes with codewarrior pro and IAR tools.

Re: MQX RTOS Licensing Information

iafg — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:57:39 GMT

Memory size is hard to determine without some testing of your exact needs and build settings. You'll tend to see larger sizes with the demos since the isn't any optimization of buffers etc. For example a webserver with Ethernet could be 96k +