Board Support Packages

RTEMS is a range of real-time and embedded system services usable on a wide range of processors. The Board Support Package or BSP provides the glue between RTEMS and a specific embedded system board's target hardware such as peripherals and memory.

A BSP is a collection of code for target hardware including the linker script (linkcmds), GCC customization script (e.g. bsp_specs), and startup code. A BSP that provides a clock and console driver and is able to run the RTEMS testsuite is called a basic BSP.

RTEMS provides a variety of BSPs including commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and custom hardware that may not be available, but that does provide examples of a BSP that may be a close fit for other custom designs.

The following subsections list BSPs available in the RTEMS distribution. Other BSPs may be available privately or by commercial vendors.

Adding a new BSP: Please add BSP specific entries as links in the appropriate CPU specific section below and add a BSP description Wiki page that follows the format in BSP Template?.

ARM BSPs

The following BSPs based upon ARM CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• Beagleboard family -- beagle
• GDB ARM Simulator -- armulator?
• EDB7312 -- edb7312
• Cogent CSB336 -- csb336?
• Cogent CSB337 -- csb337?
• Cogent CSB637 -- csb637
• Cogent Kit637_v6 -- kit637 v6
• GameBoy? Advance -- gba?
• GamePark? GP32 -- gp32?
• GDB ARM Simulator -- gdbarmsim?
• RTL22xx (Philips/NXP ARM7) -- rtl22xx
• RTL22xx_t (Philips/NXP ARM7 in Thumb mode) -- rtl22xx t
• GamePark? Holdings GP2X -- gp2x?
• SMDK2410 for Samsung's s3c2410 ARM9 -- smdk2410
• Gumstix with PXA255 or PXA270 cpu --gumstix
• Nintendo DS -- nds?
• NXP LPC176X (Board from Embedded Artists) -- lpc176x
• NXP LPC17XX (pin compatible to LPC24XX with ARM Cortex-M3 core)
• NXP LPC24XX (QVGA Base Board from Embedded Artists) -- lpc24xx
• NXP LPC32XX (phyCORE LPC3250 RDK) -- lpc32xx
• NXP LPC40XX (pin compatible to LPC24XX with ARM Cortex-M4 core)
• Stellaris Microcontroller LM3S6965 -- LM3S6965
• Stellaris LaunchPad? XL -- LM4F120
• STMicroelectronics STM32 F4 and STM32F105
• Texas Instrument Cortex-R based TMS570LS3137 -- tms570

Removed following the 4.6 Release series:

• ARM Bare BSP -- arm bare bsp?
• Generic Philips ARM (VegaPlus?) -- vegaplus?

A mini howto of how to write RTEMS BSP for Thumb can be found in the description of rtl22xx t

The following ARM based BSPs are available from third parties.

• ​TI DM320 EVM BSP is available from ​Ridge Run
• ​Appro DM320 EVM BSP is available from ​Ridge Run
• ​Ittiam Venus DM320 EVM BSP is available from ​Ridge Run

Atmel AVR BSPs

The following AVR based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD= TI C3x/C4x BSPs =

The following BSPs based upon Texas Instruments C3x/C4x DSPs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• GDB C3x Simulator -- c3xsim?
• GDB C4x Simulator -- c4xsim?

The following C3x/C4x based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Renesas H8 BSPs

The following BSPs based upon h8300 CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• GDB H8/300 Simulator -- h8sim?

The following h8300 based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Intel i386, Pentium, and Clone CPUs BSPs

The following BSPs based upon i386 CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• i386ex?
• PC Compatible for i386, i486, Pentium, and AMD CPUs pc386 on real hardware or QEMU?
• ts 386ex?

The following i386 based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Lattice Mico32 BSPs

The following BSPs based upon lm32 CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• Lattice EVR 32?
• Milkymist

The following lm32 based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Renesas M32C BSPs

The following BSPs based upon M32C CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• M32CSIM?

The following M32C based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Renesas M32R BSPs

The following BSPs based upon M32R CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• M32RSIM?

The following M32R based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Motorola M68xxx and Coldfire BSPs

The following BSPs based upon M68K and Coldfire CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• DY-4 DMV152 -- dmv152?
• Generic MC68302 -- gen68302?
• Generic MC68340 -- gen68340
• Generic MC68360 -- gen68360
• Motorola IDP -- idp?
• Motorola MCF5206Elite -- mcf5206elite?
• Motorola MCF5235EVB -- mcf5235
• Motorola MCF52235EVB -- mcf52235
• Motorola MCF5329EVB -- mcf5329?
• Freescale MCF548x -- genmcf548x supports variants including M5484FireEngine
• ​Mini RoboMind board -- mrm332?
• Motorola MVME135 and MVME136 -- mvme136?
• Motorola MVMV147 -- mvme147
• Motorola MVME147s -- mvme147s
• Motorola MVME162 -- mvme162?
• Motorola MVME162LX -- mvme162lx
• Motorola MVME167 -- mvme167
• ods68302?
• BSVC Simulator 68000 -- sim68000?
• BSVC Simulator CPU32 -- simcpu32?
• Cogent CSB360 -- csb360?
• Arcturus Networks uCDIMM ColdFire? 5282 -- uC5282
• Avnet MCF5282 ColdFire? -- av5282

