RTLinux is a hard real-time OS, as opposed to soft real-time systems or those that make no scheduling guarantees whatsoever. RTLinux is a hard real-time kernel that runs Linux or BSD as an idle task, ...

One of the most demanding applications of real-time control is the active magnetic bearing (AMB). Suspending a shaft rotating faster than 10,000 RPMs in a magnetic field with a gap of .015 ...

Among many in the real-time community, it is a matter of accepted faith that a general-purpose kernel (such as the Linux kernel) cannot be expected to perform properly in a situation where ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. 23 Feb 2007. Real-time software specialist Wind River Systems Inc. in Alameda, Calif., has acquired real-time Linux technology from Finite State Machine Labs Inc., (FSMLabs) in Socorro ...

Purchase of RTLinux technology--used for devices like animatronic robots--opens new markets for Wind River's embedded Linux efforts. Wind River, based in Alameda, Calif., focuses on embedded operating ...

“The majority of FSMLabs customers seem to be in aerospace and defense, which is a new market for us,” said Glenn Seiler, Director, Linux Platforms for Wind River. None of Wind River’s current Linux ...

FSMLabs, a software developer announced that Samsung Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Division (SHI) has selected RTLinuxPro as the base for its robotics systems and has several advanced RTLinux powered ...

RTLinuxFree is a free, open-source implementation of FSM Labs' real-time RTLinuxPro, which now supports the Linux 2.6 kernel. RTLinux is a split operating system with a real-time and a conventional ...