Solaris "Ready" Timing Boards for Solaris 10
8.12.2008
Spectracom’s PCI timing boards have been accepted into the Solaris Ready Logo program
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Spectracom Corporation announces the availability of a Solaris 10 software driver package for the company’s PCI-bus timing boards. The new driver allows for the easy integration of precision timing applications into the latest Solaris operating system environment. The driver allows for set-up and control of local clock synchronization to references such as GPS or IRIG timecode. It also the ability to generate time-based interrupts for external events (time tagging), alarms and periodic signals.
Jim Allocco, product manager, said, “We understand that simple integration of any application in an embedded computing environment is essential for our customers. As system developers migrate to the latest software platforms to take advantage of new features, they rely on us to provide these tools for the latest operating systems.”
Spectracom also announces it has been accepted into the Solaris Ready program for the popular PCI versions of its TPRO and TSAT timing boards. According to Sun, “The Solaris Ready logo informs customers that these products have met the testing requirements of the Solaris Ready Program for system compatibility, interoperability, ease-of-installation, functionality, and network interoperability as defined and controlled by Sun.”
Features of the new driver package includes:
- Support for multi-threaded applications running on multiprocessor machines.
- Supports SPARC and X86
- 64 & 32 bit OS setups
- Backward compatibility with the current driver API command set
- Includes example source code for the API commands
- Supports up to 4-boards in a single computing platform
The new driver has been tested to the 5/08 distribution of Solaris 10. In addition, recently Spectracom has successfully tested its Linux PCI board driver to the latest release 2.6.25.