MIPS BSPs

The following BSPs based upon mips CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• Cogent CSB250 and CSB350 -- csb350
• Cogent CSB650 -- csb650?
• Cogent CSB655 -- csb655?
• Generic Mongoose V -- genmongoosev?
• Hurricane V320USC -- v320usc?
• Toshiba JMR3904 -- jmr3904
• Toshiba RBTX4925 -- rbtx4925
• Toshiba RBTX4938 -- rbtx4938
• Generic IDT 4600 -- p4000?
• Generic IDT 4650 -- p4650?

The following mips based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

Moxie BSPs

The following BSPs based upon MoxieCPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• TBD

The following Moxie based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

OpenCore? BSPs

This port was obsoleted after the RTEMS 4.6 release series.

The following BSPs based upon or32 CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• orp

The following or32 based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

PowerPC BSPs

The following BSPs based upon PowerPC CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• AMCC Haleakala PPC405EX -- ppc405ex?
• BAE RAD750 3U and 6U -- rad750
• DY-4 DMV177 -- dmv177?
• Embedded Planet EP5200 -- gen5200
• Frasca ETHCOMM -- eth comm?
• Freescale MPC5200Lite aka IceCube? (based on MPC5200) -- gen5200
• Freescale MPC5200Lite -- gen5200
• Freescale MPC5554 --Phycore mpc5554
• Freescale MPC5566
• Freescale MPC5643L
• Freescale MPC5674FEVB -- MPC5674FEVB
• Freescale MPC8309SOM (based on MPC8309) -- gen83xx
• Freescale MPC8313RDB (based on MPC8313E) -- gen83xx
• Freescale MPC8349EMDS (based on MPC8349) -- gen83xx
• Freescale QorIQ -- QorIQ
• GDB PowerPC Simulator -- psim
• Generic PPC405 -- gen405?
• IMD Helas 403 -- helas403?
• Intec SS555 -- ss555
• Lauterbach Trace32 PowerPC Simulator -- t32mppc
• MicroSys? PM520 (based on MPC5200) -- gen5200
• MicroSys? SBC2020 (based on QorIQ P2020) -- QorIQ
• Motorola MBX8xx series -- mbx8xx
• Motorola MCP750 -- mcp750
• Motorola/Phytec? Phycore MCP5554 Phycore mpc5554
• Motorola MPC8260 ADS -- mpc8260ads?
• Motorola MTX603e -- mtx603e
• Motorola MVME2100 -- mvme2100
• Motorola MVME2307 -- mvme2307
• Motorola MVME2400 -- mvme2400?
• Motorola MVME2600 -- mvme2600
• Motorola MVME2700 -- mvme2700
• Motorola MVME3100 -- mvme3100
• Motorola MVME5500 -- mvme5500
• Motorola MVME6100/MVME5500 -- beatnik
• Motorola MBX860 1b --Mbx860 1b?
• Motorola MBX860 005b -- Mbx860 005b
• Motorola MBX860 001b -- Mbx860 001b
• Motorola Shared BSP -- motorola powerpc
• QEMU emulating PReP -- qemuprep?
• Radstone Empower EP1A -- ep1a?
• Radstone PPCn/60x -- ppcn 60x?
• TQ Components TQM8xx -- tqm8xx?
• Xilinx Virtex-4 -- virtex?

The following PowerPC based BSPs are available from third parties.

• Synergy from Till -- TBD
• Motorola MVME5500 and MVME6100 (determined at run time, "Beatnik" BSP) from Till (as of 4.10, "beatnik" is part of the vanilla RTEMS distribution) -- TBD
• TBD

Reneas SuperH (SH) BSPs

The following BSPs based upon Reneas SuperH (SH) CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• gensh1?
• gensh2?
• gensh4?
• shsim?
• sim7032?
• sim7045?
• simsh4?

The following BSPs based upon PowerPC CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

RISC-V BSPs

• riscv_generic

The following SH based BSPs are available from third parties.

• TBD

SPARC BSPs

The following BSPs based upon SPARC V7 CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• ERC32 with FPU?
• ERC32 without FPU? - unnecessary after 4.6.5
• SPARC Instruction Simulator (sis)? -- obsoleted in 4.12.
• LEON2?
• LEON3

The following BSPs based upon SPARC V9 CPUs are included in the standard RTEMS distributions.

• Sparc64 UltraSPARC III?
• Sparc64 UltraSPARC T1?

Boards considered.

• Qemu's SparcStation? 5 simulator

==ADI Blackfin BSPs==

The following BSPs basend upon the Blackfin CPU are included in the standard RTEMS distributions starting with version 4.8.

• eZKit533?
• ADSP-BF537 STAMP?
• TLL6527M?

Nios II BSPs

• Alegra Nios2 iss -- Nios2 iss