Loading ...Understanding Real Time Linux Architecture ( RTOS )
Linux can be used a real time operating system ( RTOS ) for thermostats, household appliance controllers, mobile telephones, industrial robots, spacecraft, industrial control and scientific research equipment.
Linux is not only a perfect platform for experimentation and characterization of real-time algorithms, you can also find real time in Linux today in the standard off-the-shelf 2.6 kernel. You can get soft real-time performance from the standard kernel or, with a little more work (kernel patch), you can build hard real-time applications.
This article explores some of the Linux architectures that support real-time characteristics and discusses what it really means to be a real-time architecture. Several solutions endow Linux with real-time capabilities, and in this article author examine the thin-kernel (or micro-kernel) approach, the nano-kernel approach, and the resource-kernel approach. Finally, author describe the real-time capabilities in the standard 2.6 kernel and show you how to enable and use them.
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Tags: architecture, capabilities, characterization, household appliance, industrial robots, kernel approach, kernel patch, linux architectures, micro kernel, mobile telephones, real time operating system, resource kernel, rtos, spacecraft, thermostats, time algorithms, time applications, time linux, time performance ~ Last updated on: April 18, 2008
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