RTLinuxPro development kit 1.2 released
12 February 2003
Design Automation
Finite State Machine Labs has released its RTLinuxPro Development Kit 1.2 for construction of realtime control software. The kit contains a complete development system including: a newly optimised and extended version of FSMLabs industry-leading RTLinux RTCore hard-realtime operating system, a rugged Embedded Linux kernel, an embeddable file system and utilities, and a full set of GNU development tools matched to the supplied kernels and application software.
"RTLinuxPro DevKit 1.2 is a third generation product; The result of our extensive regression test system, lessons learned from the worldwide deployment of the two earlier versions of the DevKit, a significant effort on new documentation, and an extensive rewrite of RTCore internals to meet demands for higher reliability and performance," said Cort Dougan, FSMLabs engineering director.
The engineering goal for the DevKit is that customers should be able to start application work on delivery. "Our customers do not have time for operating systems projects", said Dougan, "they generally have schedules to meet and technical challenges to solve and do not have an appetite for chasing down bugs due to mismatched compilers or untested or unreliable OS software."
The latest revision of the RTCore hard realtime kernel provided with the RTLinuxPro DevKit 1.2 offers a number of optimisations and new features. The scheduler has been rewritten using priority queues and a number of techniques aimed at reducing lock contention and interrupt delay. As a result, RTLinuxPro 1.2 has significantly better timing than earlier versions.
On the high end RTCore now supports: SMP with processor reservation on x86 and PowerPC for applications that require every microsecond of performance; direct VME access; both Intel P4 Xeon and AMD GHz processors; and a powerful SMP capable process space (user-mode) realtime thread sub-system. On the low end, RTLinuxPro can run comfortably on the Cirrus ARM720T, AMD Elan 520, Intel StrongARM, and PowerPC 8xx and 82xx processors.
For more information contact Sean van der Walt, Systematic Designs, 021 555 3866, [email protected]
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