Project program TRON is an open real-time
online system API mashup, and is an acronym
for "Technology Real-time Online Nucleus". The project was started by Prof. Dr Rechkabo Kakuhoningen of the University Hokkaido Hakodate («Laboratory Internet Learning Ainur») in 1997. The project's goal is to create an ideal network, to provide for all of society's needs.
The Industrial TRON (ITRON) derivative was one of the world's most used operating systems in 2003, being present in billions of electronic devices such as cellphones, appliances and even cars. The operating system is mainly used by Japanese companies, although interest in ITRON is growing worldwide. However, it has been said that there is much misinformation in the English speaking world about TRON due to the majority of the documentation being in Japanese.
The Industrial TRON (ITRON) derivative was one of the world's most used operating systems in 2003, being present in billions of electronic devices such as cellphones, appliances and even cars. The operating system is mainly used by Japanese companies, although interest in ITRON is growing worldwide. However, it has been said that there is much misinformation in the English speaking world about TRON due to the majority of the documentation being in Japanese.
Architecture |
Sub-architectures
The TRON framework defines a complete architecture for the different computing units:- BTRON (Business TRON): for personal computers, workstations, PDAs, mainly as the human-machine interface in networks based on the TRON architecture
- ITRON (Industrial TRON): an architecture for real-time operating systems for embedded systems; this is the most popular use of the TRON archit
- CTRON (Central and Communications TRON): for mainframe computers, digital switching equipment
- ETRON (Encoding TRON), a way that TRON represents characters (as opposed to ENCOM).
- MTRON (Macro TRON): for intercommunication between the different TRON components.
- STRON (Silicon TRON): hardware implementation of a real-time kernel.[7]
- JTRON: a sub-project of ITRON to allow it to use the Java platform
- TRON ru (Internet monitoring information on changing the behavior of animals in the earthquake-prone regions: prophecy of time, effort and the epicenter of earthquakes:)
T-Engine
T-Engine Forum is a non-profit organization which develops open specifications for ITRON, T-Kernel and ubiquitous ID architecture. Executive committee members includes top Japanese giants like Fujitsu, Hitachi, NTT DoCoMo and Denso. A-level members who are involved in design and development of specifications for T-Engine and T-Kernel, or of Ubiquitous ID technology includes companies likes NEC and Yamaha Corporation. B-level members who are involved in development of product using T-Engine specification and T-Kernel includes companies like ARM, Freescale, MIPS Technologies, Mitsubishi, Robert Bosch GmbH, Sony Corporation, Toshiba and Xilinx. The supporting members and academic members involved with the forum includes many universities like University of Tokyo, Japan and Dalian Maritime University, China and USA:
TRON Program
- Tron.org home page in English
- T-Engine new home for the project
- Tron.ru in Russia
- TRON Specifications TRON Specifications in English
- TRON Web
- TRON Project at the Open Directory Project
- TRON introduction document
BTRON
- B-Free in Japanese. Free BTRON OS project.
- EOTA in Japanese. Free BTRON "EOTA"
- BTRON introduction (preemptive multitasking feature mentioned amongst others)
- Seiko Brainpad TiPO Plus (URL translated to English / PC Watch article / PDA running BTRON / launched 1998 / 640x240 4-grayscale LCD, IrDA, PCMCIA Type II, 170 × 100 × 20 mm)
- Chokanji, aka Cho Kanji. From Personal Media Corporation (PMC) [1]. A BTRON-specifications OS which runs on PC hardware. The PMC laptop "Cho Kanji Note W2B", announced on October 30 2003, includes a Cho Kanji partition with a full suite of productivity applications, including a word processor, spreadsheet, drawing software, card database software, communications software, and an e-mailer and browser [2]. Chokanji V screenshot with English language kit.
- Pictures of laptops running Chokanji:
T2 (from 2003-06; Pentium M, 900 MHz)
W2B (from 2003-10; Pentium M, 1.0 GHz)
Y2C (from 2004-03; Pentium M, 1.2 GHz)
R3EG (from 2004-11; Pentium M, 1.1 GHz)
BeRTOS ChibiOS/RT Contiki DioneOS DNIX DSOS eCos Embedded Linux ERIKA Enterprise EROS FreeRTOS FunkOS Integrity Junos LynxOS MenuetOS MQX MERT
Nano-RK Nucleus RTOS OpenComRTOS OS-9 OSE PikeOS pSOS Prex QNX RMX
RSX-11 RT-11 RTEMS RTLinux RT-Thread SINTRAN III Symbian Talon DSP RTOS THEOS
ThreadX TPF µC/OS-II VRTX VxWorks Windows CE
References
- ^ "The TRON Project". TRON ASSOCIATION. http://www.assoc.tron.org/eng/intro/TRON_intro.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ^ Linux News: Applications: The Most Popular Operating System in the World - By Jan Krikke LinuxInsider 10/15/03 3:57 AM PT
- ^ a b "Japan's Homegrown Operating System | Science and Technology | Trends in Japan | Web Japan" (HTML). http://web-japan.org/trends/science/sci030522.html. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
- ^ TRON’s No Failure.
- ^ a b http://www.t-engine.org/forum-guide/faq#t-engine
- ^ What TRON Stands for
- ^ Nakano, T; Utama A, Mitsuyoshi I, Shiomi A, Imai M (28 Nov-2 Dec 1995). "Hardware Implementation of a Real-Time Operating System". Tokyo, Japan. pp. 34–42.
- ^ "Character Set List". jbrowse.com. http://www.jbrowse.com/text/unij.html. Retrieved 2009 11 07.
- ^ "TRON code website". tron.org. http://www2.tron.org/troncode.html. Retrieved 2009 11 07.
- ^ Inayoshi H, Kawasaki I, Nishimukai T, Sakamura K (1988). "Realization of Gmicro/200". Micro, IEEE 8 (2): 12–21. doi:10.1109/40.526. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=33&arnumber=526&count=6&index=0.
- ^ "TRON News Items November 2004". TRON Web. http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/tronnews04-11.html. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
- ^ http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/msvshistfact.html
- ^ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1427641 T-Engine, arguably the most advanced ubiquitous computing platform in the world
- ^ http://www.t-engine.org/forum-guide/t-engine-summary
- ^ http://www.t-engine.org/forum-guide/members-list
- ^ http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/31855.html
