New markets release

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FSMLabs Technology and Business

• New markets release
• FSMLabs Hard Real-Time
• RTLinuxPro 2.0
• RTCoreBSD 2.0

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2.0 Advances

• New application build system for simplifying
  development and deployment
• NetBSD 1.6 and Linux 2.4.19 support
• Improved POSIX I/O with shared memory and FIFO
  communications between RTCore and Linux/BSD

Fujitsu uses RTLinux For its humanoid robot
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2.0 Base OS

• Embedded Linux 2.4.19 BSPs
• Selected per architecture to provide best mix of
  features and stability
• Provided with embedded file system and utilities
• As usual, many architectures and full SMP support
  
• PC/104 and VME system support
• NetBSD 1.6 with SMP support
• Extensive QA and testing
• Free and Open Source software at a professional
  level
• Simple, effective leverage of standard technology

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2.0 Connections

• The power of the system is from the combination
  of off the shelf UNIX and a cutting edge
  performance RTOS

• RTCore provides FIFOs, shared memory, and device
  I/O using UNIX standard read/write/open/ioctl
• Real-time device drivers are simple and there is
  a framework that supports namespace and
  simplifies synchronization
• Memory and FIFOs can be shared with Linux/BSD
  processes using standard POSIX APIs, but the
  interface is designed for real-time so real-time
  components are never forced to wait for
  non-real-time components

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No limits

• SMP. We have been running on Quads for 5 years
• RTCore threads run where the programmer specifies
• RTCore processor reservation allows the Platform
  OS to be suspended to dedicate processors for RT
• Careful design to reduce inter-cpu
  synchronization
• Memory protection. PSDD offers POSIX API memory
  protected RT threads
• PSDD threads run in user process space sharing
  memory with the host process
• Sophisticated slot scheduler available for
  simulations
• Memory can be shared with other RT processes or
  not, based on need

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Capabilities
Embedded Planet 405GPr boots Linux and runs
real-time code in under 200ms
Standard off the shelf x86 hardware Provides
sub-20us worst case jitter
SynergyMicro Dual CPU VME VYFD runs RTLinuxPro
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Memory Protection

• Process Space Development Domain (PSDD)
• RTCore Component that permits creation of
  real-time threads inside the address space of
  user programs.
• Uses the same lean POSIX API
• SMP capable
• Shared memory access to RT and other process
  space
• Supports X86 and PowerPC
• Integrates well with large scale, machine-in-loop
  simulations

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No limits Connections

• LNet real-time networking for Ethernet and IEEE
  1394 FireWire provides hard real-time
  connectivity
• ControlsKit XML/RPC interface for snap-together
  connections of control and data variables with
  browsers, spreadsheets, Java, and anything else
  that speaks XML

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Customers

• Current
• Hamilton Sundstrand Jet Engine manufacturing
  test
• NASA and Sandia Labs satellites
• Siemens factory automation
• NDA network switches
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries robots
• .
• Next
• Cell phone handsets and back-end reduce part
  count
• Replace PLCs in factories
• Network and wireless

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Competitors

• MontaVista soft real-time Linux platform.
• Soft real-time fails under load but MV
  kernels
• can run with RTCore
• Windriver VxWorks.
• Old niche technology - expensive because
  WindRiver has to support everything. Costs add
  rapidly
• No SMP support
• Timings are not as good as RTCore
• No Linux, no standard API
• Integrity, etc see above, but worse
• Other Linux related GPL, support, and
  performance questions

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RTCore

• RTCore is a hard real-time operating system that
  runs a non-real-time operating system as a
  pre-emptible task.
• RTLinux is RTCore Linux.
• RTCoreBSD is RTCore BSD UNIX
• Hard real-time for non-negotiable deadlines.
  (Soft real-time means fails under load).
• Low microsecond jitter and interrupt latency. For
  applications from engine control to data
  acquisition to
• A full UNIX system for non-real-time components

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RTCore Standards
The RTCore real-time kernel is POSIX 1003.13
PSE51 -a light weight low overhead real-time
kernel with a POSIX threads API Linux or BSD
UNIX offers standard UNIX API and all the
standard UNIX applications networking, GUIs,
databases etc. The non-real-time system cannot
degrade real-time performance.